Using Duck Stories on the Job

[Shaun Craill]

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From: Klartekst [mailto:info at klartekst.no] 
Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2003 9:40 a.m.
To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
Subject: Using Duck Stories on the Job

<Has anyone else on the list used Duck or Mouse stories in their
educational or professional life?>

Hi everyone,

In my other life as a product designer, Scrooge and Donald appear
occasionally as thumb nail sketches in the margins of concept drawings.

A few digests ago someone (Cord I think) mentioned a reference in a book
that looked at the economic aspects of Carl Barks' stories.  Tomorrow I'll
be attending a seminar about the rise of Finland and how it has become the
second most competitive economy in the world and the most advanced in IT,
and how this relates to Finland's use of design, creativity and innovation.

The obvious question to me is, is there any link between Finland's
performance and their avid consumption of Disney comics?  What is it about
the psyche of the Fins that make them so imaginative?  Does reading Disney
comics help them in this regard or is it a symptom of how their minds work?

Wouldn't it be great if it turned out that all a country needed to do to
succeed was to read lots of Duck stories!  That's probably just wishful
thinking!

I'd be interested in any comments from our Finnish or Scandinavian friends.

Shaun