April 2008
13 posts
Motivation Monday: The shape of instant food.
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
To some, stored food is just stored food. To Zach Kowalczyk, stored food is a visual representation of “what food has become in our society of convenience and instant gratification.”
In his photo...
Writing ideas down is a phenomenal idea.
Have you ever had an idea that you thought was so great it must be unforgettable, so you didn’t bother to write it down… then you forgot what it was?
If you don’t have a way to keep track of your ideas almost all of the time, you are bound to forget something sooner or later. Is risking the loss of a remarkable idea worth not doing something as simple as writing it down?
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Wondering how to be creative? Grab this free...
So you’re wondering how to be creative.
We all do from time to time. And for some, being creative comes naturally, like breathing. For others, learning how to be truly creative takes time. For advertising director Hugh MacLeod, learning how to be creative took time.
With all of the things Hugh has learned about being creative, he decided to write a short ebook to share his knowledge...
Creativity quote: Constantly flowing creativity.
Walter Russel, “originator of the term ‘New Age’”, was a very enlightened person when it came to creativity.
Russel’s creativity grew into genius when he began to recognize what made other creative people into geniuses: the ability to generate a great amount of ideas.
Russel learned that all successful, creative geniuses try to produce a waterfall of ideas...
Motivation Monday: The JetBlue business model.
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
Corporations are meant to be professional. Tied to a silent code of honor that says something about wearing a suit and tie 24/7… and if the corporation’s customers can’t physically see the...
Zen and the art of creative moments.
One idea comes after another, and another, and another. Simply trying is out of the question, and everything seems to be flowing naturally. The best part? Almost all of the ideas are the kind that make you say “Ah hah!”
It’s a creative Zen moment.
The moment where your thoughts and realizations, your actions and presentations, all seem to be flowing perfectly in...
How do you spark creativity?
Creativity is like fire: it can be difficult to start if you don’t know how.
Creativity is also like fire in the sense that one little spark has the potential to turn into something extremely enormous and powerful. All it takes is a little know-how to spark your creativity, and before you know it you will be overwhelmed with creativity. At least, that’s what we all hope for (it...
Motivation Monday: Best of Ffffound.
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
Are you looking for some remarkable, creative inspiration? Consider it found. If you haven’t already looked through 10 of the greatest web sources for creative inspiration - or even if you have - then...
Creativity quote: Why do people not create?
What better way is there to be inspired than to read the words of someone who is inspiring and successful? In my mind: there is almost no better way to be inspired than by the words of geniuses.
Here is a quote to help inspire your creativity today, made by world-famous psychologist, the father of humanistic psychology, and pioneer of the human hierarchy of needs, Abraham Maslow:
The key...
Simple, effective, and creative package designs to...
As a creative professional, one of my favorite ways of looking for creative inspiration and motivation is by searching through product packaging.
There seems to be a strong relationship between great, simple package design and inspiring artworks, because when I look at a package that was designed well, I instantly get motivated to create something as compelling. When looking at a package...
Motivation Monday: The imagination of Mark...
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
“In 2003, bored after a day in the classroom, he made a ball out of clear tape to toss around. It was a medium he discovered in a grade-school homeroom 20 years before, when he covered a marker in plastic...
How to get motivated and think outside the box.
Have you ever found something so incredible… so amazing… so unbelievable that you had to ask: “why didn’t anyone think of that before?”
It’s the feeling that an idea is so useful, beautiful, or improved, you could have thought of it yourself. But you didn’t think of it. And I didn’t think of it either.
The reason you or I didn’t think of...
Problems your creativity can successfully solve.
One of the most influential positive thinkers of our time, Norman Vincent Peale, pointed out that: “how you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself.”
The way you and I perceive a problem directly impacts how we are going to solve that problem; sadly, because of our tendency to judge and make biases based on past experiences, we are horrible at accurately...