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Rethinking Brainstorming: Imagineering Ideas from Disney

Second Wind
6/20/2024


Have your agency’s brainstorming sessions been less than fruitful lately? If so, you might want to rethink the way you are conducting them. One of the most successful techniques ...

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The Virtual Canvas: Effective Brainstorming for Creative Teams

Laurie Mikes
4/18/2024


In an era where virtual work environments have become the norm, smaller advertising agency creative teams are adapting their collaborative processes to thrive in this digital landscape. The challenge lies ...

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Account Execs Can Help Improve the Creative Process

Account Execs Can Help Improve the Creative Process

Second Wind
7/18/2023

A survey by Hightail, a creative collaboration company, asked creative professionals about the effectiveness of the creative process. Just 23 percent said the process was effective. Twenty-eight percent called it ...

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Your Creative Mandate

Second Wind
12/16/2021

Over many years, we’ve advised our Second Wind member agencies to become more consultative, and to position their firms as strategic marketing partners with their clients. So, it may ...

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Work When You Feel Like Working

George Fuller
8/16/2021

The first art director I ever worked with was a most accomplished slacker. In the morning, he would drift in well after everyone else, drop by his office and drop ...

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Five Ways to Improve Agency Productivity

Beth James
6/4/2021

In terms of employee productivity, today’s rapidly evolving technologies are a two-edged sword. Faster, multi-functional mobile phones, tablets and pcs, continual software upgrades for everything from digital art to ...

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Creative Chaos Theory

Creative Chaos Theory

Deborah Budd
3/11/2021

Scientists once believed that events or occurrences in nature were predictable or able to  be mathematically calculated and predicted. Then along came chaos theory, proposing that many events are, in ...

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