May 2008
13 posts
Why Ze Frank thinks creativity is a blank word.
This is one part of a series of quotes on creativity from the creative geniuses of our time.
He has been featured in Time Magazine, presented not only once - but twice - at TED conference, and is often referred to as a “genius in creating online experiences”… he goes by the name Ze Frank.
If you have seen any of Ze Frank’s work, or if you have ever seen him speak,...
Seth Godin explains real creativity.
This is one part of a series of quotes on creativity from the creative geniuses of our time.
When it comes to creative marketing, there is one man who stands out from the rest; he has written countless bestselling books, talked in front of the world’s fastest growing business (Google), and has even presented at one of the world’s greatest thinking conferences (TED). Of course...
Do you know what Steve Jobs thinks about...
This is one part of a series of quotes on creativity from the creative geniuses of our time.
Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune, awarded the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan in 1985, featured on the cover of Time magazine several times, and listed as one of the top 100 most-influential people in the world by Time magazine, Steve Jobs is - without a...
Motivation Monday: Bankrupt Offices.
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”.
Creative motivation can be found almost anywhere.
Sometimes you will find creative motivation where you least expect it, and for Phil Toledano, creative inspiration came in the form of archaeology and the...
Quantity produces quality ideas.
Thomas Edison - inventor of the phonograph and long-life lightbulb - impacted the world with his ideas. Without Edison and his creative genius, we (most likely) would live in a very different world today. But what made Edison a creative genius? How was he able to create such brilliant ideas?
One way was that Edison produced a large quantity of ideas, not just one or two.
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Monday Motivation: Now, a blog by Unfolded.
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”.
Creative inspiration can come from many different places. Because of easy accessibility and the quality of resources, the internet is a great place to find creative inspiration.
Not all websites with creative...
Five valuable ways to produce more ideas.
Coming up with ideas isn’t always easy. Even creative geniuses like Einstein, Picasso, and Edison found it difficult to always produce ideas.
However, the best creative geniuses knew that the more ideas you produce, the more likely you are to discover a successful and remarkable idea, so they found a few things to help them produce more ideas over time.
Here are a few of the absolute...
The Buddhist way of making ideas brilliant.
A defining difference between useless ideas and brilliant ideas is that useless ideas are just plain ideas, brilliant ideas are ones that are made into reality.
One person who really understood the difference between useless ideas and brilliant ones was the famous spiritual teacher, and the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Siddharta.
Gautama knew that the first step in making any idea into a...
Monday Motivation: Brand association with Brand...
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”.
Your creativity is like a regular muscle on your body; if you spend some time working it out it will grow stronger, but if you are lazy and don’t ever work with your creativity, it will grow weak.
A good...
Why big ideas aren't always rare ones.
Popular US magazine, The New Yorker, has published an extremely interesting article online about the annals of innovation.
Here’s a snippet from the article:
“Newton and Leibniz both discovered calculus. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both discovered evolution. Three mathematicians ‘invented’ decimal fractions. Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley, in...
Monday Motivation: How Pixar does innovation.
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”.
Pixar is one of the world’s most-popular and well-known animation studios. The films Pixar produces have received hundreds of awards around the globe and one of the films has even been listed as the 66th...
Are you recognizing your creativity?
There are many people who believe that, in order to be creative you need to be artistic.
If you are not an artist or designer you may find yourself occasionally thinking: “I’ll leave the creative stuff to the creative people; I’m just not creative, or as creative.”
“According to scientists, who for the past 20 years have put the elusive subject of creativity...
Create your own idea pocket book for less than $1.
Last week I wrote about how important it is to write down your ideas, and I listed a few ways you can write down ideas no matter where you are or what you’re doing.
Unfortunately, buying notebooks or writing supplies can sometimes be costly, and the books are often boring-looking, which makes it hard to be motivated and write constantly.
Creating your own pocket book is also a great...