Think Creative

This post is was inspired by several things that occurred over the past few weeks. Some were observed, some experienced and even some were reflections on things past. However, they all seem to drive toward a main focal key point; that of design control. One of the things I notice in the world and reflect to my students when I teach them, is the simple fact that every single thing in the world that is manufactured ( and I could say naturally made ) has been designed. Regardless of how bad or good that design is, someone has had to sit down and conjure a way to make an idea look good based on its needs and requirements for function. Looking at the process of education, and its seeming lack of concern to the arts or the fundamental aspects of teaching children to draw, there is a great deal of scope in the argument toward design control. It has always been a strong curriculum bias towards mathematics and the sciences. I can even remember as a child that the art class to most was the ...

Sitting in a bar one evening, after the college exhibition, discussing with a colleague and friend the idea of setting up a chess club at college as an additional activity. This was triggered from the basis of the new course at the college in games design, leads me to believe that the initial reaction would inspire interest on the notion that it is revolved around computer based game design, and not the more compelling notion, for example, of redesigning the concept of chess. Could that game be made any better. A little discussion brought about the memory of the 3d chess board seen in the Star Trek films, but on the whole there has not been any improvement on that classic game structure for over the past five hundred years. It does draw into consideration, in this debate, what occurs in the minds of designs when such things come about. The motivation for chess was in fact a method to strategies war for generals in combat situations. Understanding the tactics and values of certain div...