Archive for creativity

Guerrilla designers

Posted in Urban Spaces, design with tags , , on July 15, 2009 by db

From Guerrilla Typography designer Cardon Webb is tarting up the neighbourhood:

“Cardon Copy, takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear-offs we have all seen in our neighborhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them, over powering their message with a new visual language. I then replace the original with the redesign in its authentic environment.”

“The Beckoning of Lovely”

Posted in Urban Spaces with tags , , , , , on June 10, 2009 by db
Little Pea

Little Pea

Amy Krouse Rosenthal children’s book author has “beckoned the lovely” in a 2008 invitation on Youtube for others to join her in a collaborative “making of things”, a continuing story found here in a series of video clips. Wonderful connections: books, children, people, collaborative learning, performance, art and community. And a continuing story.

Creative thinking and living abroad

Posted in Ideas, art with tags , on May 19, 2009 by db

 

 The Economist suggests there is a link based on a study in the Journal of Picasso 1954Personality and Social Psychology: The statistical relationship between living abroad and creativity remained, whatever the personality or inclinations of the subject were prior, indicating that it is something from the experience of living in foreign parts that helps foster creativity.