SA’s Top Creative People Show Us Their Desktops
by Yolandi on 27/11/09 at 7:30 am
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Some of SA’s top creative people were kind enough to send me a screenshot of their desktops. It’s really interesting to see what they look like and to learn the meaning or story behind the image. Here’s what they sent me:
Pete Case
Pete is the creative director at the design agency, Gloo. Pete says “I know you shouldn’t have a full desktop… But hey! That’s how I work (and it’s quite uncluttered for a Monday!)” The background was designed by team Gloo for one of their clients, Wicked Pixels (a really cool cape based animation company).
Andrew Whitehouse
Andrew is the creative director at FoxP2 and loves things being in the right place.
“My virtual Desktop is ideally pretty neat. In truth though, I’m quite messy. What usually happens is that I start off with a nice pretty picture that makes me warm inside with one icon, no type – mmm, simplicity bliss. Then over time it will decay into a splattering of files and folders until I can barely see the picture. Eventually, usually when I’m at my busiest, I’ll reach my visual toxicity threshold and indiscriminately scrape all the muck into the trash and start the cycle again. I hate the end, love the start.”
Justin Gomes
Justin is the co-founder and creative director of Cape Town advertising agency FoxP2. He jokes that this background reminders him not to underestimate the power of the dark side but essentially he just really likes this picture.
Matthew Bull
Matthew is the Chief creative officer at Lowe WorldWide and has a beautiful story behind this background. Here’s his story:
“when I was at school, my favourite poet was a guy called ee cummings – to this day I don’t write with any capital letters. anyway, on the parents night at my son’s new school here in the USA, the teacher had written this on here whiteboard. firstly, what a co-incidence that it was cummings, but secondly the quote she chose resonates so significantly with me, not to mention with what we do as creative people.”
Matthew says most of the time he has pictures of his wife or kids on his desktop but this for him “encapsulates a lesson we should all take to heart – especially my kids.”
Graham Warsop
Graham is Chairman of The Jupiter Drawing Room and hands-on Executive Creative Director of their Johannesburg offices. He likes keeping his desktop very neat. The Chesterfield is The Jupiter Drawing Room icon, which means a lot in terms of the company.
Ivan Johnson
Ivan is the executive creative director at BBDO Cape Town and has recently spring cleaned his laptop desktop so this one is brand new and very tidy.
According to a study in desktop psychology, everything from your habits to your ambitions can be seen by just by looking at your desktop icons and background. “Our desktops are our personal space and as such provide a fairly accurate personality description of an individual,” says Donna Dawson, a personality and behavior psychologist. To see what you desktop says about you click here.
Well, these are definitely unique and very interesting desktops. Thanks guys for entertaining us with these backgrounds.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is nuts about anything on 4 wheels. Besides moonlighting as the Heavy Chef girl at World Wide Creative, Yolandi runs Autofemme, a blog about cars, as a business on the side. View more articles by Yolandi.
Chris Franklin
Nov 27th, 2009
Cool article! Would be interesting to compare desktop screenshots of people in different industries. You might even do a series on this!
Yolandi
Nov 27th, 2009
Thanks Chris, in future we’re planning on featuring programmers, office workers and more!