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On creativity – Royal Society of Art animation

LB — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:46:04 +0000

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John Cleese on creativity

LB — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:48 +0000

Sleep on it.

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This is the best costume for today

LB — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:27:22 +0000

“This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don’t like women in skirts, and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt – I think – then you have the pants under the skirt, and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants, underneath the skirt, and you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape.

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How rooms and architecture affect mood and creativity

LB — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:38:55 +0000

Jonas Salk claimed that it wasn’t until he left his basement lab in the States and went to clear his head in a monastery in Assisi that he was able to solve the puzzle of polio.

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Selgas Cano architecture office, by Iwan Baan

LB — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:12:13 +0000

Selgas Cano is a Spanish architecture firm, and this long glass tube in a little wooded ravine is the Madrid office they’ve built for themselves. The shutters over the clear roof are retractable (see the photo of the pulleys at bottom).

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Army blanket pillows, swords into ploughshares.

LB — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:52:22 +0000

This post is a personal addendum to our earlier post about a discussion amongst readers of another design blog about whether one designer had copied or “borrowed” another designer’s idea.

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