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Antwon Davis is the Founder and Chief Creative Nerd at 4th Park Studios (http://4thpark.com), a small creative agency that specializes in design thinking. He's a lover of all things Starbucks & Apple who is insanely passionate about making ideas happen. His curiosity, exploration and passion for creative adventure makes him one of the most dynamic young thinkers around. If he's is not flushing out a new idea, you can find him designing for the web, compelling people to live their dreams or having a rich caramel machiato at a local Starbucks.

*Making Ideas Happen* [the book]

Scott Belsky, an amazing thinker, writer and the founder of Behance, LLC., has pieced together a masterpiece centering around the topic of ‘making ideas happen’. Scott is known for his ideas on productivity. He’s so passionate about the topic that he created a company around helping creative professionals be more productive. One of his strongest arguments is that most people are great at generating and creating ideas, but most lack the capacity to actually make those ideas happen.

In his latest book titled “Making Ideas Happen”, Scott unpacks what he believes to be some of the most helpful steps on increasing productivity. He bases the book on key insights that he has gathered and implemented over the years from various successful leaders, professionals, and creatives.

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Google Introduces The *Fiber*

Google is taking over the world! We should all be afraid! lol.

As funny as it may sound, some of it is true. Starting as a simple search engine, Google has transformed into an empire with market-share in industries from mobile phones, web searching, maps, email, and now a global broadband.

Just recently, Google has launched a new experiment called “Google Fiber”.

We’re all familiar with high-speed internet , Broadband, 3G and 4G internet speed, etc. And most of us would consider most of these to be pretty fast.

Google begs to differ.

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Design Thinking & The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers

I’m a dancer.

Not to sure if any of you know this (lol).

Before I delved into graphic design, web design, and social media, dancing was my passion. It still is, but not to the extent that it used to be. From an early childhood, I’ve always had a massive fascination with the convergence of dance and design – the art of human expression through motions.

My journey as a dancer began as I sat in front of a tv screen, amazed at the human defiance of motion expressed by Michael Jackson. He was indeed a Design Thinker. He had an ability to design motions in such a way that it not only captivated an audience, but told a story. His story. Our story. Beyond mere performance, Michael Jackson had a unique gift that I think remains misunderstood by those who are not dancers.

I’ve seen hundreds of teams perform in my lifetime. I’ve performed in various arenas as well. But there is always a deeper yearning for the authentic expression of the art of dance that I think has been missing. Originality. Uniqueness. Remarkable. Defiance. Honestly, I feel that way about everything. lol.

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Design Thinking Meets the Business Card

I came across this amazingly cool company called Cardnetics while reading an article of Entrepreneur Magazine. This unique idea is the product of Bryce Bell, a Mechanical Engineer from Oklahoma.

Here’s a little snippet about the product from his website:

It started as just a fun project when I designed and built the Cardapult mainly just to see if it could be done. People seemed to like the card quite a bit and I liked the idea of designing similar cards, so I refined the build process as much as possible with my limited budget to see if people would actually buy enough of these cards to support a business. Right now it is a one man operation.

The idea behind the cards is this: People will keep the cards around for their utility or entertainment value even if they don’t need your products or services right away, and your name will be more accessible when you are needed.

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