Remember your speech class from high school or college? Remember the rules they gave you for a good speech. Now think of the famous speeches from history–”Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, The Gettysburg Address, “I Have a Dream” speech. According to those speech-class rules, Patrick Henry, Abe Lincoln, and MLK would have…
Guest Post by Nate McConnaughhay: I have hundreds of unfulfilled ideas in folders on my hard drive. Why didn’t they make it to paper? This is the battle: art versus function. An idea can be so brilliant and unique, but without “function” it gathers dust in a folder. I used to think that limited resources and…
Man: Honey, guess what I bought today! Wife: What? Man: A telephone! Wife: What’s that? Man: A curious device that lets you talk with your friends.
Yesterday I was approached by someone wanting to strike up a conversation. Normally I’m quite equipped to communicate with strangers, but this time something was wrong. It was clear from the dense smell in the air that he brought a foul stench with him to the conversation. That’s right. He cut some seriously aged cheese…
I used to be an extreme people pleaser–I had to know that people liked me. That condition held strong until my 10th grade year. My family moved to a new city–and me to a new school. This small school didn’t see many new faces. Within weeks I become the face of hatred to many of…
Creativity can be a lonely road. You don’t have to walk it alone, though. Often your biggest resource for overcoming creativity block will be those you surround yourself with. These will be the ones who will challenge your ruts and give you the resources to get out of them.
Creators create. A lot. It’s easy for creatives to over-create. But what about simplicity? Let these simplified packaging images convince you…
Creativity is fun. When it stops being fun, you lose your edge. Prevent that from happening with this fun tip. Tip: keep an arsenal of fun around you. These are simple distractions that can make the brainstorming process a bit more fun.
Want to be funny? Unless you’re Dane Cook’s mother I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t. I ran across a formula for humor a few years back which has continually proven itself true. Since then, I’ve seen everything that makes me chuckle, giggle, or Smomn abides by this formula. So let’s get straight to it.
I’m pretty sure my UPS delivery guy is heading to Vegas tomorrow. His truck was rumbling my body two hours earlier than usual today. Have you ever noticed on a normal week you’re working constantly until the last hour of your workweek? Then a week comes around where you’ll be missing a couple days of…