Creative Thinking
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- philkiel
Any tips on improving it?
- mg330
- ukit0
The act of drawing helps.
- francoisfido0
- check out:
'lateral thinking' by edward de bonofrancoisfido
- check out:
- jgrillo0
linear thinking: one thought or direction with a million variations. You might think you have many ideas, but its just changing one idea various times.
lateral thinking is the opposite. Instead of refining and changing that one idea, you come up with as many completely different ideas as you can. It helps to think about whatever it is your creating from various viewpoints to create various interpretations on the subject.
I had a workshop with anette lenz and her way of lateral thinking was creating a huge list of everything that had to do with the subject of her project. Then made another one from someone elses viewpoint. Example flowers: you write everything you can think of that has to do with flowers, then you switch & make a list from the point of view of the flower itself, then the point of view of a florist. In the end you take 3 items off of the entire group of lists (3 lists & 1 word from each works nicely) and use it as the basis for whatever your making. If you get distracted, go back to the 3 words.
Strange, but it worked well.
- jgrillo0
reading alot helps too.
- johfiner0
Drawing, especially thumbnails.
- Pupsipu0
wheres that article about the creative brain chemical, there is one. If you're dumb it helps you come up with ideas, if you're smart it doesn't matter.
- fresnobob0
"Drop out of life with bong in hand..."
-Sleep"Korzybski's Science and Sanity. I was in engineering school and I picked up the book in the Brooklyn Public Library. He talked about different levels of organization in the brain-animal circuits, human circuits and so on. And he talked a lot about getting back to the non-verbal level and being able to perceive without talking to yourself while you're perceiving.
It was 1957. I was very interested in jazz at that time, and I told a black friend about some of Korzybski's exercises to get to the non-verbal level, and he said, "Oh, I do that every time I smoke pot." I got interested. I said, "Could I buy one of these marijuana cigarettes from you?" He said, "Oh hell, I'11 give it to you free." And so I smoked it.
I found myself looking at a quarter I found in my pocket and realizing I hadn't looked at a quarter in twenty years or so, the way a child looks at a quarter. So I decided marijuana was doing pretty much the same thing Korzybski was trying to do with his training devices. Then shortly after that I heard a lecture by Alan Watts, and I realized that Zen, marijuana and Korzybski were all relating the same transformations of consciousness. That was the beginning."
-Robert Anton Wilson
- Llyod0
I've found that thinking in reverse works.
- Llyod0
example: think about how people communicate and think these days. they think and talk in blurbs. so build a site that allows people to do this. and violas, you have twitter.
- InfinityFresh0
doodle with nothing in mind. smooth lines only. you'll find it.
- boobs0
If you aren't doing something different, you really aren't doing anything at all.
--Sam Phillips
- Brian_Piper0
Yes, draw, write and do it without thinking so hard. Study and try to dissect the best design & advertising from way back till now. Work together with a good copywriter.
- mydo0
analyse every piece of design and advertising you see until it takes over your life. have breakdown. consider change of career. drink a huge cup of coffee....
...and then you're ready.
- grumpymonkey0
http://lawsofsimplicity.com/ and
http://www.mycoted.com/Category:…
are some good infos.
- vaxorcist0
Staying away from account people for a while always works for me...
- laurus0
Read the book "brain rules"
- cannonball0
Not being afraid.