Do you like rocket ships, astronauts, alien planets as well as incredible artwork, design and typography? Check out the new “space tourism” posters commissioned by NASA by the award winning design studio “Invisible Creature”. (and yes, I bought one, and it looks incredible.)
One of the best things we can do as we pursue creativity, is to champion, celebrate and share the work of others. The idea that truly creative work is born out of nothing more than the artist’s internal creative genius has been around a long time. It’s also wrong. Creativity doesn’t happen in a vacuum. We’re all inspired by the world around us in different ways, and our ideas can be shaped by everything and anything. I recently came across the work of a painter,…
“’Fake it ’til you make it.’ I love this phrase. There are two ways to read it: 1.Pretend to be something you’re not until you are–fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them to; or 2. Pretend to be making something until you actually make something. I love both readings—you have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing…
I’ve been reading a lot of different books about creativity recently. It’s an elusive and fascinating topic. And it’s a topic that’s essential for anyone that has a creative career or pursuit, whether you’re a photographer, designer, musician, or actor, whether it’s your career or it’s a creative outlet. I believe you can have an impressive set of tools and skills, be armed with technical prowess and experience, but it’s true creativity that will take your work to the next level. I’d like…
“The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To resist the urge to self-censor. To not-give-a-shit what anybody thinks. That’s why children are so good at it. And why people with Volkswagens, and mortgages, Personal Equity Plans and matching Lois Vutton luggage are not.” . Linds Redding This quote is taken from the blog of Linds Redding, a former creative director in the advertising industry who has been struggling…