A short video explaining how to make Monica Biagioli’s excellent, accidental zine design (full credits available here), plus a quick look at an example of how I have used it.
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Category: Creative
Book Pixies : Inspired By Art
Buy a book. Read a book. Pass the book on.
The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them? (Bob Dylan)
I was contacted a few days ago by Sam. Sam works in the library of a local school and has been following the free art project for a while now. Inspired by the project, and by Emma Watson’s Book Fairies, the school, Carshalton High School for Girls, has devised a community pay it forward project of its own. This week, Book Pixies came into being.
Students from the school have begun to distribute books in the local area. They visited a children’s hospital this week to start the project and give an interview to hospital radio. You can follow progress and find clues to where the books are being hidden on the school’s Learning Resource Centre instagram account. I wish the girls and the Book Pixies project every success. Who knows, maybe we’ll team up for a joint free art and book drop some time in the future?
I learned of the Book Pixies project while I was deep in preparation for an art exhibition. I was busy making and curating, surrounded by my work and wondering…’is it good enough?’ The timing of Sam’s approach, coincidental though it was, uplifted me, and helped motivate me to put together what became my most succesful art show to date.
I’m delighted to learn that the free art project has inspired others to act, and I am grateful for Sam taking the time to let me know. These little circles and loops are important so I’d like to leave you with something to think about. Who is inspiring you? How are they inspiring you? Have you told them?
Be curious. Start something. Keep going.
Developing and Sustaining A Culture of Creativity
This is the beginning of a curation of some recent talks, projects and workshops on developing and sustaining a culture of creativity in the workplace. This space will grow into a mixture of words, pictures, and practice, and the first thing I want to share is a series of annotated images, which I used to support short talks at Workplace Trends and Clerkenwell Design Week. There were four talks in all, each one slightly different, yet similar enough that I hope this one set of notes covers all the main points.
In summary the talks focused on:
- Scene setting : some evidence about why creativity at work is important
- Reluctance : some thoughts on why we don’t use creative practice more readily
- Getting started : A few ideas on how to bring business and the arts together
- Creative prompts : Simple steps to spark and sustain the creative process
- Age of Artists : An introduction to the evolving Age of Artists framework
- The Free Art Project : Be curious, start something, keep going
- Reading list
- Thoughts on managing a creative culture : Taken from the book Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Here’s a link to all the details. Sustaining a Culture of Creativity. I hope you find them useful and if you’ve any questions – feel free to leave a comment or drop me a line.
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