Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.

Architecture
Design & Arts

Creativity & Ideas
Living Spaces

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Surprise me!

Messages don’t prompt the brain to action. But as ideas, they do!

Steve Adams

Popular conference speaker and writer who worked in TV, radio and magazines and as Tearfund’s Head of Global Brand and Communication.

Content Marketing
Copywriting
Creativity & Ideas
Persuasion

A fundamental part of creative process is making mistakes together. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

Collective Thinking
Creativity & Ideas
Making Mistakes

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain

Entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer, and the father of American literature and the greatest humorist the United States has produced.

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.

Creativity & Ideas
Design Principles

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