∞ 750 Words

I’ve long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist’s Way called morn­ing pages. Morn­ing pages are three pages of writ­ing done every day, typ­i­cally encour­aged to be in “long hand”, typ­i­cally done in the morn­ing, that can be about any­thing and every­thing that comes into your head. It’s about get­ting it all out of your head, and is not sup­posed to be edited or cen­sored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit... Read More

∞ How to Be Corporate and Still Be Creative

Jason Bow­den: To main­tain your cre­ativ­ity, you have to look beyond the projects in queue. via Web­de­signer Depot.  Read More

Write Off Unproductive Days

There are days when it seems that I can’t get any­thing done, I lack the focus I des­per­ately need. When an unpro­duc­tive day comes along, I choose to write it off. I accept that noth­ing is get­ting done and go do some­thing else. Typ­i­cally I go to the store, run errands, shop online, play games, read news, any­thing that I want — just so long as I am doing some­thing. The still­ness of star­ing at a mon­i­tor, or a blank page is makes me not want to... Read More

∞ Why Design Can’t Be Billed by the Hour

This is a really great arti­cle that is not a typ­i­cal link that I post. The arti­cle talks about why design work is not billed by the hour, and really focuses on how cre­ativ­ity is about more than just sit­ting at a com­puter and design­ing. (also the site has a great easy to read design) via idA­pos­tle.  Read More

∞ 7 Proven Ways to Boost Your Creativity

Ben Rama: The fact is you never stop learn­ing and are never really good enough , if you think youv’e reached your peak – think again because theres always some­one way bet­ter than you. The above quote is from the sev­enth tip which is ‘learn’ and I think it is incred­i­bly impor­tant for any­one to remem­ber in any type of work. Learn­ing always will lead to more cre­ativ­ity, you should never stop learning. via Dig­i­tal Art Empire.  Read More

Increase Your Mental Clarity in Just 15 Minutes

Increase Your Men­tal Clar­ity in Just 15 Min­utes. This is a great tip for free­ing your mind when you seem to be stuck on one thing, or on noth­ing at all. Though I have not used the tech­nique that is laid out in this post, I have been using a sim­i­lar method of brain dump­ing to clear my thoughts.  Read More

Fear of Bad Ideas

Seth Godin: The prob­lem is that you can’t have good ideas unless you’re will­ing to gen­er­ate a lot of bad ones. Sage advice. via Seth’s Blog.  Read More

Using Evernote as a Design Scrapbook

This is a nice post on using Ever­note as a catch all for a Design Scrap­book. I talked about using Swipe Files before, and this is essen­tial what is being done with Ever­note in this case. .  Read More

Eight Ways to Kill an Idea

Eight ways to kill an idea : Great stuff.  Read More

The High Seas Showed Me How Pitifully Unproductive I Am

Glen from LifeDev.net: This is a really inter­est­ing post, how he was able to be far more cre­ative while he was on vaca­tion. He attrib­utes the rea­sons to this out­pour­ing as lack of com­puter (and phones) as well as the per­fect work environment. via LifeDev.  Read More