Content creators are motivated by passion but when the issue of making money gets involved, it leads to their inevitable burnout.

There are many studies about how we process tonal music and figurative painting, but philosophers are just beginning to understand how our brains react to more abstract work.

The more creative work you produce, the better your chances of making a masterpiece.

Are you creative? Did you consider yourself a creative kid? I didn’t. I never pursued what I was passionate about, I just wasn’t someone who made things. I aspired to perhaps be a photographer, writer, designer, musician, etc, but never put in the work.

People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?

Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates with ...

Creativity is very messy. According to one prominent theory, the creative process involves four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. This is all well in good in theory.

Research suggests that peak creativity happens when we’re pleasantly absent-minded. Or, as psychologist Allen Braun writes, “We think what we see is a relaxation of ‘executive functions’ to allow more natural de-focused attention and uncensored processes to occur that might be the hallmark of creativity.”

If you think a few glowing stars on your ceiling are impressive, just get a look at these insane bedroom murals from Hungarian-born, Vienna-based artist Bogi Fa

The literary great Marcel Proust wore ear-stoppers because he was unable to filter out irrelevant noise—and lined his bedroom with cork to attenuate sound.

A new study is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process. As for the brain’s higher-level executive-control centers? Not so much.

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Draw a stickman and then guide him through a fantastic world where you have complete creative freedom.

A German crew has transformed the village of Palmitas into a vibrant rainbow, connecting the community of more than 200 homes through an array of colorful hues.

These are 45 amazing creativity resources that can stir up your creative instinct. If you need inspiration and motivation to take your product or business to the next-level, you will find these resources, ideas, projects, designs, videos, predictions and innovations useful.

The idea that particular individuals drive history has long been discredited. Yet it persists in the tech industry, obscuring some of the fundamental factors in innovation.

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Trawl is an exploration game, but not in the traditional sense of the word. Like Woolf, it would seem creators Nate Gallardo and Danny Gallagher have cast themselves to the bottom of the ocean, brokeb tradition, and returned with a new genre for their art form. Unlike other exploration games, you do not walk around a pre-rendered and beautiful world or solve puzzles—in fact the closest thing to a puzzle in Trawl is the bewildering enigma of creation.

Now there's a hobby. Very impressive. :-)

New research out of Northwestern University suggests that—for some people—a bombardment of sound can actually be a good thing.

Why we don’t like what we struggle to categorize. By Tom Vanderbilt.

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life.”

In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion. The impact of German Romantics on the artist. By Michael Lind.

After a crisis of confidence, the Swedish pop musician – celebrated for dispensing nuggets of advice to fans – has learned some new life lessons of his own.

Bill McKibben reviews “The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter” by David Sax.

A new study reports highly creative people appear to have more connections between their brain hemispheres.

When your fingers are on the keyboard, your focus is the writing. But when you hit publish? A new hope takes wings. Please let them like this… If we truly were writing for ourselves, why would we publish? We’d save it for ourselves, hoarding words in dog eared notebooks or hidden on hard drives. Writer’s eyes and reader’s eyes aren’t the same.

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Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore. By Dean Keith Simonton.

Daniel Martínez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez

We traced the substance from cave paintings to glitter bombs, what makes glitter annoying is also what makes it powerful.

Blank on Blank

From Thaddeus Wolfe to Amber Cowan, these artists are taking the medium in radical new directions.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” For a long time I thought I understood this quote. It’s so straightforward, there seems little room for misinterpretation. And yet, there is. See, for many years, I thought Lao Tzu was saying that every journey begins with that first, single physical step. We put a foot out in front of us, lean forward slight, and then whoosh! Away we go.

at a time when technology advancements are changing the meaning of originality, experts within the field of design try to redefine what makes an authentic.