Amazing Artistry and Ideas: What Motivates Us

"Drive" from RSA Animate is an stunning combination of amazingly skilled whiteboard drawing synchronized with a fascinating talk about what motivates us to do our best in life. Magical, inspiring and hypnotic - The ideas and info in this whiteboard animation are as cool as the drawing execution and artistry.

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The artist describes this as "Scribing" Whatever you call it, it's also some of the best cartooning I've ever seen.



The artist is part of a firm called Cognitive Media . They certainly downplay the identity of the individual artist because I've been searching for a while and I sure can't find it!


Anyway, if you're as blown away as I am by this drawing/presentation/animation technique, there's links to their other videos and lots more cool stuff at the Cognitive Media website:
http://www.cognitivemedia.co.uk/


This viewer-friendly visualization of concepts and ideas also brings to mind the sketch notes of artist Mike Rohde:

http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/


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4 comments:

  1. gonzalexxMay 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM

    I can't agree with you more. This is a sure fire way of getting a great message across, and what a great message. I actually shared it with key co-workers at the office today. And one of the upper level mgmt persons took it upon herself to share it key persons as well. I really hope it sinks in.. they are badly in need of a change in the way they manage. It sure brought to light the way I work and create as well. Great fuel!

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  2. SeverinMay 17, 2010 at 5:23 PM

    I wonder what form of motivation animation crews get, money or autonomy? From speaking with folks in the industry, I get the impression that the answer is neither!

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  3. Unca JeffyMay 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM

    I loved this yesterday when you posted it on Facebook and I love it more the more I think of it.

    You're right, the cartooning is brilliant, but the ideas put forth in this are brilliant as well!

    If you hadn't posted it here I was fully prepared to lift it from you and post it on my own blog on Wednesday. Great job as always finding and sharing these gems Sherm!

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  4. Emma And'ertoonzMay 18, 2010 at 1:00 AM

    Hey Sherm.. I was completely transfixed by this entire thing and my attention span only usually lasts about 2 minutes..!

    Its a great idea to make the most boring subject interesting. Also, on the subject of the actual message, there's was a small IT company my brother in law used to work for here in the UK that did the 'do your own project for a day' thing every couple of months. It worked really well for them and they were eventually bought up by IBM for their creativity and expertise!

    Em :)

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