This series of portraits explores the thought processes, working habits, and decision-making principles applied by brilliant thinkers who profoundly impacted the world with their discoveries and the way they challenged the status quo.
Creativity was once reserved for the gods. Now it seems to be the domain of the powerful. How did we get here?
Creativity may feel like the beginning of everything, but in the beginning there was no creativity. In 1950, when Guilford delivered his address, creativity as a field of research was virtually nonexistent. In fact, the word “creativity” itself was a recent invention, having only been inducted into standard English dictionaries after World War II.
The Back Story behind that Pink Floyd Back Catalogue Poster
Yes, it's The Classic 1997 Pink Floyd “Back” Catalogue (Sorry, not sorry) This classic picture commissioned by EMI in 1997, to cleverly advertise the release of the “back” catalogue of Pink Floyd was taken at a private indoor pool in Putney (London Borough of Wandsworth) by photographer Tony May in 1996. The unknown nude models had the cover art of six Pink Floyd albums painted onto their backs by artist Phyllis Cohen. The original concept and design of painting the Pink Floyd album covers on t
Ideas on Design publishes articles, interviews, and resources on navigating the fields of design, branding, and creativity. Click to read Ideas on Design, by David Mendes, a Substack publication.
Miles Davis and the Recording of a Jazz Masterpiece
Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time. Here's what it was like inside the studio with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans on the day they laid down one of the record's iconic tracks.
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Things Become Other Things (TBOT) is a book chronicling a decade of walking central Japan's Kii Peninsula and its Kumano Kodō paths. It's a book about farmers and fishermen and and kissa owners and adopted inn proprietors, about okonomiyaki ladies and foul-mouthed little kids.
Kissa by Kissa is a book about walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of pizza toast (pizza toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.
Musings, ramblings, and principles that I’ve shared with my team and randomly on Twitter. Reminding yourself of the principles that ground you is simply a good practice. Here are mine.
The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.
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Human personality is truly fascinating, and I hope that you enjoy this course on the Big 5 personality traits. The Big 5 Model has been thoroughly studied...
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Timeshielding: How to Do the Things you Actually Want to Do
Timeshielding allows you to protect blocks of time in your calendar for what matters to you, with no specific task list. This could be for research, reading, creative brainstorming, or even just doing nothing. Because timeshielding feels more fun than timeboxing, you are less likely to ignore the blocks in your calendar.
Timeshielding: How to Do the Things you Actually Want to Do