To “animate” means to breathe life into things. In these 5 exercises we make stones come alive.
(more…)Why do we like images?
(more…)How do I even begin my drawing? The secret to jumpstart our creativity is fun.
But how does that work?
(more…)Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How?
(more…)Are we cut off from the outer world, trapped alone in our personal experience?
(more…)If we want to understand what a picture is, then we must look at the difference between perception and imagination.
(more…)Designers share a problem with politicians and business consultants: nobody knows what they are actually doing. I can shed some light on what designers do.
(more…)Why do some images support a text better than others? Let’s start with a quick example:
(more…)Let’s not sugarcoat this: diseases, hunger, and our inevitable death have been a strain on our relationship with nature. We needed some distance.
(more…)Until recently everyday objects were shaped by their technology. The design of a telephone was basically a hull around a machine. The task of the designers was to make technology look pretty.
(more…)Many creatives know this phenomenon: They start a new project on a promising topic with excitement, but when they can’t come up with an original idea instantly — they lose interest. They come to the conclusion that they picked the wrong topic. So they restart with a new topic, only to find out that the grass isn’t any greener on that side of the fence either.
Where do these commitment issues come from?
(more…)This article is a quick summary of a basic design course. It addresses a simple question: How do you design interactive systems that are easy to understand? Well, it all comes down to two things: structure and process.
(more…)The digital revolution was a gold rush for curious minds. Nobody knew what digital media actually was, only that it was about to impact our lives profoundly. It was unknown territory waiting to be filled with new artforms, designs and ways to understand the world.
(more…)Pick a small topic for your creative project!
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in your creative project is to pick a topic which is too big.
As an artist and designer I keep making one mistake time and again. So if this article sounds like me giving advice to other creatives… it is actually an attempt to keep myself from making this mistake yet again.
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