Roots of Creativity

I was just tucking in to some Sunday soup today (it's the same soup for every other day but on a Sunday instead) and spotted this new post for Jacob Cass at Just Creative Design.

image taken from: Brian Yerkes

"I want to get your feedback on Just Creative Design and as an added incentive I am offering a prize to one lucky random winner!" Jacob Cass.

He's a nice chap Jacob and so we thought we'd help out (it was the possibility of free book goodliness that finally swung it for us though ;) ). Anyway, here was our feedback, including our category rankings and suggestions for improvement:

(1) Creativity (with a name like Kooji Creative, it had to be our No 1 really didn’t it?)

(2) Inspiration (It’s one of our main reasons for browsing the web)

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Tablefy Water Lantern

(3) Tutorials/ Knowledge Transfer (Lifelong Learning is a priority for us)

(4) The Online Design Community (Networking with other creatives is incredibly powerful)

(5) Giveaways & Competitions (Let’s be honest if we hadn’t spotted this post with a freebie book we wouldn’t have been as inclined to post feedback :D )

(6) Anything Programming related (Don’t get me wrong, without programming our stuff wouldn’t work, but we’re more interested in the design/ the front-end - CSS, XHTML, SEO, - all these things are important, but we prefer to focus on the design side)

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Labyrinth


FEEDBACK - This is a wonderful resource Jacob, and it’s where we began our search for online design info (we found you through your free ebook). There are links that branch out across a network of designers, blogs and social media sites - it’s fantastic.

It’d be great if you could add more visuals and interactivity to your website (flash is good for this and it’s less confining). People tend to skim read and images are read faster than words. Video content would be a great addition - Maybe something showing how you work?

One last point - Digital art is incredible and a superb result of today’s creative technologies - but it’s important to remember that it’s still just one of many tools available to us, and that we must always acknowledge how it all began: with a pencil, with paint and a canvas or a stick on a cave wall. Maybe a post about the Roots of Creativity would be beneficial for all?

Thanks for JCD :D

Katherine and Johnny

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So that was our feedback for JCD - which ended up being a being a full blown epic novel instead of just a children's fairytale (a bit like Lord The Rings eh? Okay, maybe not :P)

We'd really like your opinions on this. Do you think it's important to acknowledge your creative roots? Do you care about where creativity all began? Is the computer your only tool as a creative or do you like using traditional mediums aswell?