Work In Colour - Work. Think. Live. In Colour
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The Work In Colour blog is updated weekly, and suggestions for topics are welcome. In fact, all kinds of comments are welcome (except of course for the obvious nasties), so please post your thoughts or ideas here.
Thursday 17th September 2009
Have you ever run out of ideas? Or become caught up in your own assumptions (about materials, time, markets, budgets, or...?) Or felt like having a simple structure to work through your problem with - instead of all that chaos in your head? Enter SCAMPER! It's brilliant.
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips, scamper
Tuesday 25th August 2009
Today my blog post is about other people's blogs, some of the places I hang out for business and creative inspiration.
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Tags: innovation, thinking, creativity, blogs
Tuesday 4th August 2009
You know how it happens...you have an idea, or think of a way to solve a problem then after working on it for a while, you get stuck. It's not happening any more, the ideas run dry and you panic. Familiar?
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips, stuck
Tuesday 16th June 2009
A Scientific American Mind magazine issue on creativity a few years ago reported on fascinating research showing that creative people less likely to filter out peripheral information or irrelevant data from their minds than the rest of us.
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Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Assumptions are useful, often vital even. They provide a framework for our daily routines, reflect shared values and generally simplify life (imagine trying to get out of bed in the morning without assumptions about gravity, stable floors, hot coffee and warm slippers - or, in my case, Ugh boots).
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Tags: creative, thinking, tips, assumptions
Monday 25th May 2009
I have been a fan of Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping technique for at least 15 years. I use it most days for one thing or another. I plan workshops, map out articles to write, prepare my class notes - and daydream possibilities for fixing up the back yard.
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Tags: thinking, creativity, tips, mindmapping
