I start with the laugh and work backwards from there.
Bill Bailey
English actor, comedian, musician and singer. Known for creative ways of incorporating music into his comedy.
Creativity & Ideas
Design Thinking
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
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
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an “information architect” and only use Helvetica.
David Carson
An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.