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Copland on What Creativity is Not

April 18, 2019 by mbonneville

aaron Copland

Filed Under: Creativity, Inspiration

Find your passion and purpose as an artist: 3 powerful videos

April 23, 2015 by mbonneville

Have you lost your passion and purpose as an artist? From time to time we get bogged down in the daily grind of life and lose site of the bigger picture of what we’re all about–which inevitably leads to loss of passion and energy. We wanted to share a few inspiring talks not only as a help to confirm your calling as an artist, but as a boost in your confidence and long-term creative vision as well.

Reclaim Your Passion and Purpose

Listen to Elle, as she tells her story of reclaiming her passion of art, changing her life work and is now living with focus and authenticity. Just recently CreativeMornings featured designer, painter, and writer Elle Luna. “Elle Luna describes her path from designer to artist, following her dreams and choosing ‘must’ over ‘should’.” … [Read More]

Filed Under: Creativity

New logo design: 3D Doodle Boxes

March 3, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Why do people draw 3d boxes when they doodle? Well, we don’t know, but we are taking the doodling of 3d boxes to the next level 🙂 Introducing 3D Doodle Boxes! We are in the final phases of our Unity3D project called 3D Doodle Boxes. You can, as the title implies, doodle with prefab 3d boxes in a super-easy-to-use user interface. It’s a cross between doodling 3D boxes on paper, and Minecraft :). After a final round of fit and finish bug fixing, we’ll be submitting 3D Doodle Boxes to the Mac App Store. In the mean time, have a look at the isometric logo and splash screen branding we just completed (click to enlarge): 3d-doodle-boxes-logo-v02

3D Doodle Boxes Features:

  • Ability to “draw” with boxes in full 3D
  • Super-simplified user interface that make it easy to casually pick and play with
  • Close to zero learning curve. It just works and there are no instructions.
  • Color and transparency palettes
  • Opaque or transparent boxes, and any degree in between!
  • Undo, redo, “lathe” mode, and more!
  • Fun!
If you are interested in having a little fun with an app like this, please subscribe to the RSS feed, or leave a comment on this thread to stay in touch.

Filed Under: Creativity, Drawing

Design Inspiration Series #1: Pressure as Inspiration

May 16, 2010 by Douglas Bonneville

I don’t find passion in graphic design, but I’m very interested in it, even after 20 years in the field. It’s always more interesting to do something purely artistic, where solving client problems isn’t a factor. I’m passionate about Fine Art, yet only very interested in Design, enough to keep doing it with a measure of delight after 20 years. It’s much more fun to write a song or sketch a painting concept than it is to analyze a client’s competitor and his branding. But as a designer, I must deliver work with a certain measure of inspiration or else I’ll cease to get work in this field. Right?

… [Read More]

Filed Under: Creativity, Graphic Design Books

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