Turning Loose Thoughts Into Tangible Ideas
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Turning Loose Thoughts Into Tangible Ideas
Forcing the diffused ideas and impressions in your head into a definite statement is an art form. You have to grab hold of what is floating and make it rigid and sharp. It can feel almost embarrassing. Revealing your ignorance with as much vulnerability as possible.
It’s a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, and it can lead to some wild, fun, and most likely impractical ideas. But it can also lead to some that seem like common sense—the kinds of ideas that might be way off your radar and yet make you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Simon Steinhardt • Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers
Assuming that we decide to move forward with our idea, there will next be a period of gestation in which the idea takes form. This is the real work of creating. We gradually develop the idea, building on the initial inspiration, refining it through multiple iterations.
Todd Henry • The Accidental Creative
Forcing the diffuse ideas and impressions in your head into a definite statement is an art form. You have to grab hold of what is floating and make it rigid and sharp. It can feel almost embarrassing, revealing your ignorance with as much vulnerability as possible.
Henrik Karlsson • How to Think in Writing
The art of stepping into an idea continues with seeking to understand. To spend the time to ensure that we have correctly understood the creative intent. For the fact of the matter is that until work is fully produced much of that intent resides in creative minds - not on the page or on the screen. Found imagery and footage, Midjourney renders,... See more