Today, I am hosting Mark Bradford in the "How I Work" series. Mark is a designer exploring leadership within creative practice through both theoretical and applied design research. He just passed his PhD(Business) in February this year. His thesis titled…
Today, in the "How I Work" series, I am interviewing Helena Hendrika. Helene, 24 years old, is an Illustrator & graphic designer, teacher and student. Time management is something she works on a lot because she's always busy. Besides that…
Today, I have a special guest in the "How I Work" series. I am interviewing Stevie Moore, an artist, who shares his thoughts on workflow processes for creative work. Stephen (Stevie) R. Moore is a Lexington Kentucky artist and illustrator…
Time ago, I won by chance a one-month course on creativity from Melissa Dinwiddie, and I planned to write about this course and lessons about creativity for quite some time.One of the most powerful elements in Dinwiddie's course is her…
I recently read a post on MindBodyGreen about "The Daily Habits Of Highly Creative People", which included the following infographic:What can we learn from these great examples for academia?1. ExerciseAlmost all great minds used to go at some point during…
As a child, reading was one of my favorite pass-times. I bonded with one of my best friends as we discovered we both liked the same author. During the summer holidays, I could easily sit in the garden all day…
Flickr image under CC license by HaPe_GeraI've frequently written here on the benefits of meditation for your brain and your heart, how you can make meditation a habit and my personal explorations. In my opinion, meditation is the necessary exercise…
In our fast-paced, instant-solution-oriented society, we are focused on a quick fix and a hit of stimulant. We seek comfort and ease as much as we can.Yet, if we embark upon long-term projects, such as PhD research, our habits of…
When you force yourself to work on a research problem, until you find the solution, you might be putting too much pressure on yourself and actually hurting your creative process.Instead, you should try to take a few days of distance…
Head over to Brazen today for my guest post on creativity!Giving you a little appetizer of the post here:
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