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Creativity isn’t a LinkedIn title. It’s a way of seeing, connecting, making. You can be deeply creative without making a cent off it. In fact, you might be more creative that way. A creative career is tied to output, performance, and often external validation. A creative practice is internal. Ritualistic. Personal.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light, and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to y
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i think the hardest part about connection is realizing just how rare it is to be understood. not just liked, not just tolerated, but felt. it’s someone who gets it, reaching into the quietest part of you and saying, “i know this place too.” and when you do find that feeling, even for a moment, it changes you. you start craving it everywhere.
jerichosubstack.comAll of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing. W... See more
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing. W... See more
Jenny Wen • Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process
Human expression was perfected into pithy thought-capsules (Twitter, LinkedIn), glamour shots (Instagram), and performative soundbites (TikTok), all perfect carriers for human emotions and — most importantly — ADVERTISING, which we were also now expected to do, newly equipped with our “personal brands.”
The dominance of these formats and mindset mad... See more
The dominance of these formats and mindset mad... See more
Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
read (articles, books – or take in other forms of texts like art and music) as much as you write. but write (think, converse, ideate) as much as you read (scroll) too.
I cannot be your mentor, here’s everything I know – adrienne maree brown
Testing ideas by experiment is essential — what else are you going to rely on, authority figures? But what kind of ideas are tested by experiment? Science can’t answer normative ideas, like “how should I raise my child?” or “what kind of hat is best?” It also can’t answer semantic ideas like “is a hot dog a sandwich?”
room-for-leftovers | Are.na
How do we define the value of creative effort during a time when “effortless creative” is becoming the norm? I think we need to appreciate the slow marination of ideas that become subject to many random forces.
John Maedax.com