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5 Counter-intuitive rules for creative people
Here are some counter-intuitive rules that I’m following at the moment, and if you’re a ‘creative entrepreneur’ they might apply to you too:
1. Give good ideas away
Ideas are ten-a-penny. So you’re an ideas person? That’s great, but isn’t it frustrating having loads of wonderful ideas and then not seeing any of them happen? Give one [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged counter-intuitive, creativity, fail, play, risk, serendipity, win, work 68 Comments
Making animals with kids
I’m a big fan of making and doing with my two year old daughter and we’ve been encouraging her to scribble, paint, stick and make things whenever possible. I like joining in, and it’s very therapeutic to stop the hard work and do something simple like making some animals or sharing a drawing, even if [...]
Big City Plan public consultation – who’s in?
By Striatic on Flickr
It’s all been a bit quiet online about the Big City Plan for a while now. Other than Birmingham Central’s summaries, I haven’t seen much (maybe I’m looking in the wrong place?).
I was beginning to think I was never going to get any text content to get my teeth into to start [...]
Posted in Big City Plan, creativerepublic Also tagged Big City Plan, bigcityplan, birminghamuk, blogging, consultation, creative director, creativity, culture, philip singleton, plan, upyerbrum 17 Comments
A Creative Director for Birmingham?
Last night we ran the second in Creative Republic’s events around a creative response to the Big City Plan based around defining a “Fantasy brief for a Creative Director for Birmingham”.
Unfortunately, our planned speaker (the designer Michael Wolff) was ill and unable to attend. We were warned that might be the case the day before, [...]
Posted in Big City Plan, Blog, creativerepublic Also tagged Birmingham, birminghamuk, creativedirector, creativerepublic, cultural, director, upyerbrum 29 Comments
The Culture Question: What does Birmingham need?