Articles
This is the place for thoughts and creativity. I am writing articles to share my thoughts, ideas and questions and for you to build on top of these.
I am an explorer and I have a positive attitude. Everyone is then free to comment my thoughts as long as it is constructive and helps leverage ideas and make them evolve.
The key words are: challenge yourself and build on top of others ideas!
- What can I do with Twitter?
- For a little while now I have been working on a project called “The Power Of Twitter” which aims to help people explain what Twitter is to those who don’t understand its logic. This is how I came up with the idea of creating cards aiming to represent the main things you can do with [...] Read more – ‘What can I do with Twitter?’.
- Designers are not visionaries
- I always believed designers are visionaries. Few days ago I had a talk with Philippe Cailloux in the Bay Area who made me have a different vision on that. Let me share it with you. I have just spent a month in the Bay Area meeting a lot of awesome companies from small startups like [...] Read more – ‘Designers are not visionaries’.
- Twitter Cards (2)
- These last days I worked on the Twitter Cards project and made a lot of quick prototypes using Illustrator and InDesign. The idea was to create those cards as quickly as possible and see how people understand them. Through that process I understood I have two main challenges. How to represent the different features of [...] Read more – ‘Twitter Cards (2)’.
- Twitter Cards (1)
- Yesterday I worked with Laurent Sciamma, a freelance artistic director, in La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris on the project The Power Of Twitter. This place is amazing by the way! You can come and work in those weird boxes (see below), you have a great library with mostly art related books, you can even use [...] Read more – ‘Twitter Cards (1)’.
- The Power Of Twitter: Filter
- This article is the second one of a serie which aims to share my process of my project The Power Of Twitter : system visualization of Twitter. See first article. I have been talking to people who are using the bird’s service and they all told me that the first reason why they are using [...] Read more – ‘The Power Of Twitter: Filter’.
- Launching “The Power Of Twitter”
- Few month ago I had a discussion with my good friend Dory, a great designer from RISD, about info visualization. We were thinking that the way you represent information can really help people understanding things better. Nowadays you see a lot of data visualizations which basically consist in making information nicer and more meaningful. But [...] Read more – ‘Launching “The Power Of Twitter”’.
- Few words on my work at Le Camping
- Le Camping aims to accelerate startups in a 6 month program divided in two parts. The first one to take ideas from paper to demo and present it in front of seed investors. And the second one to move from the demo to a fully-fledged business! A bunch of mentors from many different fields such [...] Read more – ‘Few words on my work at Le Camping’.
- Being a visionary is not about seeing the future
- When most people talk about vision, e.g. “this is my vision for the future”, they talk about the way they see the world in a couple of years. It looks like they took some kind of time machine and jumped years ahead and then described what was around them. But this is only in their [...] Read more – ‘Being a visionary is not about seeing the future’.
- My TED talk on How to unlock people’s creativity – the video
- After some time my TED talk has finally been edited and is now available on the web! It is unfortunately in French but a subtitled version should arrive soon… Enjoy the talk and please share your point of view! This article relates to a previous one. Read more – ‘My TED talk on How to unlock people’s creativity – the video’.
- Unlocking people’s creativity at TEDx Paris University
- This week-end (October the 16th) I was speaking at TEDx Paris University with five other students and eleven professionals and this was a great experience! During this event I met amazing people and it was the first time I went on stage with such a high level requested, which made the whole experience so unique! [...] Read more – ‘Unlocking people’s creativity at TEDx Paris University’.
- Participating at PICNIC for the The European Street Design Challenge
- I am going to participate to the PICNIC event in Amsterdam and more specifically to the European Street Design Challenge under the theme “Redesign the city.” 22-24 September 2010 Westergasfabriek Amsterdam PICNIC is about innovative ideas for business and society. It is an annual three-day festival that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology and [...] Read more – ‘Participating at PICNIC for the The European Street Design Challenge’.
- Jack got the Design Observeur’s label 2011!
- Organised since 1999 by the APCI, the Observeur highlights and rewards each year a selection of the best creations resulting from the collaboration between companies and designers. The Observeur welcomes companies and designers from all sectors of industry to exhibit their most recent and innovative creations. This year I had the privilege to get the [...] Read more – ‘Jack got the Design Observeur’s label 2011!’.
- Speaking at TEDx Paris Université (TEDxPU)
- I am honored to announce that I will be speaking at TEDxParis Université. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. TEDx Paris Université is a TEDx event operating [...] Read more – ‘Speaking at TEDx Paris Université (TEDxPU)’.
- Brand new website!
- I am introducing today this brand new website. As some of you may know I had a flash website before, designed by myself and developped by Mathieu Carpentier whom I had a great time working with. Now, I feel like it is the time to change. I have new needs and this new website will [...] Read more – ‘Brand new website!’.