Journal
Ideas and inspiration can come from anywhere.
“The mind is like an umbrella. It’s most useful when open.”
Walter Gropius, Founder of the Bauhaus
The Creative Act:
There’s a buzz in the circles I drift around in about this book. It’s a series of short notes on the creative process bound in a minimally designed cover that asks to be held.
Stage 1 of the creative process: Curiosity
We have to go beyond the confines of what we do day to day and hunt out a diverse range of ideas, designs, words and images. To collect as many different dots, so that one day in the future connections are made and something new emerges.
What is creativity?
Einstein said creativity is “knowing how to hide your sources.” I’m going to disobey and openly share my sources. Because that’s an important part of creativity. Copying ideas, mixing them up and making them into something new.