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Breakaway Digital

Random thoughts and inspirations by Damian Rintelmann

Tag archive for ‘Creativity’

A more productive brainstorm(0)

Brainstorms are key to the creative process. The problem is that they can also put a huge fat creativity block on your process if you aren’t careful. I wanted to share some ideas on having a better brainstorming session.
A brainstorm can be just a one person party, but I’ve found that the best ideas just [...]

Big ideas squashed by legal?(3)

Have you ever had a great idea for a client, only to have it crushed by the brands legal team? Yeah me too. In the digital space things are moving so quickly the law has had a very hard time keeping up with everything. You can see it all over the place one of the [...]

Lifestreaming is it the new blog platform?(1)

One of my favorite bloggers from the far east just had a great presentation on lifestreaming. I have been toying with new ways of blogging over the past year and his speech came a perfect time to get me to write this post. So that brings me to lifestreaming. What is it?

Well the all knowing [...]

Crowdfire - Does it actually add any value to the event?(3)

More often we are seeing that live events are trying to pull the crowd into the excitement by using user generated content. It makes sense that the crowd should be included but does it add any true value to the event?

Crowdfire is trying something new. If you haven’t hear of it here is a little [...]

Interactive TV shows, is this where reality TV is going?(1)

I’ve been recently fascinated by TV shows using interactive strategies. For the past few years the studios have been experimenting with extending the shows online. One of the best examples was Heroes, and how they made the plot extend well beyond the broadcast TV show.

Recently there was a Food Network show called Ask Aida. The [...]

America is F*cked - Graphically(0)

America Is F*cked…….(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.
This is a great video about 50’s style signs being replaced by crappy gradient signs. I have always admired Aaron as a designer because his style is heavily influenced by typography and signage of years past. He really has a pulse on designs that influenced modern [...]