How to Turn Obstacles Into Opportunities
Build your creative resilience capabilities We see the world through pre-existing frames and these frames help us interpret reality. Frames provide a [...]
Book Review: Creative Acts for Curious People
Creative Acts for Curious People includes more than eighty assignments that take you deeper into the famed d.School approach to design thinking.
3 Books on Creativity to Help You Flourish in the Future at Work
These books on creativity offer ways business leaders can support creativity, innovation, and talent in the new future of work Big Little Breakthroughs by Josh [...]
Discover the Secrets to a Deeper, Wiser, Creative Life
One thing I know for sure is that my creative practice keeps me grounded and connected to my innermost self, and the larger world. [...]
Writing women’s history: Why you need to write your mother’s story
Marilyn Norry on writing women's history, starting with your mother It never occurred to me to write my mother’s story until I met Marilyn and [...]
Jon Kolko on Creative Clarity & Bringing Creative Thinking Into Your Company
Managing 'wild and unpredictable' creative chaos in business I believe creative chaos is the biggest fear business managers have about creativity. Whenever we get to [...]
Re-Awaken Inspiration, Capture Your Aspirations and Create Your Future
4 Practices to re-awaken inspiration and create your future It has been said that every moment and every day offers us a fresh new [...]
Celebrated Authors Share Their Secrets To Creativity in “Light the Dark” (And We Can All Benefit!)
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Creative Process What inspires you? That is the question Joe Fassler asked 48 of the most celebrated authors [...]
Design of Work Experience: How to Create a Winning Company Culture
Karen Jaw-Madson provides a framework—Design of Work Experience—for culture change based on human-centered design principles Your Workplace Culture Matters. Here's why: It's easy to [...]
Designed Leadership: 5 Lessons in Strategic Design for Entrepreneurs (or Intrapreneurs)
Drawing on the power of strategic design Moura Quayle has had an amazing career as a landscape architect, urban-systems designer, a strategic-design scholar, senior [...]
Book Review: Boost Your Creativity With These 4 Activity Books by Arts Professionals
Take a deep dive into this collection of inspiring books on the creative process by arts professionals and enrich your creative practice
Review of Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
Eric Kandel —a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and neuroscientist—explores the parallels between art and science Art and science have a long interconnected history, and I am [...]
Book Review: The Age of Insight By Eric R. Kandel
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present If you are [...]
Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything – Book review
If you are interested in unlocking your creativity, you will love David Usher’s new book Let the Elephants Run. You can flip through the book [...]
Creative Anarchy: Book Review
Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success When I was a designer of marketing communications in a former [...]
April is Poetry Month: Explore What Poetry Brings to Business
What is Poetry Good for? Here’s what Dylan Thomas had to say about poetry: "Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, [...]
How to Cultivate Your Creative Brain
Dr Shelley Carson has devised a useful framework for developing your creative brain, based on findings from neuro-imaging, psycho-physiological studies, and her own research [...]
Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to myself on beginning a painting
Richard Diebenkorn: Seawall When I studied art at CCA in Oakland California, Richard Diebenkorn was one of my [...]
Books to Stimulate your Imagination
These books will help you see things in new ways: What Poetry Brings to Business By Clare Morgan, with Kirsten Lange and Ted Buswick [...]
Three Books on Creativity to Challenge your Perceptions
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum [...]