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The Edinburgh Fringe is the world’s largest performing arts festival, but this year’s event has sadly been canceled due to COVID-19. Fortunately, art junkies can still get their fix of the Fringe at a virtual alternative curated by an AI...Tuesday, August 4, 2020 from 99U
The creative business duo behind Of a Kind answer reader questions—starting with a topic near and dear to them.Monday, August 3, 2020 from creativiteach
In my last post, I began thinking about The Henry Ford’s Modeli for innovation, and particularly its Habits of an Innovator, as they express social and emotional characteristics associated with innovation. Thinking about the first one,...Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 99U
Red Antler co-founder Emily Heyward’s new book draws from her years of experience in the marketing industry and dives deep into making a brand that people love and trust.Tuesday, July 28, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
If you’ve ever wondered what you’d look like in animated form, you can now find out. Developers Tejas Mahajan and Niraj Pandkar have created an AI tool that can turn your photos and videos into cartoons. Cartoonizer is based on a...Monday, July 27, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
As we consider the social emotional strengths that will serve students well in building creativity—and in learning—one good place to start is with The Henry Ford Museum’s Model i, a model of design thinking for innovation. The Henry Ford...Wednesday, July 22, 2020 from 99U
Strategies from creatives on how to get unstuck and move forward in your work.Monday, July 20, 2020 from creativiteach
Want to make a comic book? Create a character? Play a scribble game? Do you really really need some summer fun when activities are closed? Author/illustrator Jarrett Lerner has your back. Lerner, author of books like EngiNerds (and...Thursday, July 16, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Nikolay Ironov had been working as a graphic designer for more than a year before he revealed his secret. As an employee of Art. Lebedev Studio — Russia’s largest design company — Ironov had already worked on more than 20 commercial...Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
My Little Pony has a curiously broad set of fans, from little girls to adult male “bronies” and, err, Nazis. But since the cartoon series Friendship Is Magic ended in 2019, there’s been no new adventures of the Mane Six gang for fans to...Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 99U
With the right approach, your downtime can reap benefits for your career and optimize your work life.Monday, July 13, 2020 from creativiteach
In recent weeks, social media has exploded with a debate about schools reopening. And—like pretty much everything else related to schools—everyone seems to have an opinion, regardless of whether they’ve been near a public school in...Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from 99U
Rob Walker invites us to look at the world around us with fresh eyes in his book of exercises, challenges, and observations.Monday, July 6, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Have you ever wanted to pick the brains of Sir Isaac Newton, Mary Shelley, or Benjamin Franklin? Well now you can (kinda), thanks to a new experiment by magician and novelist Andrew Mayne. The project — called AI|Writer —...Monday, July 6, 2020 from creativiteach
When I was young, one of my favorite books was called All About Archeology. Before I was old enough to read it myself, I begged my father to read it to me (over and over and over), especially the story of the discovery of King Tut’s...Sunday, June 28, 2020 from creativiteach
So many of us have had to adapt our jobs to new conditions because of COVID19, but you wouldn’t think writers would be much affected. But for award-winning author Jason Reynolds, some important things have changed. Reynolds is the...Wednesday, June 24, 2020 from 99U
Noah Kalina, the photographer behind cult-loved books, a deeply respected art photography practice, and a viral video project that has amassed over 44 million views, opens up on his early days as an artist and his unlikely new medium.Monday, June 22, 2020 from creativiteach
What a time we are living through. All around me, educators are wrapping up a crazy online school year mid-pandemic, with still very little knowledge of what is coming in the fall. And across the world, there is increasing awareness of...Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
Our speakers at the 2020 99U Conference explored the theme of The Creative Self with insight, wit, and compassion. Here's a look at the keynotes, master classes, and workshops from our first virtual 99U Conference, filmed at a production...Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
Exploring the ways we can show and receive love in our relationships with clients, employees, and colleagues, and build lasting, reciprocal links rooted in acts of care.Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
An exercise that shows us how to build time into our schedule for those secret aspirations, and how to create with soul to capture genuine energy in our work.Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
How we can solve the fundamental problems of inequity and fair representation in the design industry by prioritizing equal outcomes over equal access.Sunday, June 14, 2020 from creativiteach
This is a time of reflection in the United States—at least I hope it is. Sometimes it feels as if the universe is trying to catch our attention. First, a pandemic upended our daily routines. Then, in my home state, a flood destroyed...Friday, June 12, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Even the best photographers get the occasional blurry snaps. But the mediocre ones like me get them all the damn time. Thankfully, a new AI tool can make even crappy snappers look like Mario Testino. Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration....Wednesday, June 10, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Fiction helps us imagine the future of AI and the impact that it will have on our lives. But it also perpetuates stereotypes for generations to come. From Greek mythology to contemporary sci-fi, robots are constantly anthropomorphized....Monday, June 8, 2020 from creativiteach
What makes science, science? In Carl Sagan’s essay, “Wonder and Skepticism,” he presented the core of science as two seemingly opposing points of view. On one hand, science requires openness and curiosity about the world. But openness to...Saturday, June 6, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Did you know we have an online conference about product design coming up? SPRINT will cover how designers and product owners can stay ahead of the curve in these unprecedented times. Logo redesigns are a lot like a tightrope act—on a...Sunday, May 31, 2020 from creativiteach
When I was a teen, my uncle Jack Moran wrote a song called “Skip a Rope.” It was recorded by Henson Cargill and was nominated by the Country Music Association for Song of the Year. I was very proud, not because I was a country music fan...Monday, May 25, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
The year 2020 will be known for many things, but one of them certainly will be innovation. All of us have had to flex in ways we never expected. Individuals, businesses, and organizations of all sorts have had to find new ways of...Wednesday, May 13, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
This year, the world’s most prestigious music award show — The Eurovision Song Contest — was set to be more spectacular than ever, as an AI competition was running alongside the traditional extravaganza. Then the coronavirus arrived....Tuesday, May 12, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
I thought I was finished with blogging. Creativiteach had a good run–seven years at the point I paused—and as I looked toward phased retirement, it seemed a good time to wind things down. Last spring, I thought I’d take the...Tuesday, May 12, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Moog today introduced its new Subharmonicon, a semi-modular analog synthesizer featuring six-tone subharmonic chords and organic polyrhythms. That’s a fancy way of saying it’s a musical instrument that lets you create incredible...Thursday, April 9, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
A new neuroimaging study points to an answer of what may have driven the evolutionary development of creativity.Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
A new brain-imaging study has studied the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisation to show that creativity is, in fact, driven primarily by the right hemisphere in musicians who are comparatively inexperienced at...Thursday, March 5, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Want to boost creativity? Caffeine may not be the way to go according to a news study.Monday, February 24, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Technology has shifted the way that professors teach students in higher education. For example, by uploading recorded lectures online, students can reference a digital copy of the topics discussed in class. However, lecture-based...Wednesday, February 12, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Economists and business leaders agree that innovation is a major force behind economic growth, but many disagree on what is the best way to encourage workers to produce the 'think-outside-of-the-box' ideas that create newer and better...Wednesday, December 11, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Country music songwriters must perform a careful dance when they work with famous singers who may be less talented at writing songs but bring the needed star power to attract fans -- and, importantly, to get the song recorded in the...Tuesday, November 12, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have conducted a study to see if virtual reality can be used as an expressive tool in art therapy.Wednesday, September 4, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
It's increasingly common for managers to instruct employees to 'be creative' during brainstorming sessions. But according to a new article, being creative in the workplace is potentially fraught with peril because creativity itself is...Monday, July 8, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Video games that foster creative freedom can increase creativity under certain conditions, according to new research. The experimental study compared the effect of playing Minecraft, with or without instruction, to watching a TV show or...Tuesday, July 2, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
A typical child plays many roles, such as friend, neighbor, son or daughter. Simply reminding children of that fact can lead to better problem-solving and more flexible thinking, finds new research. Better problem-solving was just one...Tuesday, May 28, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
What kind of potato chip would you create, and what would you name it, if you wanted to sell the product exclusively to pregnant women?Thursday, May 23, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
How can employees' working time be organized so as to enable them to perform in the best possible way when completing both creative and routine tasks? Economists investigated this question and made a surprising discovery. Which working...Wednesday, May 8, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Humans use imagination a lot, whether it be thinking about what's for dinner later tonight or trying to imagine what someone else on the other side of the world may be experiencing after reading the news. As situations become farther...Friday, April 26, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
If you believe that great scientists are most creative when they're young, you are missing part of the story. A new study of winners of the Nobel Prize in economics finds that there are two different life cycles of creativity, one that...Thursday, April 4, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Though most firms today embrace a culture of criticism, when supervisors and peers dispense negative feedback it can actually stunt the creative process, according to a new study.Tuesday, March 26, 2019 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
It is hard to do experiments in schools, particularly large scale experiments. A true experiment requires randomly assigning participants to an experimental group (which gets some kind of treatment) and a control group (which...Friday, March 22, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
There is an effective formula for unlocking employees' creative potential, according to new research. Employers should incentivize workers to produce an abundance of ideas -- even mediocre ones -- and then have them step away from the...Monday, March 18, 2019 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
Sometimes even the most interesting creative project can start to feel like a burden. Experiments don’t work and have to be redesigned. Poetry needs editing. Interviews have to be transcribed and paintings need work. Those moments, when...