According to a recent Newsweek article, brainstorming became popular in 1953 but was proven to reduce a group’s creative output only 5 years later. If this is true, doesn’t it make you wonder why we keep doing it? It’s also been found that half of the ways we use to boost creative output have a negative effect!
Creative Designer Workspaces – What’s Yours?
What’s your creative workspace look like? Is it functional (or dysfunctional)?
Love to see them!
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3 Things I’ve Learned About My Creative Process
Albert Einstein once said:
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
The idea of a standard or sure fire means of a successful creative process is contradictory in its very nature. The idea of confining the creative process to a set standard, jamming it into a box, will only result in creating the same or similar thing over and over. It you want to cut out cookies, use a cookie cutter.
If you want to create, eat the cookies while drinking your coffee.
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Free Online Money Management Tool for Freelancers, Others
Looking for a free web app for simply tracking revenue and expenses? Sometimes, especially if you’re just starting out, you don’t need something too crazy to get started.
Try MoneyTrackin’ which can even allow you to share budgets and collaborate with others on the same account. It’s even got a mobile app too!
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Collaboration & Creativity; A Match Made In Heaven
Which sounds nice, right?
Unless you are a media ninja like me who tends to script, setup, shoot, edit and do their own voice-overs.
(The voice-overs aren’t good either, trust me. Even I can’t listen to them without cringing)
But the more I operate in the role as a ‘church creative’, the more I have learned that it is all about collaboration.
And as I look back over Christmas or even our current dramatized series about the life of King David, it really was/is: set design, worship elements, sermon illustrations, openers and drama.
As a skeptic of collaboration, I learned a few things.
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One Creative Process for Creating Websites
The ‘creative process’ for many web designers and developer is as unique as the people behind them and it’s always good to see and read about other’s perspectives.
Here’s a great one that provides a soup-to-nuts approach that’s well worth a read for both new designers and developers and seasoned ones, if only to challenge and refine your own process.
Take a look here.