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Sustaining your creative edge can be a daily grind. Today's groove is tomorrow's rut. Here's an idea that will reconnect you with your creative centre.

Life Hack for Creatives The greatest improvisational comedians set an incredibly high creative bar. The spur-of-the-moment challenge of random and unlikely audience suggestions often lead to bizarre scenarios and inspired…

Bombay Beach: Art in the Post-Apocalypse

Bombay Beach: Art in the Post-Apocalypse On the eastern edge of the dying Salton Sea and an hour north of the Mexican border lies Bombay Beach, a trailer park of a town that died decades ago but who’s eclectic collection of resident…

Strategy is the key to success and all that jazz. It’s always good to know the competitor’s website that a client prefers, but I would never want to deliver anything with a likeness to it. A brand is a unique identity, a differentiator, the best it can be.

Strategy is the key to success and all that jazz Louis Armstrong was an amazing jazz musician, so why not make music that is as close to his as possible? I wouldn’t want to listen to someone doing cover songs of Louis Armstrong if I could just li…

Allow your brain the time to make unplanned associations.

Incubate Inspiration Same day creative deliverables are a thorn in my side. Creativity is not a linear process and the harder you work at a problem, the more you become attached to initial or incorrect solutions. I pro…