Just as the sound of a tree crashing in the forest is unheard if nobody is there to hear it, so creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Collective Thinking
Creativity & Ideas
It is better to be good than to be original.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.
Creativity & Ideas
Living Spaces
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
Zaha Hadid
A British Iraqi architect from Baghdad. The "Queen of the curve", who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity
Creativity
Creativity & Ideas
Rules can be broken – but never ignored.
David Jury
A writer, award-winning graphic designer and the head of the MA course of Art at the Colchester Institute.