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Tweets
Begining July 13, 2009 to August 23, 2009
Inspiration: Finely made craft toys. The cleverness in the use of motion, perceptions and visuals can be vivid. Alt source: magic tricks.
Theater set is good example of deriving meaning for context and cheap materials. What can your designs Learn from theater
Watching dress rehersal for "Isaiah" at CPCC Halton Theater Main Campus. Show is lively! Carribean music and theater theology. Come for 2:00
Inspiration is non-linear. You can go from one item to another idea instantaneously with no line of any kind required. Intuitive leaps rule!
Ok I'll clarify. the design process is a circular pattern or increasing density of information and decision making from thought to brick.
woman says today with disgust, "Architecture is linear." She has been poorly taught. All my architecture is non linear. It spirals. Yours?
Meaning can be derived by defining new contexts for the same imagery. Or let new imagery evolve from new context of same concerns.
Inspiration source: the counter intuitive. Try representing security by modeling support for flight not fight. Makes you want to run away?
Inspiration Tool: Go to a familiar setting at not your usual time to be there. Look deeply for qualitative changes.
Public spaces can do this. Different quality in day or night count too.
Flexible space can mean a space that is as comfortable to be in alone as it is with 100 friends. Public
You know constraints prompt excellence in design. Why consider meaning an artificial constraint? Is zoning more real?
Creativity feeds creativity. What have you surrounded yourself with. Are you well fed?
To understand comfort and what it requires, travel til near exhaustion and note your desires. Interaction? Or objects? Or a bit of both?
Weddings and other celebrations are focus points for meaning in life. How do your designs respond beyond the church or courthouse?
Change your perspective today! Lay somewhere low and think up. Or steep and high &think down. Or wide and think over. How should you design?
The mother of invention sometimes has the bastard sons of aesthetics. Be careful not to sacrifice concept by simple laziness. Think better!
Excellence in creativity is not so much creating the previously undreamed of as dreaming of old things in new ways for new understandings.
inspiration from failure? Of Course. Most concepts can not be perfectly achieved. Let go the difference. Let it be inspiration for another
I saw on creativepro.com one person got inspiration from a flea market. Have you tried looking in an unexpected place for inspiration?
think you know your creatives? Do you Know their individual Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats? "Great!" or is that "Why Not?"
Creativity is about making new associations with familiar things. Exercise. Take 5 items in view right now and weave them into 1 story.
Sorry about Sunday. Here Ya go. Not every day is a runners best. Same with creatives. Sometimes you need to let it rest for a day or five.
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