What is creativity?

My interpretation on creativity

Simple question hey! LOL

What is Creativity?

I think creativity is about being free with ideas. Thinking outside the box and not blocking yourself by rules and formulas. I find that some graphic designers are very clinical and sometimes rigid. But if you combine a fine artists with a Graphic designer or a fine artist turned graphic designer their journey is completely different - thus being more loose and open to suggestion. Fine artists tend to be more expressive is what I mean.

I could sit and write pages upon pages on this subject, due to experience in studios, working with certain people and studing art, graphics design, animation and film.

Sorry if I have waffled on

Jason

My pennyworth on creativity...

... For what it's worth.

I think it's mostly about thinking or doing things or solving problems a little differently. 'Creatives' have no ownership of creativity, you could pluck a chicken in a creative way if you thought about it. Alexander the Great won wars with creative strategy. I've heard account handlers, housewives and bankers excusing themselves for not being able to come up with ideas, as they weren't 'creative'. Some of us creative types might have have some lateral ways of thinking but the 4 odd years at art school and the umpteenth on the job have refined that talent a heck of a lot.

That's not to say some people don't have raw talent and I dare say most creative people have also been labeled as eccentric, oddballs loners, peculiar or just plain stark raving bonkers. And I definititely have been called a few of those! So its a mixture of innate ability and your reaction to your environment. Nature AND nurture.

Right, enough farty waffling, hope that helps 🙂 and doesn't sound bad in the morning, I'm just off to pluck a chicken ...

For me creativity is - an innovative thought process that enables the thinker to neatly, resourcefully and efficiently solve a problem or gain an advantage.

Mickey's version:

Creativity is plagiarism that doesn't get spotted :rollin