You have to be willing to step into the unknown if you want to be creative.

The will to do things that haven’t been done before.

When we’re creating things that have not been done before, uncertainty is inevitable.

The willingness to stay in the question long enough for the dots to connect.

My inability to make decisions is frustrating, but it also allows me to stay in the question longer. I’m not rushing to find a quick fix but rather twisting and turning problems. I often find the need to go back and research some more. To make sure that the path I’ve decided to take is the right one. It wasn’t until I got more comfortable in my role as a designer (I wish I could say that my imposter syndrome went away, but it still surfaces in every project) that I discovered the benefit of this. When it comes to solving problems with creative solutions, we must first spend time figuring out the right problem to solve. Then make sure that the solution we propose is helping more than hurting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-Forms

Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation is a theosophical book compiled by the members of the Theosophical Society A. Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. It was originally published in 1905 in London.[1][note 1] From the standpoint of Theosophy, it tells opinions regarding the visualization of thoughts, experiences, emotions and music. Drawings of the "thought-forms" were performed by John Varley Jr. (grandson of the painter John Varley), Prince, and McFarlane.

Google Arts & Culture’s new initiative Inside a Genius Mind offers an interactive experience of the codices in which Da Vinci made his sketches, diagrams, and notes.

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/TAEPZtXK2s139g

Every year I ask myself these 40 questions. I’ve shared this list with my family and closest friends, and always enjoy discussing answers as we reflect on th...

These questions are available in Markdown format

See also my 40 questions to ask yourself every decade.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this simple idea: The person who aligns themselves with the general principles of the world goes further and faster than the person who doesn't.

Here’s the trick to seeing things differently: put your energy into being right, not feeling right. While that sounds simple, it’s far from easy.

Feeling right, on the other hand, often requires you to believe you are an exception.

rather than tell yourself you made a mistake you chalk it up to the world not working as it should. It’s as if that little voice in your head says, “You’re not wrong; the world is.”

Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources. - GitHub - terkelg/awesome-creative-coding: Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources.

I read Moby-Dick in April 2020. For weeks afterward, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I started making maps and diagrams as a way to figure it out.

Designed by Peter Gorman, 2021
www.barelymaps.com
@barelymaps

A fun collection of free SVG generators for gradients, patterns, shapes, textures & cool backgrounds. Plus, some more color tools for web designers.

https://fffuel.co/hhhue/

This box of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany.

Produced 1958–1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents the final effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete glyph sets. Thanks to Michael Wörgötter, a set of these cards is now in our collection, and his high-res scans are online.

A complete reproduction and restoration of J. G. Heck and Spencer F. Baird’s collection of 13,000+ illustrations from 1851

In this blast from the past tutorial, I'll show you how to use a wet on dry watercolor technique to make a gorgeous cat illustration with a henna motif! 

A post about how I make mind maps.

July 8, 2023 - August 20, 2023

New Work by Lissa Banks, Deborah Friedman, Amy Parker and Tracey Maroni

The block that I purchased for this project was Ezy Carve Printing Block 30X30cm. I sketched and then carved a nude bust into the rubber block. After I had carved my design into the rubber block I…

A curated, easier to browse graphic design repository for the Internet Archives

Minimalist maps by Peter Gorman.

A few years ago, I took a one-year, solo bicycle trip around the U.S. and Canada. I rode over 11,000 miles in one big loop.

After the trip, I designed some graphic maps inspired by the places I visited, and opened an online shop called Barely Maps.

Visual frameworks are patterns to help you think creatively, reframe challenging situations, and imagine possible strategies and solutions.

There are three ways to search the library:

You can search by typing in the search bar at the top right of every page.
You can explore the tag cloud to see common themes and questions.
You can search visually. Think of a situation or challenge that’s on your mind right now and click on a visual below.

Squiggles, scribbles, shapes and... other stuff.
A library of over 70 custom-color elements ready to paste into your project.

In our Annex space “Exquisite Array: Human, Nature, Object” will run through July 28, 2019. Denise Driscoll’s Gaia series are a gorgeous tangle of intertwining shapes with iridescent highlights and a luminous colored edge that causes the surrounding light to glow! These spectacular little gems are a steal at $300.

The Boston-based painter’s large, color-rich paintings begin with what he hears, not with what he sees. He says, “Sight and sound run parallel in our perception, and these works do not intend to confound the two. Rather, the interest is for the viewer to switch back and forth across subjectivity, allowing sound its visual memory. As a word becomes a sound’s visual placeholder, so these paintings become their portrait.”

Norfolk began painting as a teenager and earned a BFA from the College of William and Mary, and received his MFA from Boston University.