Blogs about: Nature Of Creativity
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Art + Innovation + Typewriter = Inspiration
Paul Smith's "Old Mill" Paul Smith. The name is simple, common. A google search of the name yields 69 million hits (mine yields 417,000). There is one Paul Smith that was anything but c… more →
ZenStorming - Where Science Meets Muse...
Art + Innovation + Typewriter = Inspiration
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Plish wrote 1 month ago: Paul Smith's "Old Mill" Paul Smith. The name is simple, common. A google search of the … more →
A View of Design Synthesis
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Plish wrote 1 month ago: Ever since I attended the Design Research Conference in Chicago, I’ve been inspired by Jon Kol … more →
The Necessity of Reclaiming Drawing and Art as Tools for Communication
Plish wrote 1 month ago: Drawing -The Distinctly Human Endeavor Long before humans were writing eloquent words with pen and p … more →
The Beginnings of Design/Innovation
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Plish wrote 2 months ago: I made the above sketch while listening to a panel discussion with David Armano, Dan Saffer, Jon Ko … more →
Innovation Requires Authenticity - You Can't Think Cool Ideas if You're Wondering What Others Think
Plish wrote 3 months ago: It’s unfortunately common for us to be concerned about what others think about us. After all, … more →
Map of Creative Process
Plish wrote 3 months ago: Click for Larger Version What do you think of this as a description of the creative process? Some o … more →
Intensity Key to Repeatable Results
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Plish wrote 3 months ago: The Chicago White Sox, my favorite baseball team, have hit the skids in their quest to win the divis … more →
Walking Backwards to a Solution
Plish wrote 4 months ago: Dutch researchers found walking backwards may help with problem solving. … more →
Creativity in the Silence...
Plish wrote 4 months ago: I’ve always been a huge proponent of the need to quiet one’s self… to center to be … more →
Using Distance to Increase Creativity
Plish wrote 4 months ago: A company was manufacturing pens and a key automated assembly machine was causing problems, slowing … more →
Want to be an Innovation Powerhouse? Take a Vacation!
Plish wrote 5 months ago: Great article over at the Huffington Post about the need for people to take vacations. In fact, in … more →
Want an Example of an Elegant Idea? Watch The Soaps
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Plish wrote 5 months ago: When a design has it, it’s clear. There’s something special and wondrous about a solu … more →
Invention the Mother of Economic Recovery
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Plish wrote 5 months ago: Great Op-Ed piece over at the New York times. Thomas Friedman, inspired by a conference he recently … more →
People of Hope are More Creative
Plish wrote 6 months ago: Came across this interesting blog post over at “Innovation in Practice”. There was a s … more →
First Ideas are Dangerous; Successive Generations Are the Stuff of Innovation
Plish wrote 6 months ago: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one you have” -Emile Chartie … more →
Cross-Cultural Immersion to Boost Creativity
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Plish wrote 6 months ago: Read this thought provoking study about how people who have to move to, and live in a different coun … more →
Finding Inspiration (and Innovation) in Parallel Universes
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Plish wrote 6 months ago: 13 years and over 6000 miles separates the same idea Often inspiration can come from very different … more →
If Creativity is for the Birds, it Should be for People Too
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Plish wrote 6 months ago: Lesson in Creativity From the Rook It is not uncommon for management, team leaders, etc. to have a p … more →
What does your 'Creativity Alphabet' Look Like?
Plish wrote 7 months ago: Came across the above video “F is for Fail- An Alphabetical Odyssey Through the Creative Proce … more →
