Topic: Creativity

The Creative Process, AKA The Bouncing Ball

By: Rich Wakefield

January 24, 2012

Close your eyes and imagine a ball bouncing behind you. Don’t turn around and look…

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Topic: Creativity

Tags: creative process, curiosity

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Bill Bernbach is dead. But his conversation continues.

By: Rich Wakefield

November 15, 2011

Hello.

Ideas come from conversations.

Sure, one person can sit alone and create ideas. But nowhere near as many ideas as two people engaged in a conversation. This was Bill Bernbach’s revolutionary model. By teaming up two people from different disciplines—writer and art director—he could get more, better ideas faster than a writer just slipping his idea under the art director’s door to get illustrated.

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Topic: Creativity

Tags: brainstorm, conversation, curiosity, ideas

Comments: Discussion