Last week we talked about the importance of avoiding the things which only serve to deepen your creativity rut. This week, I’d like to introduce some ideas which should increase your creativity by giving it a nice little boost. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, feel free to substitute activities for others which sound more appealing. Have fun! 1. Laugh Go to a comedy club Take an improv class Go see…
If you need to be creative, avoid doing these 7 deadly sins Steve Jobs once said, “Creativity is just connecting things.” While being creative can certainly be fun, it can also be hard to find those new connections sometimes. Whether you’re a fellow graphic designer, a student, an engineer or a manager, I’m sure you have run into the problem of trying to solve a problem creatively. And if you’re like most people, you’ve probably…
A-little-known color change/mini history lesson on color psychology. It’s easy to take things for granted. For example, like the obvious given that boys wear blue and girls wear pink. I don’t know about you, but it’s always very frustrating for me when a parent chooses to dress their infant in green or yellow, and I am forced to ask—without using the word “it”—what gender it is. Then they are offended and say, incredulously, “he’s a…
Helvetica. A font by any other name…. You either love it or hate it, or you don’t know what I’m talking about. For the latter group, Helvetica is a sans-serif (and if you don’t know what that is, we’re really in trouble) typeface designed in 1957 by Swiss typographer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. It became an instant sensation and now it’s used for everything from government forms to street signs to logos. The rest…
