TOPIC: CREATIVITY (74)

Dreaming Tree Foundation

Dreaming Tree Foundation's mission is to transform the lives of young people through encouraging, fostering, and actively involving them in the field of creative arts. Dreaming Tree Foundation (DTF) provides teens with hands-on experience in the creative field of filmmaking. Through various programs geared towards teens, DTF gives youth the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the filmmaking industry, while gaining skills they will need in the workforce, such as decision making, time management, critical thinking, and teamwork.

Accompany

Introducing global curation at its finest: Accompany scours the globe for the coolest, most beautiful and one-of-a-kind finds, and filters them through a range of style lenses — to create unique boutiques that contain both an eclectic mix of cultures and a well-edited point of view. Handmade pieces and ethically-sourced items bring human impact and fashion impact together, to create feel-good goods through a look-good lens.

Do The Green Thing

We are a public service for the planet founded in 2007 by Andy Hobsbawm and Naresh Ramchandani, two friends with backgrounds in online and offline communications. Our motto is Creativity vs Climate Change. Our product is a feed of beautiful, subversive and delightful inspiration made by great creative talent from around the world. Our aim is to inspire as many people as possible to live in a less selfish, less consumptive, more imaginative and more sustainable way.

Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She gets occasional help from a handful of guest contributors.

Artists Wanted

Artists Wanted is a collaborative project between several New York City artists and creative organizations working to build new lasting opportunities for emerging talent. We have experienced first hand the difficulties in breaking into the professional art world and it is our mission to make this process more welcoming, dynamic and open-ended.

Ideas Island

Ideas Island is a project by creativity author and professional speaker Fredrik Härén where he lets creative people stay for free on one of his three private islands so they can work on their ideas.

Beat Making Lab

Beat Making Lab is an electronic music studio small enough to fit in a backpack. We build Labs in collaboration with communities all around the world; donating laptops, microphones and software. Our goal is to create positive social impact by giving youth the tools and training to make beats and songs.

Wren + Glory

Wren + Glory has partnered with Elvis Duran and the Morning Show to bring you a limited edition capsule collection. Designed with the Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, all pieces are made of brass and plated in 18k gold or white gold. The sound wave not only represents the logo, but also the gift of hearing that we often take for granted. Gloria & Renee, designing sisters behind the jewelry brand, have first hand understanding of this. Their dad was born with a major hearing deficiency, and has worn hearing aids his entire life. 

The Imagine Project

The Imagine Project, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, was founded on the principle that there exists within each child a creative energy which must not lie dormant. Eventually, as with all sources of power, it must either extinguish itself, excel or explode.

A Creative Mint

My name is Leslie and I recently moved from Los Angeles to Vancouver Island, Canada where I grew up. I started my blog, A Creative Mint, to share and store my little projects and photographs. I am interested in all aspects of design, from collage and watercolors to architecture and cooking!

Brooklyn Robot Foundry

We are two friends that joined forces to inspire and motivate kids by teaching them about the fun of building. We love the idea of learning and coming together through making things. We believe in the DIT—do it together— mentality and the importance of building a community around this common goal.

The Crafts Council

The Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary craft in the UK. Our goal is to make the UK the best place to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft. Through our different departments and partnerships our work includes professional development programmes for makers, promoting craft education, innovative exhibitions and events and ongoing research, development and advocacy work in to the craft and wider arts sector.

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TED-Ed

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

The Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.

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Stereomood

Stereomood turns your mood into music. Everything you need is just a click away. Simply visit the website, choose your mood from our tag list (lost in jamaica, candlelite dinner), discover and share new music. It's simple.
All the playlists pool the music from the web's top music blogs. If you sign up on the site you get access to your personalized library with the songs you love and a playlist section in which you can create your own mixes. Via your dashboard you can even see others stereomood users that are in the same mood and you can check out their profile. Quickly share your own tracks on twitter and last.fm via the profile page.