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Friday
Jan272012

Getting Ready for the Girl Effect

In early February, Alphachimp's Creative Director, Peter Durand, will be traveling to Kenya to participate in the PopTech Climate Resilience Lab.

For many of the world’s poorest communities, the adverse effects of climate change are no longer a future possibility; they are a present reality. The poverty, dislocation, health crises, resource conflicts, food scarcity and economic harm that climate change engenders threaten to undo many of the humanitarian gains of the past 30 years.

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Monday
Jan232012

Doodles Take Over ScienceOnline12 #sciencescribe 

Hello everyone, it's Perrin Ireland reporting back from my recent trip to Raleigh, North Carolina, for the ScienceOnline2012 Conference.

Journalists, bloggers, scientists, science artists, advocates of open science, librarians, data specialists, and everyone in between showed up for the seventh year of this event. It's a really great community of people who support each other's work online disseminating high quality scientific information and commentary.

For this year's conference, I helped contribute part of the visual presence at the conference.

 

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Wednesday
Jan042012

Become a Rockstar Scribe: New Group Begins Jan. 15th

The Course | Top 10 Reasons | Student Testimonials

 

Registered students can get started here.

Tuesday
Nov292011

Creative People Must Be Stopped! 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)

In partnership with the cartoonist, Lloyd Dangle, we produced this Doodles in Motion video for our good friend, Prof. David Owens, as part of his book launch.

Book CoverEverybody Wants Innovation—Or Do They?  Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks.

The author's model of constraints on innovation integrates insights from the vast literature on innovation with his own observations of hundreds of organizations. The book is filled with assessments, tools, and real-world examples.

  • The author's research has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on Fox News and on NPR's Marketplace.
  • Includes illustrative examples from leading organizations.
  • Offers a practical guide for bringing new ideas to fruition even within a previously rigid organizational culture.

This book gives people in organizations the conceptual framework and practical information they need to innovate successfully.

Publisher:  Jossey-Bass / Wiley

more:  http://creativepeoplemustbestopped.com

Wednesday
Nov232011

Student Movies & Studio Move

The participants in our six-month intermediate course, That Creative Space, have been designing, filming, editing and uploading fabulous introduction videos, ranging from straight talk to their laptop camera to full-blown productions with animation and special effects.

Esther in Norway wins the Alphachimp Academy Award for her interpretation of Braveheart, painting her face with pastels as she prepares for a scribe battle!

We have loved watching them all and finally had a chance today to sit down and comment on most of them. 

Here are some "behind the scenes" of the last two weeks here at Alphachimp Studio:

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Friday
Nov182011

Animated Postcard from IFVP Aloha 2011

In October, Alphachimp Studio Managing Director, Diane Durand, traveled to Hawaii to attend the annual conference of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP.org).

This is her animated postcard created with an iPad and the application Brushes.

Music composed and performed by Don Henry.

Thursday
Oct272011

That Creative Space: An Intermediate Course for Graphic Facilitators

NOW ENROLLING STUDENTS...

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Thursday
Oct202011

PopTech 2011: A World Rebalancing

We are in the midst of a great realignment – a series of connected and converging revolutions in technology, economics, ecology, energy, geopolitics and culture that mark the end of one global era and the beginning of another. The world is rebalancing.

View all 2011 PopTech Art by Peter Durand & Perrin Ireland

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Sunday
Oct162011

2011 PopTech Social Innovation Fellows

My favorite time of year... at my favorite event of the year... with my favorite group of young entrepreneurs: The PopTech Social Innovation Fellows.

This program helps equip these world-changing innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social network that can help them scale their impacts to new heights. They are exposed to leading experts in communication, presentation design, design research, fundraising, operations and organizational design.

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Friday
Oct072011

Cogeco Dangles from the Cloud

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Alphachimp graphic recorder and cartoonist, Lloyd Dangle, produced this fun information graphic describing Cogeco Data Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Canadian company, Cogeco Cable Inc.

The larger image was produced to announce the expansion of their cloud computing services:

To meet the growing demand for managed information technology services and support for cloud computing initiatives, Cogeco Data Services (CDS) is increasing its data centre space across the Greater Toronto Area, Barrie, Oakville and Vancouver to more than 100,000 square feet – almost two football fields. The Company is also offering a suite of managed IT solutions to help organizations deal with their increasingly complex and demanding data needs.

They apparently liked it so much, it is now headlining the company's website!