Contents
Introduction:
What This Book Is and Is Not About
What’s So Great About This Book?
A Brief Guide to the Creative Process
Variations on the Creative Process
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Creative Process
Believe in Your Creative Powers
Don’t Wait Around for “Eureka!”
Visit the “Zone” but Don’t Live There
Don’t Knock It Till You Try It
4 Mining Art and Design History
Two Ways to Mine: Forms and Concepts
5 Varying Degrees of Derivation
(Hypothetical) Frequently Asked Questions
6 How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Edit
Debunking the Myth of “Scratch”
Brainstorming: Expand and Contract
Nonstandard [Ab]Use of Standard Software
8 Maintaining a Personal Design Playground
Playground Interview: Dustin Hostetler of upsod.com
The Realm of Media Constraints
The Realm of Professional Ethics