Comments on: The Carsonified Blackboard

By: boink

boink — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:26:29 +0000

your web site is broken all over the place. wtf

By: Tony Yates

Tony Yates — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:15:11 +0000

I am a whiteboard guy myself.

When I see blackboards it goes through me, I always think of the scene from Jaws where that guy scrapes his nails down the blackboard. *shudder*

Agree totally with the theory though.

By: Jeremy Jarvis

Jeremy Jarvis — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:16:46 +0000

Nice idea. I bought a huge whiteboard the other day (still in packaging) – now you’ve got me thinking…

By: BradM

BradM — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:41:05 +0000

I'm more of a Wii Bowling nut myself. But I just can't seem to hold on to that Pro Status on a regular basis! At my old company, the best ideas always came around to us during an all day Beer-fest, Steaks at one of our Canadian Luxury Retreats that we so often used for Brainstorming ideas.

By: Kevin Rapley

Kevin Rapley — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:36:00 +0000

Recently instead of using the normal straight lines, shape tools and anchor points on illustrator I have favoured the pencil tool to write paths. It has been really liberating, I know it is still digital production but I basically use a document as a digital whiteboard. Some sketches work, others don’t and that is just fine. I enjoy the scrapiness of it and DigiKev has taken a new dimension as a result (the only remnence of previous design being my twitter feed!). Nice work Ryan, keep hitting us with your creative outlets they are truly inspiring.

By: Holden McGroin

Holden McGroin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:38:13 +0000

Ryan, your a genius!

blackboards, who would have thought!?

By: Kris Khaira

Kris Khaira — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:10:01 +0000

Blackboards are cool but I hate it when they squeak.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:05:14 +0000

Great idea, Ryan. And for the whiteboard v. blackboard argument, I find writing/sketching on a blackboard much more… ‘creative’ than a whiteboard. Perhaps its the whole feeling of crumbling chalk to etch out my ideas. Or maybe I’m just loopy.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:07:30 +0000

Matt – You won’t regret it. It’s a ton of fun and actually cheaper than a big whiteboard.

Andy – Yes, good ol’ Guitar Hero. It’s a fricken blast to play in the office :)

By: Andy Croll

Andy Croll — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:11:33 +0000

Ah, Guitar Hero.

The game that my wife pesters me to play… mainly ‘cos she kicks my arse at it.

It also helps maintain office creativity. There’s nothing like some rock, to motivate the troops.

I’m a massive fan of the whiteboard as a brainstorming tool, once I get myself out of my current one-man-band stage a whiteboard’ll be the first office purchase.

There’s something about the smell of the pens and scrawling ideas the size of your upper body that just makes me feel good.

By: Matt Carey

Matt Carey — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:38:21 +0000

We have done something similar with a large whiteboard. It has weekly planning stuff but also quotes etc. When we move to our new studio I think we’ll be doing the same as you…

By: Tbone McScreedle

Tbone McScreedle — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:30:10 +0000

I’m more of a whiteboard guy myself. To each their own.