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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
#noticing: or ways to boost your creativity with social media
Above: #noticing the Observer Building, Hastings, UK If you want a golden rule … [the] true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details […]
Beguiled by data
In the press release for Somerset House’s current Big Bang Data exhibition Jonathan Harris wonders whether governments and the others who control our lives have got so hot about […]
Object Obsessions: Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things
“Warning: Artificially increasing the subjective value of objects will most likely lead to unintended consequences.” Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn Over the last couple of months I have been […]
World Post Day – postcards from your inspiration
Yesterday, October 9th, was World Post Day and Curious Events Day – a combination not to be missed. So on a trip to London’s Somerset House, my colleague, Tim Bones, and I asked our University of Kent Graphic Design students to not only review the fantastic World Illustration Awards, but […]
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