Creativity & Ideas

Creativity & Ideas

Messages don’t prompt the brain to action. But as ideas, they do!

Steve Adams
Steve Adams

Popular conference speaker and writer who worked in TV, radio and magazines and as Tearfund’s Head of Global Brand and Communication.

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Zebra Elephants Unique Different

The greatness of art is to find not what is common, but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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Quotesthetics

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer, and the father of American literature and the greatest humorist the United States has produced.

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I start with the laugh and work backwards from there.

Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey

English actor, comedian, musician and singer. Known for creative ways of incorporating music into his comedy.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.

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When our communication fails to progress beyond information, and we don’t change it into idea form, we should not be surprised that response is slow.

Steve Adams
Steve Adams

Popular conference speaker and writer who worked in TV, radio and magazines and as Tearfund’s Head of Global Brand and Communication.

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People Abstract Spookey

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it’s ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

David Carson
David Carson

An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.

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Rules can be broken – but never ignored.

David Jury
David Jury

A writer, award-winning graphic designer and the head of the MA course of Art at the Colchester Institute.

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A fundamental part of creative process is making mistakes together. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

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It’s no secret that inspiration has a will of its own

It’s no secret that inspiration has a will of its own.

It always seems to hit us at the most awkward possible time, often right when we’re in the middle of something. We must be willing to surrender to inspiration when it comes calling. That might mean dropping what we’re doing and changing plans at the last minute.

Source: Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything (Book) by Alan Moore

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