In reading the new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer, I was struck by a story about an incurable brain disease. And, like someone was trying to send me a message, the next day I listened to a Radiolab podcast with Jonah Lehrer as a guest talking about the same disease. I [...] Click to continue reading »
Plugging Into Your Creative Side
One of the long time myths about creativity is this idea that creativity = art. Not so. Here’s another, only right-brained people are creative. Also, not so. Lefties and Righties are equally creative the only difference is the expression of that creativity. That means that creativity is not all about art, many times it is [...] Click to continue reading »
Using images to celebrate birthdays
Would you like to have a quick and easy way to make birthday greetings for Facebook and email? I’ve been using our ImageCenter to do just that. The process I show in the video uses Techsmith’s Jing to capture the image and quickly add text to it. I use Jing all the time for a [...] Click to continue reading »
Nurturing creativity
Early phases of becoming an artist There have been a few people in my life who have played a significant role in nurturing my creativity. My high school art teacher, Miss Keary, is one of the most important to me. I haven’t seen her in over thirty years, but I do hear about her since [...] Click to continue reading »
Wrestling with Creativity
I was recently asked to develop a non-credit certificate program on creativity and innovation in business. It’s very early in the process, there aren’t a lot of limitations yet. I started by looking around online for discussions about creativity and asking questions of my network. I’m looking for input from as many people as possible. [...] Click to continue reading »
Marketing 101
I’ve been reading some interesting material by Robert Middleton on how to market a service company. Even though its about service companies, the concepts apply to product companies. VisualsSpeak is actually both a service and a product company. As I write this my partner, Christine, is facilitating a 2 day retreat for an executive management [...] Click to continue reading »
Where do you learn?
As I’ve been thinking about the significant influences over the years that have contributed to VisualsSpeak, I’m noticing a pattern. Many of the people who have been influential have been teachers of some kind. Most of the interactions have occurred around some type of learning environment. However, it hasn’t been the content of the actual [...] Click to continue reading »