Many people believe that creativity is something you either have or you don’t, and if you are amongst the happy few, you’ll use your creativity to create difficult art the general public won’t understand but your creative counterparts will love. But; creativity is of vital importance to every act you’ll ever do. Art or no [...]

In this talk from 2003 at the TED conference, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion. He looks at design that makes people happy, and the relationship between happiness and creativity.

After Ji Lee’s latest advertisement idea got gunned down by a client and the fear of creativity he decided it was time for action. Spending 3000 dollars of his own money he printed 24.000 stickers that would connect Buddha to Hollywood, allowed King Kong an a dragon to have a conversation in the New York [...]

This video explains the Creative Commons movement, and using work licensed under Creative Commons licenses. How the world get more creative, our culture will be richer, if we will just allow the new technology to set creative work free. Creative Commons aims to make these works more accessible, usable and sharable so that creativity itself [...]

Inspirational video telling us just what creativity is capable of doing. The video shown at the Night of the Unboring (2005), a benefit for the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.”

Short film about the birth, short life and demise of a creative idea. From a Canadian advertising awards show. (Via Het Mediaplein)