Work placement skills at the ready? Or not yet?
Work placements are undoubtedly extremely valuable activities, as no amount of learning can beat learning by doing. Undertaking a work placement can eventually help a young person obtain a better […]
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The Graphic Design Project
The Graphic Design Project has been having time away from providing projects for young graphic designers to conduct research into graphic design for change - Design for Good.
Welcome to The Graphic Design Project
At The Graphic Design Project you can find graphic design projects for home-schoolers and portfolio builders all around the world. You’ll also find research, teaching and learning about Design for […]
Design: tales from a transformative experience
I wrote this two years ago. As I now publish this, it with sadness, that I see not much has changed. But it is with some hope that I hear […]
Albert Einstein: the creative brain
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous creative figure of science in recent times. Everybody knows his name and most people know his famous equation, E=MC2, which has crept into […]
5 Creativity-boosting New Year Resolutions (you don’t need any others!)
Forget the New Year Resolutions about the diet, keeping fit, being more confident, finally reading War and Peace and all the others – if you decide to take up five […]
Creative Training now available on Kindle and Nook
Creative Training: How to be More Creative is now available as an e-book on Amazon for Kindle and Barnes and Noble for Nook and as a PDF from Payhip.com […]
Travel by Book
Penguin books are running a summer holiday reading campaign called Travel by Book. Great idea. I took part in their quiz and was told I should be “walking the […]
Traits of creative people – is this you?
What distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. Brandon Boyd Can we really say that there […]
Behind you! The anti-noticing pantomime called Pokémon Go
Humans who notice real things are dangerous. The other day I had a conversation with a good friend and colleague on The Hashtag Noticing Project Facebook group. So, all […]
Sleep: what is it good for? Absolutely everything.
Above: Why books are always better than movies? by Massimo Barbieri, 2009, Sleep is the best meditation. – Dalai Lama It would seem likely that getting enough sleep would be good […]
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