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  • Creative Truth: Get the Best Equipment

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    I have always worked for others who understood that having the best tools, investing in your craft and not skimping on what you need to get your work done always pays off. Whether it’s computer equipment or pens and paper, it’s always the same. Cheap tools mean more time and hassle later on. I have…

  • Creative Truth: Embrace Problems

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        A core part of my design training was to understand and love problems. Problems demand design. Since there are always problems, there will always be a demand for designers because our purpose is to create solutions to problems, especially solutions that are beautiful and smart. I keep a notebook of problems. I got…

  • Find Three Things

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    Early advice. Simple and effective. Difficult to follow for workaholics and curious types. Do it.

  • Creative Truth: Simple by Design

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    Simplicity is so much more direct, clear and graspable. Perhaps that’s why it is such a successful approach to design. When I think of Shaker furniture and Agnes Martin and I see the beauty of simplicity. I know how difficult it can be to achieve, which is all the more reason to strive for it.…

  • Creative Truth: Ideas are a Dime A Dozen

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    It was a rude awakening when a professor of mine said to me, “Ideas are a dime a dozen.” And they were right. People come up with ideas all day long and many of them are good ideas. However, anyone can have an idea. It’s the person who actually does something with the idea, who…

  • Creative Truth: Work

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    Good work always prevails. There are many things that make a creative person successful but the one truth that is irrevocable is that we are judged by our work. We make things. Our creative output, art, music, dance, poetry, is the result of our lifetime of experiences, our craft and skills, influences of the culture…

  • Creative Truth 4: Place

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      I used to think this quote came from John Cage’s 10 Rules for Students and Teachers. However, I learned from Brain Pickings that they really came from Sister Corita Kent. I had this list of 10 Rules on the bulletin board above my desk for over five years and from it I learned some of…

  • Creative Truth 3

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        Creativity happens in situations and environments in which everyone can take risks, fail, experiment and try new things. Without trust, true creation is warped by hidden motives and agendas. If one can’t take risks, there is no possibility to construct something never seen before. Aggression is antithetical to creativity. Dominance squashes experimentation. I’ve…

  • Creative Truth 2

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    We all learn the hard way that everyone is replaceable. Everything is transitory. Be present wherever you are, whenever that is. Make the moment count. Fragment of sculpture by Rodin.

  • Creative Truths: Execution is Essential

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    Execution is essential was the mantra of one of my first professors at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Mary Fredlund. She ingrained in us that the execution of our ideas was critical to the success of the work. And she was completely right. Creative Truths is a series of posters visualizing creative truths I…