Open Design
May 16, 2017
Love them or hate them most businesses have a tag line of some description or another.
When we set up The imagination Factory we did our best to avoid having one. But people kept asking what single phrase summed up what we are about. So in the end we relented and spent som...
How to avoid looking like a plonkAR
February 1, 2017
Dave Lee, the BBC's North America technology reporter pronounced 3DTV as finally dead this week. This followed reports from LG and Sony who have stopped making 3D TVs hot on the heels of Samsung who made the move last year.
What's interesting about the report is the analysi...
Why we Love to Hate Innovation
January 27, 2017
Innovation is one of those divisive buzz-words that you either love, hate or love to hate. You can't get far nowadays without some mention of innovation whether it's on an advert on the side of a bus or used in the headline for a conference.
Businesses, governments & e...
A Better Way to Innovate
January 27, 2017
In another article we looked at why innovation can be a dirty word for businesses. Doing something new involves high levels of risk and the impact is not always easy to measure. But most people accept that to succeed they need to embrace innovation in one way or another.
S...
What do you do on Fridays?
January 23, 2017
Here at The Imagination Factory we have always believed that creative people don't switch that part of their brains on and off, when they are in and out of a formal work environment.
Many of our team's best ideas come to them at moments walking down the street or chatting ...
10 Tips for Having Great Ideas - #4 Think Visually
September 6, 2016
Someone recently asked us how the design team at The Imagination Factory approaches repeatable idea generation in the projects we work on. It made us stop and think and we ended up with a list of 10 top tips for having great ideas which we thought might be useful to share....
Someone recently asked us how the design team at The Imagination Factory approaches repeatable idea generation in the projects we work on. It made us stop and think and we ended up with a list of 10 top tips for having great ideas which we thought might be useful to share....
10 Tips for Having Great Ideas - #1 Framing the Problem
September 6, 2016
Someone recently asked us how the design team at The Imagination Factory approaches repeatable idea generation in the projects we work on. It made us stop and think and we ended up with a list of 10 top tips for having great ideas which we thought might be useful to share.
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Tools of the Trade #1
January 18, 2016
In this series of blogs we look at some of the tools we use at The Imagination Factory.
The landscape of software and hardware available to today's design studios has changed dramatically in recent years. With a little bit of effort to discover and learn these tools designer...
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