m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen » creativity http://marciahansen.com/blog since 11/23/2003 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Happy New Year! http://marciahansen.com/blog/happy-new-year-2/ http://marciahansen.com/blog/happy-new-year-2/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:35:41 +0000 Marcia Hansen http://mwrites.com/blog/?p=733 I created a 2008 calendar that I’m sending out to friends and family who have e-mail, and I thought I’d post it here too in case you’d like to have a copy.

Each month has a picture of a place that is on my “Must See” list. There is also space at the side or bottom of each calendar page to jot notes or important dates. It’s too bad there are not more months in the year, because I ran out of months before I reached the end of my list. I didn’t even include any domestic locations. Oh well, that will be more for next year.

I realized by creating this calendar, it helps me…

  1. visualize all year and work towards visiting these places one day.
  2. keep in touch with friends and family
  3. use a little bit of creativity.

However, you get to use a little creativity too. There is some printing and assembly required. Choose the paper, rubber bands, and chopstick color of your choice! Also, please let me know your favorite places or if we have favorites in common (hey, maybe we could think about a group trip and do an international blogger meet-up).

I chose all of the pictures from Flickr, and they each have a Creative Commons license (feel free to share, but check the individual license for each picture before you modify or use commercially). See the photo credits on the first page for links.

I hope you all have a wonderful 2008!

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From there, I clicked on a random commenter and found: Jason Santa Maria’s site and his post On the Subject of Design. Check out the books he recommends on design. This post would be of interest to visual rhetoricians.

One of the books Jason recommends is: Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Graphic Problem Solving by Judith Wilde, Richard Wilde. Also, he mentions: The Elements of Color by Johannes Itten.

Finally, one of the other books he recommended that is a little bit differrent than the others: A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech. After checking it out on Amazon, I’m thinking about ordering the deck of cards based on the book: Creative Whack Pack for some out-of-the-box thinking.

Good stuff. :)

]]> http://marciahansen.com/blog/tonights-link-fest/feed/ 0 Gapingvoid http://marciahansen.com/blog/gapingvoid/ http://marciahansen.com/blog/gapingvoid/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:45:00 +0000 Marcia Hansen http://mwrites.com/blog/?p=13 So reading my bloglines, I hear that Collin has new blog cards. Cool cards, but then I wonder, who the heck is gapingvoid?

I click over to the site and browse around. Not only do I find out who Hugh is, but I find this great list of lessons on how to be creative.

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