New tracks to creativity

"Clearly the brain prefers to find new tracks than to keep going over the old ones. It's like the difference between being kissed in a new place and having someone press on a bruise..."

- from Graphic Design book "A Smile in the Mind" by Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart

What new tracks do you allow your brain to find?

What new creative stimuli do you provide yourself with to keep ideas flowing and prevent yourself from writing the same line of poetry or drawing the same figure every time you sit down to create?

By nourishing our creative senses and taking in new ideas, pictures, words, films, music and a variety of other experiences, we give our creativity a greater well to draw from, a richer seam to mine when it comes to creating our next work or project.

These influences can seep in and reveal their influence in such a subtle way that we barely notice sometimes. But they do influence and add to our increasing collection of experiences that have shaped the way we are today as creative people.

And anyway, wouldn't YOU have someone kiss you than press on your bruises..?