The secret to a successful creative collaboration? +Good Chemistry Dan Barham, (www.danbarham.com) whose 3rd place winning light-hearted “5 Stages of a Bummer Summer” riffed on the season’s disappointing weather, brainstormed his show’s “big idea” with his crew around a large table with two bottles of scotch and a pad of paper. “I’d had the idea [...]
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Lessons on the creative process, gleaned from Sherpas Cinema
In the studio across the way from us, Sherpas Cinema have been holed up all summer, editing the feature film All.I.Can in time for its world premiere in Whistler on September 23 at the 2000–seat Conference Centre. All.I.Can. Official Teaser from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. The scale of the project is mammoth – the feature was [...]
How to be Creative – the Wisdom Project Chronicles of Andrew Zuckerman
The story, in a nutshell: a guy who has never shot a portrait or conducted an interview, excavates the life wisdom from 60 of the world’s highest–profile elders. The result: The Wisdom Project. Here’s what he learned. Andrew Zuckerman from 99% on Vimeo. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us show up and get [...]
Passionate about mountain culture? Prove it.
Do not be surprised at a job interview for Origin Design if we ask you to take off your coat. We just want to see if you really mean it when you say you love the mountains. (Half as much as our Montreal office’s Account Manager does.)
Monday Moodboard – A literal guide to Monday mornings
We decided to take a literal approach to today’s moodboard, borrowing these awesome portraits from James Mollison. So is this a or a kinda day?
DIY – our favourite creative projects of the week
Creative expression most widely manifests as tailwhips and tattoos in Whistler in the summertime, but we’ve rounded up a few alternatives for the crafty set, inspired by our friend Zoe Martin, who has been baking up a storm of cupcakes every Tuesday to support a colleague running to end kids’ cancer next weekend. So, in [...]
My B Grade Summer (Moodboard Monday IV)
My summer? Good. Not great. Over all I’d give it a B+. Here’s the math: Beauty + Bear Bums + Brownies + Big Air + Blow Outs + Beats + Bumps + Bikes + (Boots + Booze + Bath) = Bliss in the Backyard. Origin Moodboard Project: B grade summer (Part 4 in the Origin [...]
Alternate Uses for Bulldog Clips – A Gallery
Our account services team is obsessed with bulldog clips. We suspect this is the way they manage the world and the unruliness of creative people and client expectations. But there’s something overwhelming about arriving, pre-coffee, to a stack of dockets neatly bulldogged… So, in a gesture of creative (and affectionate) rebellion, we are curating a [...]
Moodboard Monday – Deep Summer part III
Summer: we summons you, we serenade you. And it sounds like: Yoohoo! morphing into Yeehaa!
Moodboard Monday – Deep Summer part II
The old rule of physical activity: start cool, warm up? It doesn’t apply any more. Not until the snow in the alpine melts, at any rate. Today’s Deep Summer moodboard? A July hike up to Rainbow Lake that began in shorts and tshirt, and ended in jacket, gloves and toque. Happy Monday.
