Category: Creative Process
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The Blank Page Standoff
Every creative project begins with a lie we tell ourselves: This one will be easy.Then we open a fresh artboard or a notebook… and nothing happens. That blank page is more than empty. It’s a dare. It challenges you to fill it with something good, something clever, something that won’t make future-you cringe. And that…
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Brainstorm Like Nobody’s Watching
Here’s a secret about good ideas: most of them start as bad ones in disguise.I’ve sat through enough brainstorms to know that brilliance doesn’t always walk in the door. It usually stumbles in wearing a joke hat and making a weird noise. The best sessions aren’t rigid or heavily structured. They’re playful, loose, and slightly…
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Burnout Isn’t Boring—It’s Data
Image by Michelle Urra from WePresent: By artists, with artists Let’s talk about creative burnout. The kind that feels like staring at a screen while your brain quietly backs out of the room. Creative work isn’t just about making things. It’s about making sense of things. That takes mental and emotional energy. And when that…
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Design Is Kinky
(It’s Never a Straight Line) Design needs boundaries. It does its best work when there’s something to push against. Whether it’s the tension between function and beauty, message and medium, or simplicity and personality. Constraints aren’t roadblocks; they’re what give design its shape. They create the framework that ideas grow inside of. Total freedom? That’s…