November 2008
6 posts
Finding the time to be creative.
What’s your excuse for not being creative today? What about yesterday or the day before?
Were you “just too busy to think of different possibilities”? Or maybe you simply “don’t have time to be creative”. While you may have led yourself to believe that these are good excuses for not being creative, these are horrible excuses for not being creative.
When it comes down to it: you...
One creative way to help charity.
This is unbelievable.
Jacob Cass is currently running a contest on his design blog with prizes totaling over $11,000! But this isn’t your average blog contest. No, this contest is all about helping charity through user donations.
Readers enter the contest by making a donation to charity.
Jacob has come up with an incredible setup for this contest, and it goes to show how a little...
Does thinking outside the box hinder creativity?
We’ve all heard it a thousand times.
Think outside the box. It’s a metaphor that seems to have worked for hundreds of creative geniuses in the past. But could thinking outside the box actually be wrong? According to Harry and Christine Clifford Beckwith, authors of You, Inc., thinking outside of the box can greatly hinder your creativity.
Here’s one chapter from the...
How thinking can make you more creative.
Once a week I take a 45 minute drive up the middle of the state to spend the weekend with two of my favorite muses.
The first muse is, of course, my girlfriend of two years. The second muse, however, cannot really be given a title, per say. Because the second muse is simply my own thoughts, the ones that have crowded my mind again and again for the past two years.
Some people would ask:...
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Do open conditions stimulate creativity?
What is it about high ceilings that attract us?
For thousands of years artists, architects, and everyone in–between has been drawn to high ceilings. The reasons that home buyers, famous artists such as Michelangelo, and general creative people look for spaces with high ceilings has been a mystery… until 2007 when a study reported that high ceilings do, in–fact stimulate creativity.
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