Author: Duncan

One of IDEAS long-time story advocates and best-of-breed creative collaborators, Larry Littlebird, recently passed along an interesting opportunity that we’d like to share across the IDEAS universe. Larry's son, Jesse, is a blossoming artist, photographer, film director and all-round creative talent as well as a 2017 Sundance (yes, that Sundance) Full Circle...

Heard a great term the other day … “meanager” … as in "viciously acerbic, socially cruel, perpetually sarcastic teenager.” Now, full disclosure here, I do not have a teenager. I have a 9-year old daughter who is an absolute angel, does what she’s told, and always follows the rules (knock...

Part of our business involves responding to RFPs (Request For Proposal). These are usually long and cumbersome documents released by clients for work they need help to complete so that other companies or vendors can submit a proposal. While there is always important language in an RFP that has critical...

The past few weeks have been a little crazy here at home; we are remodeling part of the house, we are living in our child’s playroom, she is in a large theater production with lots of rehearsals, I have been drafted into working backstage during the production handling fly ropes,...

There are a myriad of ways to approach a creative assignment or challenge. Some people have their tried and true favorites. Others, (myself included) are always adding new ideas or techniques to our quiver of “getting started” options for developing new concepts. Here are some of the more recent ones...

I recently went back up to Western New York to visit friends and catch a Buffalo Bills pre-season game. Driving around Rochester for the first time in 10+ years, I was alarmed to see that the Mr. Steak restaurant location where I had my first job and met up with...

There are many to approaches backing up files – ranging from maniacal to intermittent to completely forgotten. Here’s how I handle my backups working remotely from a home office in North Carolina and at IDEAS in Orlando using primarily office and graphics files. Auto Save – I have this activated...

In the early stages of a project at IDEAS, we often hold an “All Call” where we gather folks from the Story, Learning, Studio, and Operations teams to iterate on the task at hand and how we might develop an innovative and viable solution. While the client’s objective, target audience,...

A little over 3 years ago, I left Orlando to live in Greensboro, NC as my wife took advantage of an exciting promotion within her own company. Luckily, this did not require a career change for me and I was able to continue with IDEAS and remain part of the...

Last week I flew out to Seattle to continue work on an Experience Design project for a client in the fitness and wellness industry. I spent the day with their Director of User Experience working on this new fitness experience for their upcoming new product line. They use story much...