I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. HAL: 2001: A Space Odyssey Last week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on the Congressional hot seat, answering questions related to the
By: Richard Quinlan Have you been tasked with marketing your company? Or a promoting a project /service / innovation? Wondering how to tell your story in a persuasive way? Should you create a big campaign, build assets, produce a series of TV commercials, launch with a
It has been a busy and fun year at Q, but sometimes you need to recharge the creative batteries, so I booked off a couple of weeks in June (our slow period) and headed to Europe. Just me, a carry-on backpack, my pocket camera and a
Design is changing. Today, design is less about creating “stuff”, and more about solving problems. After all, designing all that “stuff” is leading to one of our biggest problems: an unsustainable planet. So the question is, how can designers be part of the solution, and
My wife laughed at me. Why? Well, I’d mentioned reading an article online about an animation company then I went to another newspaper site and found an ad for that same animation company in the side bar. "Wow," I thought out loud, "what serendipity." That's when she
Just over 3 years ago, Andrew Park and his animation company Cognitive Media took a popular lecture by TED Talk superstar, Sir Ken Robinson and added drawings to the talk to illustrate his ideas on education. Park was a fellow of the RSA or Royal
“We want to produce a video, but we have a small budget.” If you’re a video producer, you hear this a lot. This need has given rise to a new kind of production model, a one-man-band approach. Typically it’s a young, fresh out-of-school film graduate. The one-man-band
When I was 11, my friends and I were obsessed with building model cars. Yes, we were total geeks. There was nothing like saving up to get a cool Mustang model, a box filled with hundreds of plastic parts that you’d paint and glue together. But
Malcolm Gladwell’s Rule In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell holds up the 10,000 Hour Rule as the bar of entry to mastery of any task. He cites the Beatles 1,200 sets in Hamburg before they hit it big and Bill Gates' early
Updated in 2018 If you want to drive a video producer crazy - ask them how much a video costs to produce. Video Costs: A Brief History Despite changes in technology, professional video production costs have held fairly steady for the past 25 years. In 1990, a professional