… cant imagine how but creatives in history were probably mostly poor people …
https://smarthistory.org/look-at-this/
… put some complementary world music too …
Some of us are born with creative minds, but others aren’t. It is possible for us to learn to be creativity, and I think that takes practice. We take inspiration from what we see around us to help us get started. Once we get in some practice, creativity should become more natural to us.
I think this link would be very useful for someone trying to learn creativity. It gives a lot of useful and helpful tips and suggestions. If you search the internet, you can find a lot of useful articles on how to learn creativity. Here are some suggestions.
Be open to new experiences.
Surround yourself with colour.
Take time to go for walks.
Don’t be afraid to stand out.
Practice thinking ideas up with the help of the creative process.
Start with simple designs and work gradually up to more difficult projects.
Last, practice, practice and practice more.
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Well, that’s reassuring that taking ideas from references is not the bad thing, thank you for the suggestion regarding portfolio websites might be great for assets for collecting references, many thanks for this.
Honestly, I never know that everyone has creativity, I thought that some folks get lucky to have it. Thanks for the sharing the process of how I can unlock by imagination or creativity by observing different designs and thinking about them in the deep state. It might take time, but eventually if I keep it up consistently I just might be able to unlocked my creativity. Thanks for the in depth explanation.
I am sorry but lots of things I don’t understand from your reply, I am going to assume that you are suggesting me that I should think freely and don’t worry about other things. Also, I should surround my self with different creative folks. Moreover, I should read and research how in the past people overcomes the problem which they are facing.
Thanks for making the points in the bullets as it makes reading experience better. There are lots of great suggestion have been pointed out by you but the most important is:
Practice Practice and Practice.
Creativity thrives on three things: simplicity, opposite things, and unrelated things.
I am retired now, but for 50 years, I was a creative professional. When I was working, I would often pull out magazines, dictionary‘s, and books. With any project I have in mind, I would just pick up a magazine and start flipping pages. Then I would look at images of opposite, unrelated or simple things that just happened to tickle my mind.
Sometimes, I would just open a book or a dictionary, close my eyes, turn to a random page and just put my finger down, then open my eyes to see what word my finger landed on. I would write that word down then I would close my eyes and repeat. It’s amazing what can happen when you combine two or three unrelated things that have nothing to do with the project you were working on . For example:
I needed to create an ad for a Steakhouse that would go into a publication that would be sent to all of the organizations that were from out of state and coming to my city for conferences. I was using the magazine technique that day. As I was flipping through the pages, I saw an ad for Saab Aircraft engines. And the following thoughts raced through my mind in a flash!
—Saab is a French company.
—Local people would say they speak with a funny accent.
—The French speaking people would say my local people speak with a funny accent.
—Food has an accent.
—Kentucky Steaks have an accent!
—BANG! So the ad’s headline will read: “Great Food With A Kentucky Accent.”
It’s that simple. Try these techniques and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can become “creative!”
It doesn’t change the relevance of what you said, but Saab is a Swedish company.
Far more important than that is your technique of jogging one’s brain out of thinking inside a silo. I’ll need to try it sometime when I get frustrated about a solution that doesn’t come as easily as it should. I like the slogan you came up with. A Kentucky accent might not be noticeable to someone from Kentucky, but for an out-of-stater, it’s part of the unique experience of visiting there.
Fooling around.
Meditation.
hm Surround Yourself with experience of artists through the ages, its simple projecting technique for chasing inspiration when symbols had have different semiotic meaning or styles different interpretations …
hm hm hm I’ve first tried to compare design inspiration to the music composition … then tried to link tasting of the full (particular historic) vibe by the typical music from its time so You can visualise somehow more that historical inspiration eg. while listening to funk [1] strolling around retrofuturistic and scifi designs of '70s and '80s (graphic or applied art designs etc.) or if go deeper down in history link traditional world music to art from middle ages or antiquity also eg. You can shift between various styles from some ethnical realm etc. etc. alike combinations that will give You wider visualisation around the imagination process for chasing inspiration from history … also You can mix up the vibes epochs styles or randomise picking of inspiration pieces from different vibes like mixing used colours and forms from different times etc. etc. combinations so would reinvent the creativity wheal that was rolling throughout history!
- hm, creativity comes from combing knowledge and experience, so Learn Debate Invent … at least find way to navigate around informations ~ for what could come handy wiki database visualization tools (which tho now are in some hickup [2])
Also it could be inspirational to experiment with different art tools and techniques and project that what message should express pass resonate, also thrown as simple communicating of the message or covert hidden complex cypher of some emotion event notion etc. practically Play with whatever You have at hand and give to it natural process of casual existence (here I go complex) imagination personification stylization metaphor etc. of nature and symbols, explaining symbols forms scenes ideas events as interconnected biological processes that surpass our social and dive in our collective unconscious noospheric world …
… long story short eg. the idea that Pen is Pen could be stretched in million combinations solely by attributes eg. it could be ink carrier which ink came from Amazon and its plastic from Japan plus as such if its used to sketch low tech knowhow suddenly ecological minimalism would hit the concept paper eg. for more organic steampunk scenes … even more long story short eg. Play by relations to related and unrelated ideas concepts projects norms tools [3] make things constructively live and their meaning appealing like Twitter Blue Bird with three legs … fun adds to the movement of expression and emotions … are birds farthing [4]
- so Learn Play Debate Invent and/or vice versa!, foremost step out from the boredom zone of tilting in front of soc.nets or tv overindulgence, change Your info habits or media tools so would not hook for good on some and like that becoming moulded by triviality instead creativity!
Go taste some new food and start preparing it in own way so would brake eventual cycle of habits, yeah eventual needed defocusing from repetitive dullness it could start with the taste in Your mouth so would electrify the senses and find emotions in some visualization of Your imagination … yeah its not same if drink Tequila with Taco and/or eat Taco with Coke, dont be afraid to experiment too eg. drinking Tequila while listening Tako [5] at the end of the bottle if not else else will find escape from Your entrapped imagination, tho I’ll not advise getting hooked on such escape altho there are some interesting ropes for those that got addicted to muse up their inspiration from spirits [6] especially problematic like this would be that You’ll open Your Nous for demonic hijack and like that drop in shadow mode creativity what would be wrong if design by itself should resonate beauty … btw in same time Dont Take Me Serious … if need just to spark instant creativity copy paste of some shape and hit the Blender … plugins can come handy too!, tho try even for that to make storyboard among expectations and possibilities of idea translation [7] instead just randomness from some software mixer … hm I am currently inspired by footnoting links in eforums when while research some topic bump on extra amount of interlinked dimensions and like that getting some extra ideas what should do next or what could come out from it!
I’ve forgot to mention when exploring this kind of creativity chase try not to end up in the spiritual realm and hooking in the end eg. on logomancy [1] dont risk going in such pagan mode when mixing history too, simply abstract interpretations of reality could get extra wrong once tied to symbols whether somewhere mentioned earlier or empowered currently with meaning!, practically like that You will open Your Nous for demonic vibe what would not be wise if You are after true beauty!
I’ve found that the harder I think about it, the less creative I get. Everyone seems to have a different means of coming up with creative ideas. Mine usually pop up randomly somewhere around 2am or often when I’m overtired. Which is pretty much all the time these days. (sigh)
Thanks B. You’re right. I guess it’s because the ad showed the engines on a French military aircraft. I only glanced at the photo and that was my inspiration. Perhaps I should have read the body copy? (LOL)
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I find this interesting personally, ever since starting on a particular psychiatric medicine I found my ability to visualize felt neutered. I’m not sure why, but I think it takes an understanding of the self and the world around us to be able to create images in your mind. Seeking out references can help.
well said ! jao Vitor
Haziq! it’s Abdul Rehman, hope you are fine, First thing is to be confident and don’t feel down anything about yourself , because the hard truth about creating something new is rely on this formula : COPY –TRANSFORM– then COMBINE , and after time you’ll get able to create something very easily.
best wishes for you!
in case to any help my behance username: Abdul Rehman
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I don’t know even where to begin with that! That is definitely not the way to go about arriving at effective problem-solving solutions. If it were that easy, every other person would be out there thinking they are designers without the first clue about what they are doing … oh, hang on; they are!
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Yes! There is no doubt that basically we are problem solvers, so first of all we need to understand the problem properly then move towards solution and for solution we should study deeply about design, design principles. A strong grasp on understanding etc. and most importantly a concept of effective visual communication. Then we will go to a proper solution, like what we want to design and how…
After all its about DAILY PRACTICE!
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this is so true when styles and trends are in question … in perspective borrowing advice ideas from Your collogues also can be helpful, something like check and balance to own current approach around creativity …
in my experience most of the time sharing is most rewarding thing that can provoke strangely positive causality, just like opened hearth on eforums, so once someone unselfishly helps other in same time is starting to gain will for diving in its own usually conformist idea pool and finding there maybe some forgotten glitches of possible solutions to the already choked by unhealthy competition market, when eg. instead to push for short sell strategy starts to contemplate things around long epic monumental echoes of branding communication, UPS comes to mind 
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Thank You, well that’s reassuring.