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One To Watch: The Zaha Hadid Blog

As a companion to the first major exhibition of Zaha Hadid's architecture and design in the UK, the Design Museum in London has launched a blog to create a forum for debate and discussion around her work.

From the site: "The exhibition blog hopes to reveal something of the complex processes behind exhibition development, will report on the exhibition launch and then, when the show opens to the public, visitors will be encouraged to submit their exhibition reviews to the moderator for publication."

The blog's off to a terrific start.  You can check it out here.

One To Bookmark: Endless Innovation

In 2005, we were asked by FORTUNE Magazine to come up with some new marketing ideas to help launch a new business conference that they had developed - The FORTUNE Innovation Forum.

One of the ideas the we moved forward with was to launch a  content rich blog centered solely around the subject of business innovation.  To write and edit the blog (which we titled "The Innovation Insider") we hired Dominic Basulto, a young graduate of the Yale School of Management.  Within a week of launching the The Innovation Insider, I realized that Dominic was not only an absolutely amazing blogger, but an incredibly smart and intelligent strategist.

Last month, Dominic joined our strategy team at ElectricArtists as our new Director of Editorial Strategy and Content Development.  He now works very closely with both myself and Claire Hyland on defining and developing our editorial strategies for new engagements for a range of clients including Starwood Hotels and American Express.

The good news is that even though he's taken a full time position at ElectricArtists, Dominic continues to blog about business innovation on Endless Innovation, his personal blog. 

Endless Innovation is one of my favorite blogs and I can't recommend it highly enough.   

Great bloggers are great curators

For me, the most interesting bloggers are those who - as the saying goes - "have a great eye".

Great bloggers are great curators. 

Here are two examples of bloggers who I think have amazing eyes, and because of this, have great blogs:

advert-eyes - I've never met "Zed" (as he lives in Athens, Greece) but I visit his blog every day.  How he finds the print ads he showcases on his site I'll never know. But what I do know is that each and every day I go to the site I see and ad that has me saying - "Fuck, thats good!"

I Heart Photograph - While I have no idea who "Laural" is, she has an amazing eye to spoke an interesting image.  Every time I go to her blog (which is every day) I feel inspired and creative.

 
As Seen On advert-eyes

As Seen On advert-eyes

As seen on I Heart Photograph

As seen on I Heart Photograph

Paula Scher's "Scenes From A Blog"

... as seen in today's New York Times Op-Ed section.

(If you're a fan of design and/or branding, be sure to check out Pentagram's "New at Pentagram" blog.  It's the firm at which Paula is a partner)