Saturday, February 13, 2010

Overcoming a creative block

(From Erik Spiekermann, German typographer)


There are 6 strategies for this situation:


1. Avoid
Do something else, wash the car, back-up your data, do errands…
2. Think
Sit back and think about the issue, just let your mind go…
3. Research
Look up stuff, go through your old projects, but avoid Google — it takes too long to find anything useful…
4. Collect
We all have lots of stuff; there must be something in there that is waiting to be used…
5. Sketch
Drawing is great, even if you have no talent. Just visualising the simplest things makes them come alive…
6. Deconstruct
Take the problem apart, look at the parts and then put them back together…



Full post: ISO50 [http://blog.iso50.com/2010/02/10/overcoming-creative-block/]

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

[Photos] Jobless, and Living in a Bunk

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/01/business/CAPSULESLIDE_index.html

From The New York Times:
Atsushi Nakanishi, 40, is out of work in Japan, where unemployment has hit 5.2 percent. Exporters have laid off workers en masse over the last year as the global economic crisis has cut into demand, pushing many of the newly unemployed from their company-sponsored housing or leaving them unable to make rent.