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Understanding Innovation History
The Gold Mine Between Your Ears by Alex Osborn is among numerous early applied creativity documents in the Humantific Innovation Collection. Published circa 1954-55 this now hard to find 21 page booklet documents the early applied creativity self-help approach by Osborn … Continue reading
ReAppreciating Mathematica
Among the historical visual sensemaking work that inspires Humantific is the astonishing output of the Eames Office. Pictured is the cover and inside images of a rare explanation booklet that accompanied the 1964 Mathematica exibition. We are lucky to have this … Continue reading
Rediscovering Alvin Lustig
We are delighted to add 36 of Alvin Lustig’s New Classics to the Humantific Collection. The series was published in the 1940s and 50s by New Directions Books, located just down the street at 500 Fifth Avenue here in … Continue reading
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Lost Stories Applied Creativity History
In this series, we are focusing on lost stories in innovation history. At Humantific, we have always had great interest in the unsung milestones, forgotten stories, and off-the-beaten-path landmarks of innovation history, as they tend to inform present-day understanding significantly. Many … Continue reading
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Lost Stories Information Design History
In a competitive business marketplace, not everyone wants to acknowledge that each generation tends to learn from, build on, or divert from the previous generation’s ideas and output. We see this phenomenon clearly evident in the various streams of Visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Isotype, Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Big Data, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Beyond, Edward Tufte, GK VanPatter, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, Humantific Collection, Info Graphics, Information Design History, Isotype Institute, Joseph Priestly, Otto Neurath, Statistical Graphics, Visible Futures, Visual SenseMaking, Visualizing Data, Willard C. Brinton, William Playfair
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Making Sense of Industries
We love and respect the complex history of what has become the sensemaking profession today. Here are more example images from Humantific’s Isotype Institute Collection. These are from 1955. The Vienna-based Isotype Institute team, active in the 1920s-1950s, is widely recognized … Continue reading
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Isotype Building Bridges
We are happy to share more historical sensemaking images from Humantific’s Isotype Collection. These are from 1943. In early Isotype studio work, one can find many great examples of sensemaking acceleration techniques that are still in use today, including the … Continue reading
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Before, During & After Isotype
At Humantific, we have tremendous respect for the work of the early Social SenseMaking pioneers—among them, the central figures of Isotype Institute: Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) and Marie Neurath (1898-1986). In the Humantific Collection, we have numerous Isotype … Continue reading
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The Power of Your Mind 1952
We love and respect innovation history. In the marketplace, we see some experts running around claiming to have invented everything from integrative thinking to various forms of innovation. To us, such claims are nonsense. We all stand on the shoulders of … Continue reading
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Tagged After Alex Osborn, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Humantific Collection, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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Innovation History Collection
A recent addition to Humantific’s ever growing Innovation History Archive: Alex Osborn’s pioneering 1953 book Applied Creativity made into a two record set in 1964. A very rare find indeed! Check out that adjustable wrench! We know you are jealous … Continue reading
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The Power of Your Mind
In 1952, Alex Osborn wrote: “Exercise your imagination — the more creative you become, the more you will get out of life.” With so much hype around innovation and creativity today, we find it useful to be aware at a … Continue reading
How to Think UP! 1942
In the Humantific Innovation Archives, we have many of the early books and papers from the history of creative thinking, applied imagination, applied creativity, creative problem solving, systems thinking, human intelligence, learning styles, structure of the intellect, etc. From time to … Continue reading
Data Visualization 1890
Those readers studying the parallel histories of data visualization, information design, information architecture, statistical graphics, or sensemaking will know that long before Richard Saul Wurman, Edward Tufte, Karl Weik, Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz, Isotype Institute, Jacques Bertin, Fritz Kahn, or … Continue reading
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