America’s Most Scenic Junkyard
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Archive for: October 2010
John Gaule Quote
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”
Why ‘Thank You’ Is More Than Just Good Manners
Is expressing thanks a powerful motivator or just a social nicety? According to positive psychologists, saying ‘thank you’ is no longer just good manners, it is also beneficial to the self. To take the best known examples, studies have suggested t…
Framing the Gateway Arch
The MVVA team chose to forgo large dramatic interventions, and instead proposed a number of small but creative modifications and additions to the grounds surrounding the arch. Responding to what they saw as the three defining elements of the site …
Milwaukee Art Museum Opens New Exhibition on European Design Since 1985
James Dyson, DC11 vacuum cleaner, 2003. Photo courtesy Dyson Ltd. MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum’s newest feature exhibition, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, opens this Saturday, October 9. It is the first encompassi…
Get Creative: 7 More Psychological Techniques
While it certainly isn’t the first time that love has been identified as a creative stimulus, psychologists have suggested a particular cognitive mechanism. Love cues us with thoughts of the long-term, hence our minds zoom out and we reason more a…
Boost Creativity: 7 Unusual Psychological Techniques
Called ‘Janusian thinking’ after the many-faced Roman god Janus, it involves conceiving of multiple simultaneous opposites. Integrative ideas emerge from juxtapositions, which are usually not obvious in the final product, theory or artwork. Physic…
Ferrari Dino 206 Competizione (Pininfarina) from 1967
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