Creativity Tweets of the Week – 02/17/12 « The Artist's Road I’ve got blogging on the brain, most likely because I’m conducting two different blogging workshops in the next few weeks leading up to the class I’m conducting in April and May. So this week’s list of links on creativity and writing I tweeted this week includes a blogging category, because I was tweeting those as well. So be it. “How to Be a Complete and Utter Creative Failure,”Dan Goodwin, A Big Creative Yes: It’s the same advice entrepreneurs give: Redefine what failure is, take ownership of falling short of your goals, and learn from it.“12 Simple Ways to Unleash More Creative Thinking,” Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: A common element of many of this is that we should break routine.“Brainstorming Addiction: How to Stop Dreaming and Start Doing,” Carla Young, MOMEO Magazine: #1: Shorten your timelines.“A Juggler’s Guide to Creating Time for Creativity,” Sue Mitchell, Your Muse is Calling: Are you a creative who does not wrestle with other obligations of life? Like this:
17 creative websites to bookmark (unless you are dumb)! At the risk of having you never come back to this site, I have compiled a list of 17 other sites to feed your creative appetite. Dozens more could have been added to this list (perhaps there will be a sequel to it). Most of the sites included here do not get the credit they deserve, and even the popular ones deserve even more attention. In no particular order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 20 x 200 – When 20×200 first started prints were available in runs of 200 for the bargain basement price of $20. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. So there’s the list! The Creative Pathfinder When you set out to earn a living from your creative talent, you’re aiming pretty high. Whether you’re an artist, designer, writer, actor, musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur, or working in another creative field, you know that competition is fierce and only stellar work gives you a chance of success. If you’ve been in the business for any length of time, you’ve probably also noticed that creativity is not enough. Like it or not, things like motivating yourself, choosing the right career path, managing your workflow, understanding your intellectual property rights, building a reputation, and convincing others of your worth can make or break your career. But if you’re anything like me, the idea of a conventional job is something to be avoided at all costs. This is why I’m inviting you to become a Creative Pathfinder, and take an alternative route to success… The course is taught by me – Mark McGuinness – based on my 15+ years’ experience of coaching and training creatives of all kinds. P.S.
Category:Creativity Techniques This A to Z of Creativity and Innovation Techniques, provides an introduction to a range of tools and techniques for both idea generation (Creativity) and converting those ideas into reality (Innovation). Like most tools these techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity and innovation techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity / Innovation technique) for each job. This site will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it's best used for cutting paper or putting in nails. For the future, the aim is to also have sub-categories which will identify Techniques for; Problem Definition - including problem analysis, redifinition, and all aspects associated with defining the problem clearly. Subcategories
Are We Being Creative Yet? “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries,” A.A. Milne, of Winnie-the-Pooh fame, once noted. It’s a quotation that is included in all kinds of books, from Meditations for New Parents to The Girls’ Guide to AD/HD, because it provides such solace to the chaotically inclined. But it’s small consolation to anyone responsible for producing creative ideas on a reliable basis. Wouldn’t it be better if exciting discoveries emerged at the end of an orderly process—in other words, one more susceptible to management? Instead, we are stuck with mystery and serendipity, a process so vague that serious students of product development call it the “fuzzy front end” of innovation. Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, helps us appreciate how tricky it will be to apply more discipline to imagination. In the clichéd language of management, this is the science of thinking outside the box. For Vijay V.
Essential Life Skills for Personal Development and Growth Édito | Design de Services, la ressource francophone et collaborative d'une discipline innovante Nous sommes heureux de lancer ce 10 mai 2011 la toute première mouture du récipient commun de la discipline que nous construisons ensemble : le Design de Services. Concentrons-nous justement un instant sur cette expression. Qu'est-ce-que le Design de Services ? Le design de services est une démarche de conception qui a pour fonction d'aider les organisations - entreprises, collectivités locales,... - à concevoir leurs services du point de vue des besoins des utilisateurs. La définition précise de cette discipline émergente (née au début des années 90) est encore débattue au sein d'une communauté grandissante de spécialistes et de sympathisants issus notamment du design, du marketing, des ressources humaines et des sciences sociales. Elle repose cependant sur plusieurs piliers conceptuels énoncés ci-dessous par deux de ses premiers acteurs : "Le design de services s'intéresse à la fonctionnalité et à la forme des services du point de vue des clients. À quoi sert le design de services ? 2.
Intuition and creativity – A “pas de deux” Innovative skills The use of visual stimuli helps us to produce more and better results when we want to create something. Our ability to observe can be translated into inspiration and the best results as referred are often attributed to intuition. We know intuitively or we believe that there is a significant connection between intuition and innovation. To be creative and make our intuition works, we need however to feel some ignorance. But is it true that to create we need to have initially a certain degree of knowledge, but not much, because the abundance of knowledge can inhibit the creative process? Creativity is almost never seen without being accompanied by intuition. “Like the two dancers in a pas de deux, intuition and creativity seem almost as one. They are totally connected to the final show, so to speak. If it is true that to be creative and make our intuition works we need to feel some ignorance, what kind of learning environment we need to innovate? intuitively gifted: 1. 2. 3.
creativelinks Leslie Owen Wilson 1997, 2005, restrictions on usage See companion course WebPages Creative Thinking and Living "Niente Senza Gioia" (nothing without joy) Of all my pages and parts of this website, the biggest surprise was the traffic I have received in the creativity section. I already know, so I will let you ask yourselves the same question, and then ask teachers, school administrators, and politicians. If you try to reach a site that has been hyperlinked and get an error message or a "page not found message," try again later. Have fun browsing and many blessings! Other sites on creativity BellaOnline - The voice of women - This site is quiet comprehensive and has a internal sections, each with an array of topics within a heading. Born to Explore - about the relationship between ADD, ADHD, creativity and personality type. Creativity for Life - A site dedicated to creativity with a list serve option and full of special articles in Creative Problem Solving Group Women and Creativity