Something for your sweet tooth

Something for your sweet tooth

Doughnuts anyone? And while you’re dunkin’ one in your morning coffee, you can contemplate how the hole came to be in the middle…because it wasn’t always that way.

The story of what might seem to be about a contemporary confection actually had ancient beginnings, but we’re just going to cut to the chase

What are your three favorite logos?

What are your three favorite logos?

We may not know that logos had their beginning in 1870. Yet, more than a century later, we do know the power of logos to influence buying decisions, and that companies spend billions to promote them.

In the book, Logo Beginnings, Jens Miller details a study of nearly 10,000 logos.

Creative approach to creativity training

Creative approach to creativity training

Can adults learn how to be creative? Yes, claim researchers, especially since children reportedly lose their creativity after four or five years of schooling when educational instruction focuses more on logic, semantics and memory training.

Until recently, creativity training employed a 1950s technique known as divergent thinking—a “computational approach”

Seeds have a history

Seeds have a history

Today’s tale is a shout out to spring and what’s behind those green shoots and budding flowers, which at one time or another began with a seed. When we did some digging around, we found some dazzling “dirt” about how long seeds can do nothing before doing something.