December 2024
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The Creative Pitch My Dad Didn’t Buy
When I was a kid, I heard the phrase “winter tires” and immediately imagined something extraordinary. To me, winter tires were like snowshoes for cars—just as snowshoes expand a person’s ability to navigate deep snow, I imagined winter tires as specialized, oversized creations designed to master snowy roads. What I didn’t yet know was that Continue reading
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A Mandate for Creatives: Why We Need to Step Into the AI Space Now
If you’re an artist or creative, this is your call to action. Generative AI isn’t just a shiny new toy for tech enthusiasts; it’s a space where the future of creativity is being shaped in real time. And whether that future is vibrant and expansive or narrow and derivative depends on who shows up. Two Continue reading
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Stewardship in a World with Generative AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often framed as a tool, a product of human ingenuity to be wielded or sold. But such a narrow view misses the point. AI is a resource—a generative, evolving phenomenon—more akin to forests, oceans, or networks of roads than to gadgets or software. Its transformative potential lies not in control but Continue reading
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The Guide in the Passenger Seat
I moved back to the Detroit area recently, and my work brought me to Warren, Michigan. It’s a route I’ve come to know well—a drive my father once took every day during his decades at Campbell-Ewald, where he worked as a copywriter in the 1970s and 1980s and a creative director in the 1980s and Continue reading
Carrie Bickner 