The Design Files: Blog by Lucy Feagins
Also: Creative Commons Australia
Creative Commons Salons in San Francisco is an event streamed live (and archived) on Ustream
Previous Salon example: Recorded on 9/20/10
Rhizome.org: new media website
“RHIZOME is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.”
Lego Serious Play Research Projects
An Art Lab project at the University of Westminster, creative visual research on media and identities. About using Lego in research:
“…asked a diverse range of people to build metaphorical models of their identities, in Lego.”
33 Ways To Stay Creative
by an anonymous author.
I found this on the My Modern Metropolis site, posted by Eugene.
A private collection of contemporary Chinese art, made public.
This is a great gallery with amazing exhibitions. If you are in Sydney it is definitely worth a look.
An art community website
‘Beautiful photography, incredible art and clever design. That pretty much sums it up. My Modern Met is where art enthusiasts and trendspotters connect over creative ideas.’
Definitely worth a look. Has some amazing things, inspiring work… and more.
Open IDEO: ‘where people design better, together’
Website about design, design thinking and different contexts for designing
Creative Process
Inspiration is an important part of the design process. Part of the: look, notice, ponder. Explore widely, collecting interesting things both relevant and irrelevant, find exemplars. Vivienne Westwood talks about ‘what you put in’ as determining the nature of ‘what you get out’ (eg. ‘nothing comes from nothing’). So this part of the creative process is about the stuff you put in your head which gets mashed together into the ‘mental machinery’ for creating something new.
See: blog entry on 15 incredible sites to visit for design inspiration from the TWN website
