Think Creative

Being an academic and a creative I tend to read and put into practice a lot that I look at. Recently I have been doing a good deal of research into 'inspiration'. Inspired as you could say, to motivate the students into getting their act together. It is a complex subject. Never is it easy as to say 'switch on' and get productive. So many variables fit into the complex motions of getting the brain to turn those gears. However, one of the great aids is the ability to see possible hurdles that could combat or challenge your creativity. There are too many to name here as possible blocks and remedies, but I will attempt to tell you some and hopefully this will aid in the process of getting your act together. The first and most easy to achieve is attitude. Again, that is easy to say, but having a late night, not getting your coffee in the morning, missing the bus, etc., can all contribute to making the daily attitude seep a little. However, one thing that you should and nee...

Another in the series of developing an understanding to the many types of blocks there are. Just as a quick reminder, we have already covered: Environmental Blocks, Cultural Blocks, Perpetual and Associative Blocks. This post will look at another aspect of the mental block structure; that of 'Intellectual Blocks'. What does this actual base its notions around? Well, there are many aspects to this form of mental blocking. Intelligence as described in the Oxford dictionary reads as such: intelligence |ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒ(ə)ns| noun 1 the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills Based on this, the measure of an intelligence is the amount of this such knowledge and to what amount it can be utilized in order to make head way in a given situation. Another way to look at the definition of intelligence is that of this basic concept. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. The more intelligent, or more knowledgeable one is, then the more likely you are of completely the task ...

So, moving further down the path of the depth process, we have ended up, through client choice, at a possible two versions. The surprising thing, that never fails to amaze me, is that the icon on the left is the first design I chose and developed, based on that feeling. The client was skeptical, and so wanted variation, but then when it came down to it, returned to this choice. In some aspects of trying to understand this, it could be said that this is possibly the eye that designers have in knowing a good design over a bad. Not saying that some of the other logo ideas were bad, but sometime something just stands out. And as the client wanted something a little closer t the original then this sort of hit the mark. So what the next step was, was to define a minor variation to draw the logo to a more Greek feel. I decided to incorporate the principle of gestalt in the design and minimizing the two letters of the school's name from the 'sigma' and 'kappa' that exists...