Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the result of creativity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the celebrated Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, on “the 10 antithetical traits often present in creative people that are integrated with each other in a dialectical tension.”
Find more in the Explore archive on creativity.
(via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
Gebrauchsgraphik (1968), an example of PSYCHEDELIA, idea # 83 of 100 ideas that changed graphic design
Science teaches the value of rational thought as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that the lessons are all true.
Feynman was a genius. On so many levels.
(via explore-blog)
Maria Grønlund: A World In A Vector
This. Is. Too. Good.
Two cells + 2x23 chromosomes = You.
Lovely.
Source: behance.net
1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design helps us to understand a product
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is durable
8. Good design is consequent to the last detail
9. Good design is concerned with the environment
10. Good design is as little design as possible
Whether or not you’re celebrating Easter this weekend, you can always bring some color into your life with these ingenious PANTONE eggs. For a coffeetable complement, grab PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color.
Nice
Source: explore-blog
Whether or not you’re celebrating Easter this weekend, you can always bring some color into your life with these ingenious PANTONE eggs. For a coffeetable complement, grab PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color.
Nice.
Source: explore-blog
The spread of America’s obesity epidemic in just 14 years, in an excellent article on the true cost of unwalkable streets from The Atlantic.
Source: explore-blog
Everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.
