First Entry

One of the fun things about my job is that I not only try to come up with new ideas for products, but try to come up with ideas for products that help people come up with new ideas. A good deal of this involves just staying curious, looking all over the place for cool stuff and musing on it, letting it bring up questions (or solutions or just a "hmmm," or whatever). It is in this spirit that I'm starting this blog, as sort of an online museum or personal library of random observations that have popped into my life and maybe deserve a couple of sentences and maybe a picture or MP3 or two. Ultimately, I hope that you find these things useful, that they might provide a creative spark when you need one, or at least make you go "hmmm." This morning my father-in-law gave my son a puzzle that he (my father-in-law) had as a child. I love that the box is almost anti-design in its presentation; no graphics indicating the contents, just a light stamp on one side saying "BOY WITH RABBIT."





And the puzzle itself is interesting in that the pieces are not interlocking; was this a design innovation that came later? Here's a website that pretty much tells the story, and sort of answers the above questions if you read between the lines: http://www.lockport-ny.com/History/Upson.htm