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A collection of 15 inspirational books on Creativity by the people behind the 99 percent (perspiration, 1% inspiration) conference. - Rick van der Wal

A glance at creativity on the whole, creativity in relation to design by Industrial Designer D.T (The Design Translator) - Rick van der Wal

When almost any fact, no matter how obscure, can be dug up within seconds through Google and Wikipedia, there is less value attached to the "mere" storage and retrieval of knowledge. What becomes important is how you use it – the internet age rewards creativity. - Rick van der Wal

Amazing Data visualization set by Good Magazine. Great colorful illustrations that tell the story of its data convincingly. - Rick van der Wal

A white paper presenting cases of the Design Thinking theory. Ideation, implementation and execution in some of the most inspiring third world projects. - Rick van der Wal

A white paper presenting cases of the Design Thinking theory. Ideation, implementation and execution in some of the most inspiring third world projects. - Rick van der Wal

Bad Design: Hindi Traffic Directions - Rick van der Wal

A Fastcompany Video about thoughts on design and innovation by Top Designers from around the world. - Rick van der Wal

post through ping.fm? - Mitchell McKenna

Posting could easily be done through friendfeed. Twhirl or any other desktop client might get past the blockade as well. Twitterfall could be another option to see or follow twitter conversations - Rick van der Wal

Agreed 100% with your comment. Most of all how simplicity is hard to sell - or more relevant for my position - teach. Most students seem to be looking for a 'catch', some new language or at least some fancy words to take things seriously. After 4 weeks that attitude changes from sceptic to the feeling they are learning something they can actually apply - and start applying more naturally, instead of a new 'shortcut to creativity' that just adds definitions and frameworks. - Rick van der Wal

In depth article on how the future of Design Thinking Depends on our ability to learn from previous 'Thinking Frameworks' such as Systems Thinking. - Rick van der Wal

A great article on the mixture of science and design. Intelligent signage, data visualization and inspring graphs. - Rick van der Wal

Now, the blogosphere does not take so kindly to provocations like that, and it didn't take long for online critics to compare my words with those of one of my Hollywood predecessors, H.W. Warner, who famously said, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - Rick van der Wal

An essay which argues that essentially the same cognitive resources are shared by adult creative thinking and problem-solving, on the one hand, and by childhood pretend play and on the other hand. - Rick van der Wal

Allison Arieff of the NYTimes.com explores ways to generate new ideas, and finding inspiration in outrageous dreams and ideas by remarkable inventors. - Rick van der Wal

HBS Working Knowledge explains why it is important to design a better, more creative and innovative corporate culture. - Rick van der Wal

Human-centered design is fantastic, designers all agree. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread and it will make the world a better place. At least, that’s what we designers like to think is the result of our work... - Rick van der Wal

The site creates stickyness and flow through a great combination of sound and flow. Their real follows the same upbeat phase. - Rick van der Wal

An interesting hand out by Cameron Moll on the difference between Good design and Great Design, influence, inspiration and problem solving. - Rick van der Wal

The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and around and around and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun - for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question; is this real? Or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, and they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because... this is just a ride." - Rick van der Wal

Changing education and using the internet and it's ubiquitous connectivity and very low cost of content production and distribution to rethinking the way we teach and learn. - Rick van der Wal

An online Art Gallery showing great design of years past - Rick van der Wal

The original 'Mr. Big Idea' - the man who turned advertising into art and art into advertising. - Rick van der Wal

Design Observer looks at the art of 'hollywood' one-liners, their history and their ability to communicate an idea effectively. - Rick van der Wal

The “dismal science” truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-divided world into a community of idea-sharing more healthy, happy and prosperous than anyone’s predictions. - Rick van der Wal

Cisco predicts the Future of Collaboration. This is rule number 2: Ultimately User Experience is what matters. - Rick van der Wal

IDEO Tim Brown talks about the next big wave of innovation in business in society: Participation. - Rick van der Wal

Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another - Rick van der Wal

You could have been recommended worse books ;) Thought it was very decent - motivational to go out there and do 'something' at the very least :) - Rick van der Wal

Guy Kawasaki, in his usual 10 point interview format, talks with Hartmut Esslinger founder of frog design and someone BusinessWeek calls “the most influential American industrial designer since the 1930s”. - Rick van der Wal

Davison Creators interviews Arne van Oosterom, author of the blog that accomapnies design Thinkers. - Rick van der Wal