June 2008
13 posts
Motivation Monday: What gets YOU motivated?
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”.
Mondays are always hard for me.
The weekend is worry-free and full of lazy days and entertainment-filled nights. Then Monday abruptly stops all of my weekend fun.
A little creative motivation on a Monday...
Creativity quote: Failure is often the best...
Without him, your car wouldn’t start electronically, solar technology would be very different from what it is today, and diesel engines might not exist. Who am I referring to? World-famous inventor, Charles Kettering.
Kettering was not only an inventor of many things that impacted the world we live in today, he was also one of the most creative geniuses of the early 1900s.
When asked...
So you think you aren't creative...
If you don’t sit in a café all day sipping at frappuccinos, does that mean you’re not a creative person?
Or every time you look at a blank computer screen, sheet of paper, or painting canvas, and don’t come up with a brilliant work of art, does that mean you’re not the creative type?
And what about when you have a project that you need to work on and you can’t...
Motivation Monday: Different takes on public art.
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”.
One of the best company blogs in the world (Signal vs. Noise by 37signals) recently posted about Two very different takes on public sculpture and art.
The article explains the differences between public art...
Take a look into a real creative farm.
You have never seen anything like this before.
It’s a video tour of a creative farm in England that grows, juices, and distributes creativity.
From the YouTube page: “Behind the scenes tour of of an award-winning creative farm, juicing process and distribution in South West England. The South West produces some of the UK’s finest creative work (animation, web design,...
Finding inspiration in your environment.
Can the world around you inspire your creativity?
For husband and wife Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, the environments they have surrounded themselves with over the past few years have not only impacted their creative imagination, their surroundings have helped inspire their own creative niche.
You may have seen the work of Martin & Muñoz without even knowing it. You may have read one...
Monday Motivation: Workplaces and creativity.
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”.
If you were employed in 1838, you would most likely be sitting behind a tiny desk in a room with 210 other people aligned in front and to the sides of you, 10 of which were there only to make sure you did your...
Creativity quote: How the web amplifies...
If there was anyone who ever really understood innovation, it would be this man, Charles Leadbeater.
Leadbeater is a popular British author (he wrote “We Think”) and former advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair. Through his life, Leadbeater has monitored the way interaction fuels human beings, and from that he has found what really fuels innovation.
As...
Want to keep creativity flowing at your office?
The father of modern management, Peter Drucker, once said something about how “Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.”
And Drucker was right, the two functions that continually power corporations is marketing and innovation.
What powers the marketing and innovation behind companies? Creativity, of course.
But how can a company that is dependent on marketing that...
Monday Motivation: Animals on the underground.
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”.
When you see something like a map of the underground trail tunnels of London, you see just that: a map of the underground trail tunnels of London.
And, while there is nothing wrong with seeing what is right in...
Some of the absolute best blogs for creative...
So, you’re looking for remarkable blogs about creativity.
Blogs are, without a doubt, one of the best resources you can use when it comes to searching for creative inspiration.
Over the past few years I have stumbled upon, read through, bookmarked, subscribed to, unsubscribed from, and found some incredible blogs focused on creative inspiration; yet, most of the creative blogs I...
The creative power of drawing ideas.
What do the words “creative idea” mean to you?
No matter how you put it, a creative idea is nothing more than an idea, a thought in your head.
Taking your ideas and making them into something more than just thoughts can be a daunting task for some people, but - in actuality - making your ideas a reality is as easy as drawing them out.
Drawing your ideas out isn’t just...
Motivation Monday: The Career guide for creative...
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”.
It is definitely not easy finding a career that satisfies both your creative and financial needs.
For creative people like you and me, finding that perfect job seems like an impossible task.
If you are one...