Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process

When clients are screaming, deadlines are approaching, and you're stuck in your own process, this is the place to get unstuck and get the creative juices flowing again! By focusing on the strategies, tools, habits, and paradigms behind the creative process, veteran author Curt Cloninger shows you how you can inject a big dose of creativity into just about every step of any design project. Filled with beautiful full-color examples and interviews with artists and designers, Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process provides a plethora of strategies, tools, templates, and practices that you can apply to your own work. As you make your way through the book's four major sections, you'll be given a grab bag of tricks to get your creative juices flowing. From using the creativity-enhancing Oblique Strategies cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt to creating blitz mock-ups, drawing inspiration from the past, maintaining a personal design playground, using standard software in experimental ways, accessing nonstandard applications to create new effects, and more, this gorgeously illustrated guide gives you the goods to hot-wire your creative process!

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

Peachpit Press

Editions

1

Pages

264

ISBN

9780321350244

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