Painting on a penny, by Jacqueline Lou Skaggs

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Smart packaging design for boxes of elastic bands. Slightly different shaped boxes for varying tensions of elastic.

Designer: Ric Bixter

Not every music fan reads Billboard Magazine, but every music fan has music on their phone, so we created a magazine dispenser that gives away a free magazine if you prove you are a fan of the artist on the cover of Billboard Magazine. How? Using your phone. If you’re a fan of the artist on our cover, plug your iPhone into the Fan Check Machine and let it analyze your music library (no app needed). If the machine finds more than 20 songs by the artist on the cover of Billboard, you get the magazine for free.

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather - Brazil

A team of students at Rice University have created PediPower -- a prototype device that attaches to a shoe to harvest energy generated when the heel hits the ground.

Although just a prototype, this type of technology could be a life saver, not just for those who get the sweats when their iPhone dribbles below 15%, but for those who depend on battery-powered blood or glucose monitors, and can't afford a dead battery.

Brendan Dimitri, Contributor
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Make stuff at all times. Don't talk. Make shit. You will never do something great by talking about what other people are doing. So quit yapping and start doing. At all times.

Jay Russell -- Executive Creative Director, GSD&M

The Hälssen & Lyon tea calendar is the first calendar in the world to feature calendar days made from tea leaves. Finely flavoured and pressed until thin, the 365 calendar days can be individually detached and brewed directly in the cup with hot water.

Agency: Kolle Rebbe - Hamgurg, Germany

Residents in rural Peru have received 15,000 litres of clean drinking water this year, courtesy of a billboard that has been making it out of thin air.
Nick Lawhead, Contributor
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The Sketchbook Project is a global, crowd-sourced art project and interactive, traveling exhibition of handmade books. Our community is made up of over 75,000 people, and our permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library holds over 27,098 sketchbooks from 135 countries around the globe.

Being creative for the sake of it is a discipline practiced not often enough.

Nick Lawhead, Contributor
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