Apparently people will derive greater enjoyment from viewing works of arts if they have not been offered a prior interpretation of a work’s meaning, or the artist’s creative intentions.
“Providing contextual information led to participants perceiving examples of the various styles of art as matching less well with their internal standards than when no contextual [...]

25 artists and creatives talk about how they deal with creative block.

Has the advent of the “citizen content producer”, who can be aided simply by the publishing capabilities of a mobile phone with a camera and video recorder, brought about the end of the “creative professional”?
As Henry Jenkins pointed out in Textual Poachers and as I labored to point out in Plenitude, the distinction between [...]

On the whole it seems people are all for creativity and innovation so long as such activity doesn’t result in too much… creativity and innovation.
So really, what we are being told is, “be creative, but not TOO creative”. Any creative ideas that attempt to shift the current paradigm or reject a paradigm completely are [...]

An illustrated guide to seven ways to kill an idea… ah yes, reality as usual gets in the way. Be sure to look at the larger image.
Via Coudal Partners.

Our day-to-day workflow has (probably) always been unpredictable but has “the internet” in the form of email, surfing, instant messaging, and social media, made that flow – quite literally – more disruptive?
Without realizing it, most of us have entered the new era of what I call “reactionary workflow.” Rather than being proactive with our [...]

How’s this for a take on free downloadable music… a single – or even an album – has become like an enticement to buy tickets to see artists or bands perform live.
Thus, artists like Radiohead, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Prince are all divorcing themselves from their traditional music labels and are, [...]

Everyone has at least three vices (or should) as the saying goes, “creative” people however are permitted to have seven…
If anyone should still be left unconvinced on the benefits of pursuing these vices, let us remember these sage words of Abraham Lincoln: “It has been my experience that those with no vices have very few [...]

To optimise our creative output we should paint our workspaces blue and fit them out with ornaments from, and pictures of, foreign places.

If reading corporate annual reports or mission statements isn’t your thing, perhaps seeing them presented as poetry would make them a tad more palatable?
Corpoetics is a collection of “found” poetry from the websites of well-known brands and corporations. I visited various company websites, found the closest thing to a Corporate Overview, then set about rearranging [...]