Design Creativity Exercises
Unleash your imagination and break creative blocks. Get tips and tricks to develop graphic design ideas and get inspired.
Photographic Meditations on Color and Shape
A collection of photographs that explore color and shape.
A collection of photographs that explore color and shape.
Ways to Kickstart Your Creativity
Stuck for an idea? Don't know where to start? Kickstart your brain and your desktop publishing projects with creative thinking, books, creativity exercises, sketches, and templates.
Stuck for an idea? Don't know where to start? Kickstart your brain and your desktop publishing projects with creative thinking, books, creativity exercises, sketches, and templates.
Books on Design Creativity and Finding Graphic Design Inspiration
Where do you get ideas? Where do you find inspiration? Whether you come up with your design ideas by looking at the work of others, studying how other designers approach the design process, or by looking at pictures or the world around you, one of these books is sure to provide just the right type of brainstorming and creativity boost you need.
Where do you get ideas? Where do you find inspiration? Whether you come up with your design ideas by looking at the work of others, studying how other designers approach the design process, or by looking at pictures or the world around you, one of these books is sure to provide just the right type of brainstorming and creativity boost you need.
5 Creative Thinking Steps to Generate Design and Business Ideas
We all have some level of creativity within us. As with other activities, you can teach yourself to engage in more creative thinking. Sometimes creativity requires us to look at things from new perspectives. Learn to unleash your inventive genius by thinking backwards. Here is an appropriate acronym containing five steps to creative thinking -- S A E D I -- that's IDEAS backwards
We all have some level of creativity within us. As with other activities, you can teach yourself to engage in more creative thinking. Sometimes creativity requires us to look at things from new perspectives. Learn to unleash your inventive genius by thinking backwards. Here is an appropriate acronym containing five steps to creative thinking -- S A E D I -- that's IDEAS backwards
Brainstorm Bungy for Windows
Want a little software help to get the creative juices flowing? Use Brainstorm Bungy for group brainstorming. It provides a simple, fun, and flexible means of recording a group's ideas and then evaluating them against agreed and weighted criteria. Trial version available.
Want a little software help to get the creative juices flowing? Use Brainstorm Bungy for group brainstorming. It provides a simple, fun, and flexible means of recording a group's ideas and then evaluating them against agreed and weighted criteria. Trial version available.
Creative Breath
Ideas just not coming? Take a deep breath... Enchanted Mind has breathing exercises to help you clear your mind then fill your mind.
Ideas just not coming? Take a deep breath... Enchanted Mind has breathing exercises to help you clear your mind then fill your mind.
Creative concept - a method
Carole Guevin describes a method of going from blank page to creative concept.
Carole Guevin describes a method of going from blank page to creative concept.
Creative Illusion
You can't always trust your eyes as these examples at Enchanted Mind illustrate.
You can't always trust your eyes as these examples at Enchanted Mind illustrate.
Creative Tools and Techniques
Enchanted Mind discusses techniques such as creative mathematics, creative illusions, creative chess, and the art of doodling.
Enchanted Mind discusses techniques such as creative mathematics, creative illusions, creative chess, and the art of doodling.
Don't kid yourself
Have you developed your own signature style or has your work just become repetitive, boring?
Have you developed your own signature style or has your work just become repetitive, boring?
Doodle Exercises
Start with a scribble. JPB Creative illustrates the "fine art" of doodling. See where it can take you.
Start with a scribble. JPB Creative illustrates the "fine art" of doodling. See where it can take you.
Fighting Burnout
When burnout threatens to delay a project, turn to these 20 ways to find inspiration. From Ozonline.
When burnout threatens to delay a project, turn to these 20 ways to find inspiration. From Ozonline.
Garden of Creativity
At Eyewire find inspiring words from Napoleon, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others.
At Eyewire find inspiring words from Napoleon, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others.
Hitting the Wall
At Creative Latitude William Johnston encourages designers to overcome career stalls, creative blocks.
At Creative Latitude William Johnston encourages designers to overcome career stalls, creative blocks.
Idea Workout Gym
Engage your brain at the Innovation Network. Mouse around for quick tips and advice.
Engage your brain at the Innovation Network. Mouse around for quick tips and advice.
Ideas! A closer look at creativity
Carole Guevin tells designers how to become better at generating ideas.
Carole Guevin tells designers how to become better at generating ideas.
More Brain, Less Storm
Michael Flanagan tells us How to think creatively about thinking creatively.
Michael Flanagan tells us How to think creatively about thinking creatively.
Right vs. Left Brain
See which side of your brain processes and recognizes faces, numbers, time, and creativity. From Encyclopedia of Educational Technology.
See which side of your brain processes and recognizes faces, numbers, time, and creativity. From Encyclopedia of Educational Technology.
Studies in Genius: M.C. Escher
Enchanted Mind says his work is "a perfect example of living creativity in pictoral form."
Enchanted Mind says his work is "a perfect example of living creativity in pictoral form."
The Art of Doodling
Artist or not, you can "nurture the creative process" by doodling. From Enchanted Mind.
Artist or not, you can "nurture the creative process" by doodling. From Enchanted Mind.
The Projector
Use your imagination and learn how pressure (vs. tension) can help you complete the project.
Use your imagination and learn how pressure (vs. tension) can help you complete the project.
The Step-by-Step Guide to Brainstorming
It takes more than just "thinking about it." Learn how to brainstorm effectively at JPB Creative.
It takes more than just "thinking about it." Learn how to brainstorm effectively at JPB Creative.
Whatagreatidea.com
Stuck? Think opposites. Shake the tree. Ask questions. Try out some of the inspiring ideas at this site.
Stuck? Think opposites. Shake the tree. Ask questions. Try out some of the inspiring ideas at this site.
Where Do You Find Inspiration?
At Poynter Online Anne Conneen lists some ways she finds inspiration from old photos and postcards to clocks, books, and Web sites.
At Poynter Online Anne Conneen lists some ways she finds inspiration from old photos and postcards to clocks, books, and Web sites.
White Page Syndrome
This editorial at Whiskey Creek Document Design explores the ways that both writers and designer's can overcome "creative block" to get started on a project.
This editorial at Whiskey Creek Document Design explores the ways that both writers and designer's can overcome "creative block" to get started on a project.