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Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need--for better organization--with web tools, events, even notebooks. How Behance Brings Order to Crazy Creatives Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need—for better organization—with web tools, events, even notebooks.

Ponytails in motion. Credit: Mike Adams/Flickr via Creative Commons BOSTON At long last, one of the hairiest problems in modern physics has been solved. Researchers have devised a theoretical model to describe the shape of a ponytail.

The founder of Joie de Vivre hotels on his new book, Emotional Equations, and the trick he uses to combat paralyzing anxiety. Chip Conley knows fear. In 2008 with the economy in recession, his hotel business Joie de Vivre sinking around him, a family member wrongly convicted and in San Quentin prison, five close friends recently lost to suicide—his heart just stopped

They're a bit like lone wolves--which means they come with different care and feeding instructions than regular employees.

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (Basic Books, 2012), by Eric Topol, a professor of innovative medicine and the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. [More]

For the entrepreneur, creative capital can be the catalyst to compel investors to sign on earlier in the start-up process. In 2006, after designing products and brands for other companies for 12 years under ASTRO Studios (my design firm), I teamed up with some outstanding business partners and spun-off a separate, product producing, direct-to-consumer brand of premium video gaming products called ASTRO Gaming

Creative capital, like venture capital, can be valuable to any growing organization and often worthy of an equity stake in the outcome. I’ll ask that you, the busy reader, indulge a background setup about yours truly. Hopefully, if you continue reading future blogs, some of the following will assist you in understanding my point of view

Creative capital, like venture capital, can be valuable to any growing organization and often worthy of an equity stake in the outcome. I’ll ask that you, the busy reader, indulge a background setup about yours truly

How do you make everyone happy in a creative project with multiple constituencies? You can't. And trying to please everyone will result in a mediocre outcome.

When I ask creative teams to tell me about how they push ideas to fruition, one of the things they swear by is fighting. [twistage 91f06d19df4f1] You have multiple people in the room with a strong vision for what should happen. The tug-of-war of ideas is part of the creative process

Continuing the ongoing efforts to highlight creative disrupters , Fast Company spoke with the executive creative director behind a once-scrappy free Canadian mag that's become a groundbreaking multi-media machine. (Bukkake past and all.) Image by Dan Meyer Vice Media debuted in 1994, as a Montreal magazine best known for its handy guides on topics such as shagging Muslims and the art of bukkake , hand-delivered by three friends in their parents' vans

Your "on the street" employees can be an important resource for business-building ideas. It’s crazy to think that all great ideas need to come from you or from your top managers. Chances are, your employees who are your “feet on the street” know more about your customers than you might.

[the following is a modified repost from Myrmecos , 2010] Image by US Army Africa, used under a Creative Commons CC-BY 2.0 license [More]

The old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is wrong--it cripples us when it comes to optimizing what works. Google is famous for its relentless A/B testing, a technique for making constant incremental improvements by testing one small change against the previous version to see which is more successful. You can apply this model to your own work habits too.

The British animator Cyriak Harris has translated his surreal creature creations into YouTube stardom. Cyriak Harris learned hand-drawn animation at school, but it's his bag of self-taught digital tricks that power the insane cavalcade of worm-shaped cats and madly multiplying lambs that make this 37-year-old Brit one of YouTube’s most popular filmmakers. His last eight clips have racked up roughly 28 million page views by putting cattle , sheep, teddy bears , and cats through preposterous paces