{"id":97,"date":"2014-01-13T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/?p=97"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:09:48","slug":"coroflot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/2014\/01\/13\/coroflot\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroflot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/innovation-futures\/files\/2014\/01\/coroflot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Coroflot.com is a career and community site for creative professionals.\u00a0The innovation process consists in hosting individual creative portfolios and offering a large display of projects and ideas representing a market place of innovations and innovators. The community who visits the site daily represents a cross-section of the global design industry, working designers, design managers, internal and external hiring professionals, business managers of design firms, marketing and product management professionals, students, and educators.<\/p>\n<p>The market targeted by this site is huge, regarding to the increasing demand of this kind of services.<\/p>\n<p>Built with the primary objective of bringing together young designers with companies seeking creativity Coroflot and similar sites end up building a huge, completely transparent database with the works of the youngest creative minds as all the profiles and portfolios are public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driver\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social<\/p>\n<p>The problem of gaining visibility for young designers having their paper portfolios as the only way to communicate with potential clients\u00a0 lead to the creation of new (web) tools (instead of the classical paper portfolio).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Economic \/ Industrial<\/p>\n<p>The increasing difficulty \u2013 due to the increasing number of young designers \u2013 to find new talents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Change in current innovation patterns<\/p>\n<p>More and more companies look into these databases not only to find new creative talents but also to foster their innovation, get inspiration and benchmark creative dynamic in their sectors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sector specifics \/ cultural specifics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More related to the so-called creative class activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Internet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coroflot.com\/\">www.coroflot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Read fjegou's latest blog entries.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.innovation-futures.org\/?q=blog\/70\">fjegou&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abstract: Coroflot.com is a career and community site for creative professionals.\u00a0The innovation process consists in hosting individual creative portfolios and offering a large display of projects and ideas representing a market place of innovations and innovators. 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