There are many creative job opportunities in Toronto and the GTA this month. In the second edition of 5/5 by-weekly posts I share the best 25 jobs I’ve found in 5 specific areas: senior creative, design, web development, marketing, and communications. Senior Creative Creative Continuity Administrator – Corus Entertainment Art & Implementation Director – The People Bank Associate Art Director (GAM) – CTV Globemedia Inc Senior Project Manager – Interactive – Henderson Bas Print and Interactive Multi-media Production Manager – [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Groupthink is when a group of people are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group and their striving for unanimity overrides their motivation to discuss alternative options. The term was coined by psychologist Irving Janis in the 70s. When the cohesiveness is high, close-knit groups try to minimize conflict to reach consensus and may take inferior decisions that kill imagination. Groups are highly selective when examining information and fail to seek expert opinion. Members of the group avoid promoting viewpoints outside [...]
Categories: blog post, communication, creativity
Inflation is a progressive increase in prices where everything becomes more valuable except money. Due to inflation, what you could buy for $10 in 2000 would cost you approximately $12.67 today. The price of some products, however, has not kept up with inflation; and in some cases, they are even cheaper today compared with their 2000 price adjusted for inflation through 2010. WalletPop uncovered some of these anti-inflation gems and Mint.com presented the top items from their list on this [...]
Categories: blog post, infographic
The iPhone is arguably Apple’s biggest success story. There is staggering variety of apps available resulting in more than 5 billion downloads. With such a wide range of apps, whatever you’re looking for, chances are that there is already an app for that. While most of us visit Apple’s iTunes store to download free or cheap (think $0.99) apps and games, there are some high-dollar apps available. Check the top ten most expensive iPhone apps: 10. Proloquo2Go – $189.99 Proloquo2Go™ [...]
Coming across many creative job opportunities in Toronto and the GTA, gave me the idea of starting 5/5 by-weekly posts to share the best 5 jobs I’ve found in 5 specific areas: senior creative, design, web development, marketing, and communications. Senior Creative Creative Services Manager, Henderson BAS Art Director (Interactive/Digital), AltisHR Director, Creative Media Solutions, Cineplex Media Creative Lead, Totem Communications Group Ltd. Artistic Director – Animation, Ubisoft Entertainment Design Web Designer, I Love Rewards Designer, Marketing & eCommerce, University [...]
Merging ideas (also called forced connections) is a technique for inspiring creativity, built on associational thinking, by presenting the mind with two or more seemingly unrelated ideas. Association of terms and concepts can stimulate your brain’s responses for generating ideas because the mind makes spontaneous connections between the terms, and in turn expands our perspectives. The forced connections technique has made many people rich. Kinder Surprise chocolate egg is an example of merging ideas. It combines two treats that children [...]
Categories: blog post, creativity
