Creative Development

6 Ways to Improve Your Creative Writing Skill

Creative writing as a skill that needs constant practice to become a more effective communicator. Although challenging, there are a number of ideas to keep in mind in order to achieve consistency and improvement. Below are just a few ways to improve creative writing skills, especially for careers like copywriting and advertising, where your skill […]

“Creativity is as important as literacy…”

In one of my favorite TED talk videos, Ken Robinson discusses how the education system affects our creativity. He challenges us to rethink our educational focus on creativity and intelligence. “Creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” – Sir Ken Robinson This is a great presentation! Robinson […]

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The “Danger of a Single Story”

The “Danger of a Single Story”   Chimamanda Adichie’s The “Danger of a Single Story” is a really powerful speech that addresses the bias people all over the world are subjected to on various topics solely because of what they get to read, consciously or subconsciously. Some stories are so one dimensioned that people end up making […]

Ebb & Flow of Daydreams: How My Creativity Works

Ebb & Flow of Daydreams: How My Creativity Work Want to get to know me, on the creative side? Check out 3 things that rev my engine, and the other 3 things that make me run out of gas. What keeps me starstruck and wide-eyed:   Motion & White Noise I gain traction in constant […]

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7 Easy Steps to Screen Print Fun and Creative Designs

Screen Printing is widely known for in the custom t-shirt business, however, it also a medium for artists to express their ideas. American screen printer, Andy Warhol, is just one example. Just as Warhol did, screen printing is a production technique that can be used on posters to communicate thoughts,  feelings and ideas. The beauty […]

By |2015-03-10T12:49:25-04:00March 10th, 2015|Creative Development, Creative Freedom, Uncategorized|Comments Off on 7 Easy Steps to Screen Print Fun and Creative Designs

7 Simple Tips That Will Boost and Inspire Your Creative Skills

7 Tips Simple That Will Boost and Inspire Your Creative Skills Inspiration is an important factor to get the best out of our creativity. Without inspiration, creativity grinds to a halt and we can barely think or create. Involving ourselves in a couple of activities can help bring out the best out of our creative […]

10 credo’s for the aspiring creative mind

In a busy, fast-paced world our creativity and thought processing gets cloudy. For this purpose, formulating  a personal manifesto can relieve some of those stresses. Discovering one’s own credo can help you stay motivated and focused towards your goals. Here are a few tips on how to get out of those hazy moments and help you stay on a successful creative […]

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How to Write Memorable Copy

Take it from a copywriter: our job may not be as time-consuming as other ones in the creative industry, but that doesn’t make it easy by any stretch of the imagination. When you write copy for a brand, you’re not just stringing words together because you think they sound cute or clever; rather, you’re setting […]

By |2015-03-05T07:08:57-05:00March 5th, 2015|Advertising, Creative Development, Fun with words and Copy Writing, The life of a Creative, Tips and Short cuts, Uncategorized|Comments Off on How to Write Memorable Copy

7 Signs You’re Conquering the Creative Manifesto

Here’s the thing about the creative process it is a master of playing hard to get. When you need it, it is completely unavailable, and arrives unannounced. So understandably, there are a few proclamations to be made when it comes to creativity, but the following are the only truths a true creative will manifest. 1. […]

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Claude Shannon Instigates My Creative Journey

Claude Shannon Instigates My Creative Journey Claude Shannon and his mathematical theory of communication was actually an indirect precipitator of my creative journey. I say this because, although I’ve been artistically inclined all my life, last year when I read a brief passage on information theory and entropy in a biochemistry book, my career path […]

By |2015-03-03T18:04:28-05:00March 3rd, 2015|Creative Development, Creative Freedom, The life of a Creative, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Claude Shannon Instigates My Creative Journey