When I was about 8 years old and in school, whenever we had to queue and wait to go out to play, or for lunch, one of the popular schoolkid type sarcastic chants went “whhhhyyyyyy are we waiiiiiiting, why-eeeeee are we waaaaiiiting”. (There was a second verse, something about slowly [...] Read more »
How To Not Overcomplicate The Uncomplicated
When I was at school in Business Studies, I remember whenever we were set a new project, we’d all rush to our computers, and start on what was obviously the most crucial and urgent part of our project. The front cover! We’d go through dozens of fonts, and colours, and [...] Read more »
Rip Off Your Ragged Old Labels And Run Free
Labels can be so useful. When you go and buy your food and groceries, you can pick out what you need easily by what’s on the label. Imagine going into the canned vegetables aisle of your local supermarket, and none of the tins having any labels. There are just shelves [...] Read more »
How To Build The Bridge To Your Beautiful Creative Future
Do you have big ambitious dreams about all the amazing projects and artworks you want to create? Put aside all those “if onlys“ (If only I had more time, space, ideas, resources, courage, talent… ) and think about what you’d really love your creative life to be like, what kind [...] Read more »
You’re Creative? I Believe You. You’re Not Creative? I Believe You.
The power our thoughts and beliefs have upon how we act and how we behave is vast, and we underestimate it at our peril. How free and creative you feel is almost entirely down to your beliefs about how free and creative you are. Some would go so far as [...] Read more »
Get Lost. Go, Get Lost!
When was the last time you got completely lost in creating something? Or completely lost in any moment? One of the great pleasures of creating is becoming completely immersed in your own world, temporarily immune from everything outside of you. A world where nothing exists but you and your creativity, [...] Read more »
23 Wonderful Ways To Kick Start Your Creativity Today
Have you found your creativity is a bit absent lately? Or even like it upped and disappeared one night without telling you, take a big chunk of your confidence, a bucketful of your self esteem and a few of your favourite clothes, books and memories for good measure? Whether you’re [...] Read more »