Oblique Strategies
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- TheBlueOne
Always found these interesting and good for breaking through creative blocks:
"A set of concepts Brian Eno and his friend Peter Schmidt (a British painter whose works grace the cover of "Evening Star" and whose watercolours decorated the back LP cover of Eno's "Before and After Science" and also appeared as full-size prints in a small number of the original releases) tended to keep... basic working principles which guided them through the kinds of moments of pressure - either working through a heavy painting session or watching the clock tick while you're running up a big buck studio bill. Both Schmidt and Eno realized that the pressures of time tended to steer them away from the ways of thinking they found most productive when the pressure was off. The Strategies were, then, a way to remind themselves of those habits of thinking - to jog the mind."
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrat…
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obl…And neat twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/Oblique_Chirp…
- boobs0
Yeah, I've downloaded a little app to my computer that outputs one strategy at a time when you click it. It's cool.
I'd like to do a similar thing for graphic design, you know?
"Make it really tiny"
"Make the obvious thing illegible"
"Do it twice"
etc.
- Anders0
A version for webdesign:
• Logo needs to be shining
• Make it more Web 3.0
• Animated Gifs are k00l