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Have got some idle time? Need to reboot your imagination? Spark your creativity? Be inspired? Here are two favorite TED talks:

Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

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Recommend: Things I have learned in my life so far.

What Comes To Mind? (associative flashcards) is a deck of twenty-seven 4 x 6" double sided cards. The front of every card features an image removed from its original context. Overlaid over each image is a letter of the alphabet, printed in upper and lower case, referencing early education learning tools.

This form instructs viewers to make connections between the image and the letter printed over it.

An original idea by Hum Creative.

Creativy x2 – because the business of design requires that our creative processes grow and seek nutrition and enrichment. Here are two articles to feed your mind.

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Creativity? Pursuit of change

One of my favorite quotes comes from a book I highly recommend: It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be, by Paul Arden. "All creative people need something to rebel against, it’s what gives their (and clients) lives excitement," and, "Successful solutions are often made by people rebelling against bad briefs."

Here are some pointers to keep your creativity alive.

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Originally published in Design in Flight magazine – launch issue. / Republished by Icograda as a featured article.

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Ideas! A closer look at creativity!

So how do we in fact become proficient idea generators? First, ideas = creativity. The root of creativity stems from the word creation which is to create from nothing. Nice theoretical assumption. Now what is the practical side?

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Originally published in Creative Behavior magazine

Long week-end ahead for us and intend on practicing what’s written on the poster and take time to read the 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: why most ideas get shot down by Michael Iva

Downloaded over 75K times and translated into 16 languages.

My next few days program?

Chill. Reboot. Create.

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addendum: You can buy the Holstee Manifesto Poster here.

33 Ways to stay creative by Frederik Frede.

How to think up digital ideas by Ben Keenan who is a senior copywriter / digital specialist at Clemenger BBDO.

The internet is a relevance engine! So any advertising idea must be relevant. And since people don’t like ads. You should try to do solutions not ads. Think like an inventor and storyteller.

Good tips and creative exercises.

Download the .pdf

Since repurposing Netdiver Mag and opening Netdiver Mag – I have been quite busy working in kinda of stealth mode to tweak-tweak-tweak how to present new content, production of this FANTA (code name) project which intends to afford a robust and playful outlet for creatives around the world to express and promote themselves. No due date yet.

Curious? Read more in-depth in this just released interview I did for FUEL magazine (for iPad). No iPad? Download as a .pdf which sports one of my illustration on their launch issue cover :))

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Netdiver Mag is all about sharing what catches my eyes both as inspiration and creative lessons that probe and push me to excel in whatever I enterprise. I need the visual stimuli as the air I breath.

Through the years, I realise that I have been very discrete about other passions in my life – apart from everything design – but this is about to change. Like.. now.

Five years ago I took the despotic rule of the CTRL+Z universe out of the equation and started painting large abstract canvas. Why? To play with pretty colors for sure, and keep learning about chromatics. But also to learn about new problem-solving and decision-making processes. By painting would you say?

Well once you’ve applied a spot of paint and don’t like the result – can’t delete it right? So this forces me to think and ultimately, find a way to recuperate the ‘mess’ and make it part of the emerging visual. Sometimes the sum of my painting is just a string of corrections. Sometimes it is pure insight.

Also, since my little bro passed 1.5 year ago, he was a musician and experienced with the music production industry – he admonished JF and I to stop ‘researching’ and start ‘doing’.

We had a band 20 years ago and worked 7 years on our projects. When came the www opportunity – we jumped in and for the best of the past 15 years – it was our main focus. JF became a FED (front-end developer) and I a publisher. We had and still have much passion for what it means to be connected 24/7 to the world via technology. I am in awe every day.

We don’t care so much for technology as we care for content distribution and leveraging the creative industry (all disciplines confounded) through disintermediation and circulation of works like never before in the history of our creative culture.

Throughout the years we composed music / songwriting (and piled up a good amount of sketches), invested in new instruments and in the digital music studio parnophelia required to do a decent demo. All the while JF was (and still is) re-learning the new era way of music recording and production. Michel serving as a catalyst, kind of signified it was time for us to go back to it.

We are currently working on two albums. First one is an ‘in memoriam’ album with lots of instrumental tracks to be freely distributed to people going through the agony of losing someone.

The second is a compilation of new and revisited songs, that dip into what we think is now ‘our’ sound and style.

If you read this far, thank you. You visiting is the reason why I am pursuing everything I’m doing. I am no longer a closet publisher, artist nor songwriter.

Expect that the mix of ‘content’ on Netdiver Mag to include from now on the daily mix of creative inspirational projects plus bits and pieces of what I am doing, such as takes (snapshots) of on-going canvas, design experimentations and music.

You ok with that?

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