More On Creativity

There are a lot of exercises that u are supposed to be able to do in order to boost your creativity, or to focus it more productively. In design school we learned various methods, including mind-mapping, probes, visual journaling, sketching, brainstorming, etc. I've always found all these methods both fascinating and a little repugnant; wanting to be good at them, but never quite believing that they "work" as their "results" are so subjective. Sometimes they just felt like ways to tie down what ought to be a free-form, intuitive process, rather than methods for encouraging the kinds of leaps and bounds you want your imagination to make during the creative process. 

Coming down on the hearts-and-roses side of  this love/hate relationship is Decor8 blogger Holly Becker's new (reinstated) Creativity Series, the third installment of which went up today. It's kind of like a practical guide to inspiration - definitely up to the usual (extremely high/awesome) Decor8 standard:)