Creative Confidence

A place to add inspiring bits of creative confidence from around the world. Learn more at creativeconfidence.com.

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Neil Stevenson on Twitter: Today we’re making Lionel Richie clay heads while blindfolded.

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Personal Time — IDEO designer Ian Schon is building watches in his home shop. Read the story on IDEO Labs.

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100 fresh blogs and websites for creative professionals to follow in 2015

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David Kelley on How to Unlock Creative Confidence | KQED

Growing up in Ohio, David Kelley was the type of kid who would take apart car engines and washing machines. Today, the founder of the design firm IDEO and Stanford's design school focuses on creative ways to fix problems, from upgrading the Apple mouse to solving traffic jams. He joins us to talk about the importance of cross-collaboration, his book 'Creative Confidence' and how each person can unlock his or her own creativity.

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Devin Peek on Instagram: The best kind of workdays at IDEO leave your fingers covered in paint.

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Josh Bennett, an artist and designer from New Orleans, left us a intricate and beautiful mural in our Boston studio as his two week Fortnight stint came to a close. 

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A really cool site which takes an odd view of the world around us. It gets us to take note of the everyday things we look past.

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Gnarly in Pink. Op-Docs. New York Times. This short film celebrates the "Pink Helmet Posse," three 6-year-old girls who share an unusual passion: skateboarding.

Produced by: Kristelle Laroche and Ben Mullinkosson

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Tokyo City Symphony. 3D projection mapping art on a miniature model of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale. 

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ballonchile.com

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Working with the public we taught them to dance a couple of steps of tango and help us create a composite partner

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Via Thomas Riddle @imagineeringED 

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Creativity is beautiful & empowering.

"What it is is beautiful"

Lego ad from 1981

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A big wall of New Year's resolutions at IDEO-SF. Kindling creativity is alway a common theme, that and eating less candy. What are your 2014 resolutions?

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Inspiring story of Zina Lahr, a true creator. 

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Welcome to Dinovember

Every year, my wife and I devote the month of November to convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life.

https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/6f4cb1886d41

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Design Thinking in Schools

Design thinking is a powerful way for today’s students to learn, and it’s being implemented by educators all around the world. This site is a directory of schools and programs that use design thinking in the curriculum for K12 students.

http://designthinkinginschools.org/