J399 Creativity & Content

J399 Creativity & Content is a new class, taught by Professor Deborah Morrison, at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism Communication. Here you will find books and links covered in class and a few things I think are cool. Enjoy.

From the syllabus: "The purpose of this class is twofold: first, to make your creative process more easily understood and accessible in a professional context; and, second, to identify best practices for the creation of smart content in a varied world of media and messages. It is a course dedicated to experimentation, professional standards, and cross-discipline thinking."

Morrison is the Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising at the School of Journalism + Communication. She teaches conceptual thinking, creativity and content, portfolio, and campaigns courses from a social responsibility perspective. Prior to the University of Oregon, she was the leader of Texas Creative at the University of Texas at Austin for 18 years.

Student Content

Lennon Bergland's Film: To the Bayou and Back: A film about New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina

If you missed it at the Bijou Guerilla Film Festival on November 10, 11, 12 (Fri., Sat., Sun.) at 11:35 p.m., now you can watch it here.
Pushpin Project: Here's a link to Nicole and Andrea's class project. They started with one pushpin...
Sam Karp's blog: How do sounds, words and pictures form YOUR reality?
Joseph Leary's blog: Regret is for Smart People: The permanent revolution of an advertising student's worldview.
Matt Heath's blog: Feeding Friendsy
A. Cody Osborne's Blog: TimeIsChanging
Winter Gibbs' Blog: Observations

Creativity Links

Second Story: Producers of interactive content for the Web and other digital media. Topics include adventure travel, science, history, arts, human interest stories. "A gogeous content provider with an int'l reputation. Located in Portland." --Deborah Morrison
Emigre: Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh.
Dan Eldon: A young photojournalist / journaler is killed in Somalia. What's left are his powerful journals. Extraordinary content.
Converse Gallery: "Not pushing consumption of more athletic shoes. I am pushing the glorious use of storytelling as part of this brand. Their archive of great ideas is worth reviewing." --Deborah Morrison
The Katalyst Consultancy: Kevin Carroll is the founder of The Katalyst Consultancy and the author of Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work.
Arkitip: "Booklets + Beautiful Printed Matter. Gorgeous small books and ideas." --Deborah Morrison
HunterGatherer: The studio and workshop of designer, animator and filmmaker Todd St. John. Founded in New York in 2000. Check out "NIKE CONSIDERED"
Visual Thesaurus: An interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning.
zefrank.com: "A weird and wonderful blog. Explore." --Deborah Morrison
Do schools today kill creativity?: Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. Robinson is author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative." (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:03)
Cool Tool: Histomap of World History: I came across this the other day. Very cool. "Not a map really, but a 5-foot-high chart showing in one glance 4,000 years of human history on a global scale." --Kevin Kelly
The really small screen -- cell phone movies - CNN.com: Students make a movie using cell phone cameras as part of a new film class at Boston University.
ChangeThis :: The Creative Generalist: People today are raised to be niche thinkers. We're all specialists in particular subject matters. We need to return to thinking more broadly to generate big ideas. Download Steve Hardy's manifesto.
The Ad Feed: An aggregator for all the latest news and creative in the ad industry and on advertising blogs.
VVORK: Interesting artwork, check it out.