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Imagine Author Is Featured at Continuum Event

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I’m currently reading the book, Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It’s trigging a great deal of thoughtful contemplation as I consider how creativity works and where it exists. So when I received this invitation from the design firm, Continuum, I wanted to share it. Continuum’s creative development for Procter & Gamble’s Swiffer is the opening scenario [...]

Acknowledge the Box

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We talk about creativity and innovation in terms of thinking outside the box. Thinking outside the box still needs to remain within the boundaries of the problem we are solving. In other words, thinking outside the box does not disrespect the box. Look at the box from a different angle, but keep looking at it. Be [...]

Green Scheduling: 6 Tips for Sustaining Your Creative Time

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Design your time. Time is wasted when we do the wrong thing at the wrong time. It’s easier to keep your time boundaries and your well-being intact if you plan ahead.

The Need For Selflessness

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If we approach a design solution as an opportunity for self-expression, we’ll miss the point and risk not solving the problem.

Drawing The Line Between Art and Design

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Where an artist can begin with a blank canvas and pursue a serendipitous route to an end result, a designer begins with a set of criterion and remains within set boundaries from concept through completion.

Creativity and Change

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Creative thinking requires us to cease from thinking as we always have. This is neither automatic nor easy because we automatically default to doing that which requires the least amount of effort.

Sketchy Memories

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“Sequoia, In Part” – a pencil sketch of my dog, found in a sketchbook. I am currently in the concept stages of a logo development project. I always begin in my sketchbook, doodling forms and symbols, playing with shapes, sizes and letter forms until things start to connect. I go a long way with my [...]

Creative Differences: Illustration and Design

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By straddling two “worlds” in my design practice, I often think about one of them while engaging in the other. For instance, while working on a design project, I’ll be musing over the illustration in progress over there on my drafting table. And when I’m in my illustration mode, I’ll be considering the next step [...]

Peace In The Midst

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Wishing you peace in the midst of it all. ©2008 Alvalyn Lundgren. All rights reserved. My holiday greeting this year was created in response to the upheaval of many of our trusted systems, both domestically and internationally. We live in perilous, uncertain times and have much to be worried and anxious about. We don’t know [...]

Truth and Creativity

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The Atrium at the Hammer Museum, West Los Angeles, CA. ©2008. Alvalyn Lundgren. I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately that center around truth and creativity, so I thought I’d post this quote by one of my favorite authors and ask people to comment: Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about [...]

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