• Art Happening – Belfast School of Art

    Art Happening – Belfast School of Art

    Great thing about working in Ulster University’s Belfast School of art is there is aways something interesting going on.

  • Around Belfast

    Around Belfast

  • Inspiration -Picasso

  • No More Managers. Everyone Leads

    An engineering researcher was clairvoyant when he said in 1994 that subordinates often make the best leaders: Often with small groups, it is not the manager who emerges as the leader. In many cases it is a subordinate member with specific talents who leads the group in a certain direction. Leaders must let vision, strategies,…

  • RSA Animate – The Divided Brain

  • TEDxSoCal – Nick Pugh – The Future of Painting

  • Teamwork Ground Rules

    Good advice from Kristof Kovacs There’s only three things: ASK: If a task is not clear, or more information is needed, please ask as soon as possible. Asking is always ok. Doing the wrong thing (or doing nothing) because you didn’t ask is not ok. DEBRIEF: It’s not done until you reported it done. This…

  • Beautiful video of Rick Genest

  • The Creative Brief

    Don’t let the question predict, limit and/or hide the answer. It is very important when creating a brief for a creative project not to be overly prescriptive as it will limit the possible creative outcomes. Trust the team and the creative process to deliver unexpected results that fill your requirements. When engaging in a new…

  • 29 Ways To Stay Creative

  • Produce

    This part of the work plan is dependent on both the brief and the scope of the programme. After Note: Production can be explained in isolation but is executed with Planning. I have updated the previous post “Plan” to reflect some of this.     This post is incomplete and needs so much more detail…

  • Evaluate

    Decision Time—Convergent Thinking This point marks a sudden change of gears, where phase one and two come to a sudden and marked end. With the leadership of the Facilitators the group evaluates the most popular concepts against the brief’s criteria until a top concept is found. In a situation where there are many teams working…

  • Refine

    The concept phase is an explosion of ideas shooting off in almost random directions. In the refinement phase of the creative process we look for links between concepts, gradually building upon what has been developed and referring to both the brief and reflecting on the inspirations gathered in phase one. The refinement process draws to…

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