I missed this week’s workshop due to a random unplanned business trip. Fortunately, my colleage Nick Wai filled me in on the random calendar exercise:
To build a calendar with a random word for each day (ie. have fun flipping through the dictionary.)
Then, incorporate each day’s word into a daily theme of something to vary […]
Thanks to Anna Pinsky for this fine artwork and creativity idea.
As kids (and apparently as adults), one art activity is to rub a crayon over a leaf to form an intricate pattern, in similar fashion to its medieval brass rubbing cousin.
Insights:
Bigger picture #1: The leaf-rubbing activity can expanded to include the possibility of taking common […]
In round 2 of the Ideas Workshop we explored idea creation through combinations. The exercises included:
Taking two disjoint ideas and combine them in as many ways as possible.
Combining unrelated images and captions.
Word creation: on one sheet of paper, make a list of word beginnings around a theme, one per line, on the right edge […]
Painting is a unique opportunity watch a picture unfold on the page. Visually, we experience color and tone everywhere, but our mind quickly translates these images into words and concepts to understand and interact with them. Soon as we label an object, “the tree”, “a bus”, “Mr. Anderson”… the unique experience is gone.
One […]
The ideas workshops kicked off last night, with an excellent session on improving brainstorm by utilizing visualization. For each idea we came up with, we had to draw a quick sketch to represent it.
To generate ideas we took an every-day item and tried three different approaches:
brainstorming alternate uses
designing improvements
building swiss-army knife […]
The number one way to stimulate creativity is to do something different.Being a rainy morning in London, I thought, why not walk to work in the rain instead of taking the crowded bus - and see if I could notice something new. I never really paid attention to the patterns of the rain hitting […]
