Managing a Creative Environment
We often overlook the fact that the environment which work is produced in often influences the style, inspiration and over all finish to the piece.
Working in surroundings which inspire you is an excellent way of creating a snow ball effect on the amount of work and content of work being produced. Perhaps by collecting images or objects which you find interesting or just aesthetically pleasing and arranging them in your work space is a good way of interacting with your surroundings when working, like the work spaces below.
It’s almost as if you indulge yourself in what interests you and inspires you, your creativity will flow continuously.
On the other hand, many designers also prefer to work in a space which is sparse and holds very little personal interest and is free of mess or clutter. Perhaps this is for the creative practitioner who likes to work from fresh ideas, who works more spontaneously.
Developing ideational Fluency
Everybody develops ideas in different ways because we all approach problems or tasks in the way we find easiest.
Often when being given a brief or task, we’re flooded with ideas of which we try our best to get down quickly. People translate these ideas on to paper in different ways. Some people draw sketches quickly and messily,
others write down abbreviations or notes of which most of the time when looking back on, only they would understand
When creating ideas it is important not to concentrate too much on the aesthetic quality, this is often what stifles ideational fluency because we become consumed with how well the idea is sketched or put down, this isn’t important!
Also reflecting on ideas as you go along helps to produce a bigger idea, finding connectives between ideas can help produce a strong outcome, not only this but it also helps you to see what doesn’t work as well.
Producing more and more ideas can only help and often the initial idea one isn’t the right one.
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