by admin | Feb 12, 2010 | Catalyst Ranch, Creativity
Stop Playing with Legos and Put them to Work in the Kitchen The next time you run out of ideas of what to build with your Legos and have a few extra hours to kill, why don’t you just turn them into a kitchen island and be the envy of all your friends and neighbors?...
by admin | Feb 10, 2010 | Catalyst Ranch, Entrepreneurs, Interviews
Our friend Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts was interviewed recently in Crain’s Enterprise City Blog. Lisa has taken a different perspective on applied creativity by starting the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship. The “starving artist” stereotype thrives even...
by admin | Feb 5, 2010 | Creativity, Innovation, Interviews
Name: Rick Gurolnick Company: Neotoy Area of Expertise: Design, Invention, New Product Concepts and Markets, Kid Marketing What sparks your creativity? Seeing a great example of Art or Design. For example, look at this great photography of an off road race in South...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | Catalyst Ranch, Creativity
Gabriel Orozco, one of Mexico’s most famous contemporary artists, is a man after my own heart. He brings recycling to a new level of artistry, taking mundane objects and playing with how you now see them. Might be a good trick to apply to your daily tasks. Maybe do...
by admin | Jan 29, 2010 | Catalyst Ranch
If you’re looking for inspiration this weekend (or any weekend for that matter) and feel too intimated to walk into a gallery all on your lonesome, here’s a great opportunity to feel like an insider. The Chicago Art Dealers’ Association (http://chicagoartdealers.org)...