Think Creative

Sir Ken Robinson has done a follow up talk at TED based on his higher poignant speech of 2006, about the state of education regarding the negative approach to teaching creativity. His second speech, found  here , follows up by defining a new approach to teaching, in which a global revolution is needed. The speech itself is very moving and speaks volumes to the state at which education is today failing society. The current education system has two flaws ( well more in fact ) that consist of defining an education approach based on training the masses to be prepared for an industrial lifestyle, and secondly to white wash the approach to education. based on the previous induction methodology. The simple fact is that the current plan of attack regarding education was invented at the age of the industrial revolution, and hasn't had a great deal of modification since that early inception. This social state arose out of an evolutionary path that was proceeded by the agricultural method o...

*Note: Before I start I would like to point out that in no way am I trying to sell myself as being a great expert at design. I do however, enjoy what I do and pain myself to deliver quality work for my clients. Whom I think would agree on, on such matter. I do use the logo example above as it is the closest to showing what I would like to get across as an argument. Plus, if you can't blow your own trumpet once in a while in the economic crisis then who will. That all said, I am drawing to a close a development on a website, that has basically been going on for nearly two years now. The initial approach was based on the above logo. The lady in question, who has now become a good friend ( and should I say loyal fan ) asked me to do something about her logo. I took one look at it and nearly cried. The sadness grew when the client in question told me that the logo was designed by a graphic artist. She originally asked me to just do something about the pepper character in the centre. ...