If you are a self-publishing author and are starting out on a very small budget, a homemade, DIY book cover is a practical solution. However, the worst thing you can do is consider your cover design like a blank canvas and add all elements randomly without a deeper understanding of what role they are playing. […]
Category Archives: Creativity
Book Summary: Art Thinking – How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses by Amy Whitaker
Educator and writer Amy Whitaker combine her talents in art and business to explain how they serve one another. She proposes using a mind-set she calls “art thinking” to harness the joy and creative thought of making art in tandem with the structure and organization of the business. Each chapter addresses one aspect of the […]
Book Summary: Advocacy – Championing Ideas and Influencing Others by John A. Daly
You may not be a lawyer, politician, or inventor, but, at some point in your career, you’ve probably had to advocate – that is, convince others to buy into an idea. Communications consultant John A. Daly teaches the strategies successful advocates employ: the basics of presenting an idea, the importance of cultivating a broad network, […]
Book Summary: Mind Hacking – How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days
Prankish entrepreneur Sir John Hargrave believes the mind revolution is underway. Once befuddled by drugs and alcohol, Hargrave drew on his coding background to hack his addiction and transform his life. He shares his system in hopes of sparking an open-source revolution in objective mind training. He offers methods you can use to identify negative […]
Book Summary: The 4 Lenses of Innovation, A Power Tool for Creative Thinking by Rowan Gibson
Rowan Gibson, author of Innovation to the Core, provides a manual full of graphics, illustrations, and photographs, with numerous pages tinted different shades to suggest that you can change how you see even ordinary things. Gibson proposes a system of innovation that incorporates various models of the human brain. He provides a broadly applicable set […]
Cultivating Creativity at School and Work Builds Crucial Skills for Tackling Today’s Complex Challenges
Creativity and innovation expert Sir Ken Robinson – whose TED talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity?, has one of the largest audiences of all time – cautions that mass education systems designed to produce workers for the industrial age don’t prepare students to meet new world challenges. He advocates a full-scale transformation of education systems on […]