Final post (for today!) on reusing books:
The retailer Anthropologie (previously here), known for its wildly creative window displays, put dozens of altered books to use in this store display.
If you’d like to try your hand at making folded-page objects*, check out patterns — hearts! skulls! Christmas trees! — featured on the Rhymes With Magic blog here.
Also, this Sutherland Library video provides simple folding instructions.
(Photos: Top, via Apartment Therapy; center, Rhymes With Magic blog; bottom, Apartment Therapy. Book-folding links spotted previously on Candoodles blog.)
*Note: Unconsumption caveat on using books as raw material.
Inspiration: look at something a little differently today.
But real innovation is hard. You have to turn your assumptions upside down and question what you “know” the “facts” to be. You also have to get your ego out of the way.
- Want employees to innovate? Bury your ego.
Monday Morning Inspiration
(via worldfuturetrends)
(via worldfuturetrends)
If you are constantly monitoring how people achieve their goals, then you are checking up. This is classic micromanagement, which makes people feel that their judgment, talents, and skills are not valued; it also constrains experimentation. As a result, it kills both motivation and creativity.Checking In with Employees (Versus Checking Up)
A collection by Edward Purcell of incredibly interesting, incredibly insightful and incredibly educational problems worked out as if on the back of an envelope.
Some favorites:
Creativity challenge of the day: take a moment to participate in the “Eric The Circle” challenge. Eric comes with some specific rules, but within those rules your creation can be anything. What will you draw?
In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.Dreamers and Storytellers – legendary Harvard sociobiologist E. O. Wilson on art and reconciling science and the humanities (via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
There’s just one small problem: The creative pause might soon become a thing of the past. When was the last time you remember being bored? Or even having a moment free from distractions?Want To Be More Creative? Get Bored on Fast Company
Simon has said that he never wanted to see the camera “fish” on the show: ”I never wanted to see the camera know more than it ought to know.” The result is, for example, that during a conversation, the camera moves to the next speaker after he has started speaking, not before, as it would in a documentary.
A Norwegian academic breaks down the visual style of The Wire and in so doing, illustrates why creative integrity matters. Read on->
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”
-John Cleese shares 5 factors to make your life more creative in this classic 1991 talk. (via explore-blog)
Creativity can be taught.
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