Tag: Creativity


One Mans Discarded Trinkets Become Art—in a Dumpster – Design – GOOD

When Brooklyn-based collage artist Mac Premo was preparing to move from his longtime studio to a much smaller one, he knew he had to get rid of hundreds of items from his past. But instead of simply tossing everything in the trash, he decided to catalog each item and the memories associated with them.

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How I Learned to Be Creative – Lifestyle – GOOD

I wasn’t always the type to design my own envelopes, sew my own skirts, and hold an annual craft day for friends. Until a few years ago, I equated creativity with Charles and Ray Eames or Martha Stewart, thinking they surely had been born with some sort of mutated gene equivalent to the ones that give someone red hair or small feet. I wanted that gene, but I never imagined I could have it.

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Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback? – Design – GOOD

Around the world, only a few hundred people make a living as fulltime typeface designers. Two of them happen to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, population 167,000, where they’ve embarked on an ambitious project to distill the city’s artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font called Chatype.

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