Vision Innovator Mugs

Bill's money-saving scheme to use magnifying glasses instead of store bought glasses backfires when he goes outside in the sun.

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

A secretary at a desk with a nameplate the says Dot Com.

Blue sky thinking

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

'She posted her first blog today.'

"You really need to think about getting glasses."

"I've had these glasses since I was a kid, when my doctor told me I'd grow into them..."

'Frankly, I'm not sure this whole idea-sharing thing is working.'

'He wasn't doing a bit good, until I changed his glasses.'

Lateral Thinking - Not Out & Not In trays.

Creative family

"I'm a pragmatist, Leon. Before I put a new product on the market, I ask myself, 'Will it sell?' "

"I'm really great thanks. The boss loves my ideas, he says I'm ahead of my time!" "Hi John, how are you? Good meeting?"

'Have your people facebook my people.'

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

"In the marketplace of ideas, we may not have the best ideas, but we have the best marketing."

'This is a 'million dollar idea', Simms, unfortunately, our debt is two million dollars.'

'Unfortunately, our entirely Twitter and Facebook based business model was a little ahead of its time!'

'I've created hundreds of jobs. Of course, they're all going to be automated.'

"It turns out our health plan does cover eyeglasses."

I'm more than just a sauce, I'm a re-sauce.

'I hate these cliche situations!'

A man stealing another person's ideas

The Big Idea vs The Small Change

Somebody should really be filming this for YouTube.

'Having trouble getting used to your new bi-focals'

'That's interesting Larry, but most people just use a flipchart to express their ideas.'

"Thanks to my new glasses, I can enjoy a good old "bird's eye view" again..."

"That's out idea department – the door was one of their ideas."

"It's the new business model - my ideas have sex with your ideas."

"Any intellectual property yet, honey?"

'What's this, Dawkins?another of you 'visual metaphors'?'