It is very true that ideas are not everywhere and that they require effort and talent and consistency to get by and of good quality. At the same time, I think they come our way all the time. One of the…

At the end of the day, there’s only one thing that will make your dreams come to life: make them yourself! I believe there’s no limit to what we can do and we should never be the ones not fighting to…

One thing about ideas is that you often lose track of them, of what they became and where they ended up being. This is the main reason why I became obsessed with collecting, archiving and detailing my work and my…

Towards the end of the year and, for me, the end of this blog, I tend to become more romantic. That kind of romance that makes you think about the past and think about what you are losing moving ahead….

Towards the end, we tend to start looking back and draft conclusions. What worked, what didn’t, what could be better… And it’s ok, it’s natural and part of the process, but we shouldn’t get stuck in there. Creativity is not…

Taking the time to do nothing is just as important as investing all your energies in actually doing something.

As usual, the best learnings come from nature. I learned from nature many things, about myself and my body, about people and energy behaviors, about time. Nature teaches us time is the most important thing, and by doing this blog…

This is more or less the point of this blog and the conclusion I’m getting to: whatever you want, see, find, notice…can become the subject of your next idea. It doesn’t really matter what it is or what you make…

Creativity is not so much about what you create as much as about what you decide not to keep. By eliminating options you make choices that will drive you to the right place, the choices will bring you to not…

It comes like this, unexpected, unintended, unusual. I look at it and it talks to me. It talks to you. It’s a window to a new vision and a new day, to the next chapter. It’s a piece of reality…

It’s funny how a detail shows up and sometimes it’s not even there, you just have to go and get it. Creativity is about noticing those details, going there, see them, capturing them. Creativity is about a moment, an instant….

Humility is not about being anything you are not as much as just being everything you are. And the first rule in creativity is to be able to bring that humility into everything we do. If we do that we…

If you practice and train you get the result you want, that’s for sure. And they might make you feel like a lion for a day, or maybe more! The secret, then, is to not give up and to actually…

Ideas should be light as air, like if they were flying free without the weight of judgment or premeditation. Ideas fly around us, around our heads, bodies and minds and are there about to reach us. Most of the times,…

When you feel as if you can’t make it, look up, go up, breathe up. Make it count, make it fun, make it mean. Don’t struggle, don’t give up, just look up. Up. With the body, the energy, the mindset,…

Sometimes it helps to map out our thoughts and where we think we are. A simple sign of where we are in time, in life, in meaning. It helps to understand where we want to go and what we want to…

Remember. Imagine. Dream. Make. Switch. Move. Stop. Start. Connect. Listen. Ask. Give. Touch. Look. Rest.

The doctor would say: Take a break. And so you do.

Best advice ever for creatives: don’t ask for permission, just go and do it!

Creating is like fighting a battle every day. With yourself, your willingness to make stuff, your daily energy. Although is not always the perfect day to create, we should never stop fighting to find new ideas, inspirations, insights. That’s the core…

An idea is that delicate and small space in between what you notice and what you don’t. While walking in the streets, sitting at a table or eating something with a friend there’s always something that’s trying to talk to…

It is a great question to ask ourselves over and over, each time we start a journey or we take a decision, A question to ask ourselves every time we find ourselves moving. A question that will give a present…

Creating is somehow to fish into our memories and transform what comes out of it. And so the invitation is to never forget to remember about your past, especially when you were a kid and you were in love with…

It comes that moment for a pause, for reflection, to look inside yourself. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel? After two days without my voice and in need for it, I don’t wonder where…

Creativity is most of the times a new way to look at old things. It is about being able to see how something might look different and fun and interesting. It is about taking what exists and transforming it, not…

In what you do. In what you dream. In what you promise. In what you touch. In what you learn. In what you see. Be in it with all that you got.

We should always be able to see behind and notice what’s there and not immediately visible, without stopping at a first level. Ideas, insights and inspiration almost never reside in the first thing we see or feel and going a…

It’s important to keep track of what we do and this is one of the main reasons I keep this blog alive. Remembering, going back to moments, live again, be close to the past… It all helps to put things…

Happiness is real only when shared. And so are ideas… In my experience, doing things together makes things better and more fun. Even if it doesn’t happen at a physical level, just by considering somebody esle’s point of view while…

There’s planning and instinct. There are acts of reflection and acts of courage. There are a present and the future. Creating doesn’t always have to do with having clear and full visibility of everything and we should come to peace with it. Not looking,…

It doesn’t matter where you are going or why what I know is that is always a long way to get there. There isn’t a shortcut when creating, we always have to take into account every part of the journey….

To create we have to be able to see inside ourselves and to reflect on what we see. The results of those reflections are often the guide to creativity itself and they drive our creative movement. To be able to…

That’s what life, and creativity is about. You go up and down, down and up, and all we have to do is to resist, find our ways, identify a decent level of standard quality that will keep us high in…

Here is an idea for a day where you don’t have (time or energy for) ideas. Go back to an image that gives you some sort of meaning. Look at it. Ask yourself what it is telling you. Write a…

Sometimes emptiness is the only thing you need to understand it all.

Even when you think you aren’t creating anything, you actually are. That’s what happens to me: I’m constantly looking, observing, adapting, changing, creating. My eyes move and capture things and my mind translates them into concepts and my hands into…

As much as it’s true that sometimes it’s just important to do it, to make it happen, details count. What details show, more than anything else, is care: how much effort, energy and love we put in what we are doing. That…

There’s nothing to do or say about it, we are in this together. Creativity isn’t a solo game, you are never alone when creating, thinking, looking for solutions. All around you, someone is doing something, something is happening, somehow you can…

Sometimes it’s a matter of taking the time you need, slow it down, focus on what’s relevant. Creating is like living, just like staying around keeping the purpose. Living is about making choices and taking risks. Taking the time to…

We could ask ourselves that question every single day: what is beauty and what is not? I find that often beauty is what we make of it, how we transform something into something else, how we are able to see…

So many times my mind goes in many places but the one where I currently am or should be. I just can’t stop it. Or that’s what I thought until now. To create, to write, to think…we have to be…

This one, in my opinion, should always be the first rule: keep it simple. There’s no reason to make it too big or complicated if you can keep it simple. Whatever you do that’s not just simple gets harder to…

Why would you hold yourself back from a bite? Creativity is about tasting new and old flavours, to explore what you don’t know and to appreciate what you know you like already. We might think to hold back from trying…

In how many ways can we look at things and in how many ways can we remember them? I figured I’ve been passing through a similar or identical landscape so many times that it should just always look the same…

There’s nothing else to do than celebrate the time we have available to do, create, think, change. All our life is designed to create something, to achieve some sort of result, to leave something behind. I want to wake up every…

This is one of the hardest things for me: to disconnect, to forget, to free up space for emptiness, to let go completely. Since it is one of the hardest, I try hard to do something about it, which sounds…

Do something you would never do. Think something you would never think. Try something you would never try. Write something you would never write. Sometimes all we have to do is doing. Some other time all we have to do is try…

There are times when we just pretend we know what we are doing, we can’t really understand what it is or what it should be and we are not able to make a real plan or give sense to it. Those…

When tired. Fishing from the past. Keep it short. Blurry view. Yet, a view.

There are things we have under our eyes every single day but we just don’t see. Our task as creators is some time to just see things for what they are, or see things for what they are not. Other…

There isn’t a job more important than others and there isn’t one mission more relevant than others. We all struggle and fight for our mission, for our daily effort. We all put all of ourselves in what we are doing…

One thing to pay attention to is how much you are reinventing yourself. When you are busy or feel tired it is hard to keep it up and make sure you have the constant creative tension that makes you create…

The real secret is that we don’t have to put too much effort in looking for the right thing because that’s hidden in everything we do and see. Every single experience we make brings with it some sort of input…

Don’t ever forget where you come from and what moves you. That will always make the difference and will inform you about what to do.

Who said we have to create something new every single day?! For me, it’s not so much about creating something new as it is about training our creative muscles to be active. For that very reason, recycling is ok and…

It doesn’t happen often to see mastery at work, how someone who really understand what he or she is doing and applies it to their work in an excellent way. It happens if you approach it with serendipity, if you…

We often find ourselves saying we didn’t have time, we didn’t have enough time, time wasn’t nice to us, we ran out of time… I’m not sure if that counts for me. Time is a condition, we can’t control it,…

There are these days where I can’t see well and clearly. Autumn is here and that always has some sort of effect on me. The change of the hour, the season, the short days. I just can’t see well and clearly….

Sometimes we only have what’s left, and has to be enough. We can’t always keep what we do and we have done as an untouched, clean and pure thing. We can’t be sure what we create remains as it was…

When I walk I look around a lot and I think one of my qualities is to notice things. I tend to notice details and corners that aren’t necessarily interesting for others and, actually, this blog gets a lot of…

Don’t think too much. Don’t think twice. Don’t think about what others will say. Don’t think about what’s right and what’s wrong. Don’t look for balance. Don’t look for perfection. Don’t look for something else. Don’t look back. Be present….

What does it mean to be original? In how many ways can we be original? Is it about doing something new? Or different? Or an original adaptation of something existing is enough? I don’t really believe in limited editions, in…

What’s more important than having clear references to go back to when lost, tired or just distracted? We should always have something to aim to go back to, a little detail or sign telling us what to do in case…

Creating is not always a matter of picking up the first thing and transform it into what you need. There are days, like today for me, where you look for inspiration, for a sign, for the one thing that will make…

Creating is like being in a constant lab. You are experimenting, putting together ideas, mixing different ingredients, testing some options, eliminating others. A lab in continuous evolvement and change, a place where mistakes are welcome and new ways of doing are…

When you haven’t much to say or you have no clue of where to go fishing for ideas, go abstract. Abstraction is taking a step back and look at something with a fresh perspective, something that means nothing and everything at…

In a world of technologies and constant and fast innovation, I find my kids an enormous source of inspiration for going slow and think different. It’s easy to look at them and get inspired, to what hasn’t been planned or…

I already wrote how important it is, in my opinion, to give ourselves a reward when we achieve an objective: this reward can be anything, from a present to a kind of food, from free time to cook a cake….

Great ideas are the ones that go straight to the point. Once somebody told me that the more it takes me to explain my idea the less is likely to be a good one. Good ideas are generally simple, affordable…

When we create something we always need to be aware we are leaving traces behind. This means that we want whatever we do to be meaningful and worthwhile in some way, which might affect the way we create or take…

Learn to recognize when is time to take a break and slow down. Enjoy it.

Everything we do is itself a little mission, in the sense of having an objective and a strategy to get it done. We are all into a daily mission with our lives and committed to making things happen. Creativity is…

Doing something every day has really one major requirement: getting it done. It has to do with rhythm, practice, patience…but most of all is really about doing it. And, the more I do it the more I realize how much…

You just have to pay attention and look for it, but creativity and ideas are everywhere around us. People ask me where I find inspiration for these posts and time to post them, every day. And my answer is always…

Smiling is one of the best ways to take life. A smile is a present, given or taken. Smiling helps you connect, with people and possibilities. A smile will open doors and reveal feelings. Giving a smile as a present will…

What’s inside your luggage? Is your luggage usually big or small? How many things do you need to bring with you when traveling? Are you a light traveler or a heavy one? Think about our luggage on a creative journey….

I’m a big believer in early mornings. I always loved to wake up early and start doing things before anybody else could call me or reach out in any way. Here are a few reasons why I love that and…

Creating is not a solo act. It is not a selfish, individual and solitary act. Creating resides in our hands, not mine, not yours. It’s by definition an act of offering and receiving at the same time and only by…

One thing a day. One video a day. One drawing a day. One post a day. “Why” is often the one question I ask myself, whatever I am doing. Why am I doing it? Why am I where I am?…

Creativity is a flow of different things happening, sometimes at the same time, sometimes in different places, sometimes with different feelings. Our role is to live with this flow, understand and accept its directions and intentions, let the flow come…

To create is to make choices. To make choices is to risk. To risk is to try. To try is to achieve. There’s something extremely relevant in making choices. We make choices all the time about everything and they affect…

What could go wrong? That’s the question you want to ask yourself when creating or approaching anything creative. It is not so much about what you will get right or how it will look like as much as it is…

Good news! You just need to realize that not knowing is ok and live with it… It might sound obvious or banal but that’s actually often a pretty big deal. We believe that to create, to have ideas and be…

It doesn’t matter how busy, tired, discouraged, in the wrong mood or late…Make it! The best way to get ideas out and things done is to make them happen. To make, no matter what, is a great way at least…

I’m a big fan of rules. And I also think rules are there to be broken! There’s so much happening and emerging when we break a given rule or a rule we set for ourselves. New discoveries, new possibilities, new…

Ocean view? Street view? Panorama view? What room do you need to create something? In my opinion, we only need a life view. A window into other people’s life, thoughts, movements. Sometimes is enough to just look at what we have…

Creating anything involves effort and dedication. Nothing happens by chance or without putting energy into it. So it ends up that creativity and idea generation is a little bit like doing homework…let me explain. Homeworks are there to help us…

There are days where everything speaks about love and love moves everything you have around. Love, passion, feelings, sentiments…these are all elements strongly connected to our creative part of the brain and they often drive and influence our creativity. So…

I learned so much from my kids… I believe the most important thing is that it is always worth the effort. Whatever you do with passion, with commitment, putting yourself in it and trying to achieve something, it’s worth the…

What is that I’m doing? What is that I’m trying to achieve? What is this blog and what is this post? It’s all an excuse, and that’s my point. It’s an excuse to observe intentionally, to try not to miss…

Some days I am amazed by the beauty of little things and I would just stare at them and enjoy them silently. Some days, that’s all I need to feel I’ll be able to create something new again, soon.

Creativity is often a matter of being able to see the shades of ideas coming as options. We are often so focused on “getting it right” that we forget that first of all we need to get it! And it…

When creating nothing more normal than going against some form of disaster… Trying something out, testing, prototyping, throwing out ideas leads to uncertain and unexpected consequences and that’s part of the creative process. Disasters, in my opinion, are ways to demonstrate we tried…

Your ideas, your inner creativity, your forms of expression, all your feelings and insights are often just locked somewhere. Sometimes, perhaps most of the times, they are hidden and locked somewhere; you believe your role is to find them but…

When you create you are giving a piece of yourself away each time. In fact, the more what you create is personal and deeply connected to who you are and what you feel, the more likely will be something valuable…

Changing perspective, we know it, helps improve our experience. Getting closer is one way, and it helps to see things we didn’t see. Not only because of proximity but also, and most of all, for what new portions of information…

You thought writing notes on your hands was for you when you were a kid. You thought that losing an idea was ok since you had so many. You believed note taking is not for cool people. And that’s where you got…

We often think there is one way to do things or another. Well, there might be another one too, and one more, and one more again: we just don’t look carefully enough! Things can be very different depending on where…

We often do things thinking or hoping others will notice. In creativity that’s almost a subtitle to everything we do, since what we create has to be consumed” by somebody else one way or another… So it is really important to…

This blog post could have easily been titled “Fake It Until You Make It”. Creativity is often a matter of belief and not so much about facts. If you believe in yourself and what you can achieve, you will probably make…

The secret of doing is, no doubt, just DOING IT! The real issue is that to do it, to make it happen, to move things around, to change something takes often a lot of courage and, always, at least a little bit…

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In a creative process, we often want to make sure we are looking at the areas we don’t usually would look into. That makes our ideas and creativity fresher and offers more choices to choose from. Typically we see what…

I’m a big fan of not sleeping enough and using the saved sleeping time to “do stuff”. I still am a big fan of it, but over time I rethought my very integral approach to this concept. I think sleeping…

Some days, as previously shared, only talk about how we sometimes need to take a pause from the rest. This is one of them and I’m fully into it. That pause (silence) will bring more ideas (music) and I’ll be ready by…

Our sensitivity helps us get ideas and make them true as much as understanding when there’s too much on our plate. Our ability to create is directly proportionate to our capacity to recognize when something is too much and take a…

Insist. Getting your idea done is not always a matter of luck or instinct, although it is often the case. It is probably more likely to happen because we insisted on what we were doing, so much that we overcame…

Even though I’m a strong believer in multiple possibilities and choices, sometimes there’s really only one way to go. And that might be true for ideas and ideas generation. They can come from anywhere, emerge and come up by mistake,…

Looking back helps put things in perspective and often ideas arrive from one of those perspectives. Looking at what we have been and what we have done is a great way to reconnect with a source of ideas and creativity…

They say you have to get to the bottom and start back. They say the bottom of a coffee cup says some kind of unexpected magic about the future. And so I looked at the bottom of this cup and…

I don’t know if this the place or not and I’ve been wondering. Sometimes it seems it is the right one and sometimes it feels like it’s not. Having, sharing, growing ideas isn’t a job, it isn’t a task you…

It is not what it is but what we make of it. The future, the planet, our ideas, our dreams only come true if we can give them a shape, if we can at least see that shape in our…

Creativity is somehow like filling in the missing piece, finding something for the empty moment of a day, understanding what needs to be there in which moment. As if life and our creative existence were part of a long line,…

What is it that makes us move, imagine, create? What is it that makes us believe, become, share? People make me so curious: I look at them and try to imagine what they think, what they dream, what they want….

I can see that, and I see it blurry… There are days where ideas and feelings are blurry, things are not easy to understand or figure out, the point seems complicated to get straight and right. Those are in my mind…

Ideas are like drops in the ocean. They are apparently very small, tiny, insignificant. Without every single drop, though, the ocean wouldn’t even be there.

Putting yourself at the center means sometimes letting go and giving space to yourself and gaining back the energy you need to actually make things happen. This blog and exercise are being a great way to reflect on things like…

Actually, a great question to ask yourself and an interesting answer to find. Once you know, you can start and complete whatever you want.

What if our next idea would be our final sale? What if whatever we are going to invent and create was the last piece we were putting on our list of priorities? Sometimes thinking about our next idea as a…

What we were looking for is not alwasy what we have in front of us. Sometimes it’s around it, sometimes is somewhere else, sometimes is just a shadow of the real thing. In creating, we need to focus not only…

Keeping our eyes open is essential to be able to remember therefor imagine and then create. Our eyes are the primary source of our feelings, it is where most things come through and reach our other senses and I always…

Ideas, like packages, sometimes get delivered in time and sometimes they don’t, they get lost or don’t find the address, get it wrong or a witness of somebody’s negligence. We have to just make our best to make sure we…

I like to think of ideas as one of many signs on a wall, a mix of things you can’t really understand or distinct but that are anyway delivering messages and emotions. The point with ideas, and graffiti, and emotions…it…

The challenge of doing something, no matter what it is, every single day is not an easy challenge. It is a rewarding one though for all that I learn, create, share. It is a habit, it becomes a need and…

Sometimes I wonder What is the right choice What makes a choice right And what that even means.

What’s the reason we do things? Why do we actually act, take initiative, create? I like to think that most of it it’s because of each of us. We mainly do things because something inside us is telling us to do…

It is a good practice to look at things through somebody else’s eyes. Especially when doing over and over the same thing, or when we have the sense that’s what’s happening, it is good to give it another view. And…

It’s one line connecting all of our ideas. It’s one line connecting all of our thoughts. It’s one line connecting all of the things. It’s one line connecting all of us. It’s one we need to look for, build, sustain,…

There’s some sort of beauty in death and decadence…and so it was for these sunflowers. Their deadly angle only made me think of beauty and romanticism as if in their death there was something fascinating and joyful. As if death,…

Just like wood for winter, we want a lot of options available for when our creative mind will be cold. Yet another metaphor, for one of the key concepts in creativity: always stack lots of different ideas, in an archive,…

A key factor in creativity and idea generation is to keep the ball rolling… There shouldn’t be any external or internal factor which stops us from doing, producing, ideating, putting out what we have in mind. And if there’s nothing…

There’s something deep and beautiful in imperfection. Just like when you do a tasty cake and it doesn’t look esthetically as good as it is in your mouth… And I want to celebrate that imperfection. The done better than perfect….

I find a lot of it being capable to live with the flow by accepting it. Having ideas, creating, realizing them…isn’t easy nor completely natural! It takes effort, energy, time, focus, luck…all the things I write about all the time….

It’s not that nothing is there, it is just that today it didn’t find its way to come out and the only thing I could think of was the dark, which is not necessarily always empty. The little lights in it…

If life is made of cycles and so is history, why not our creative processes? We go in cycles all the time with our creativity, from moments when everything comes our way easily and smoothly and others where we struggle….

One thing you want to make sure to do when creating and wanting to create something new all the time is to change your habits. Even this blog becomes more and more the same thing if I don’t pay attention…

Creating involves always at least something else along with an idea. An idea isn’t enough; surely a good start, it doesn’t complete the effort, it doesn’t take it to the end. An idea always needs something else to become reality…

Try. Something. New. Every. Single. Day.

Ideas are like rituals. You don’t know exactly why they are there and what you are doing with them, but you keep going back there and enjoy the experience, with a little bit of mystery involved.

I wonder what the fly wanted to tell me. And so I do thinking about ideas and how they arrive to me, in the middle of a reading or while running in the morning. It’s interesting to think that everything…

Ideas are always made of at least two essential pieces. There’s the spark of an idea. That thing we think it’s right, we develop into something else, we prototype into a draft of something. Then there’s the willingness to make it…

Many times it is about what guides us. In some cases, it’s just a number. You know it, you follow it, you get on the right path and to the right destination. In other cases, it is something else, and…

Sometimes looking at the mega we miss the mini and the other way around. I was looking at this picture where my main focus was the profile of the huge mountains against the even bigger blue sky. And while looking…

To create is to find the right path and follow it. Like when hiking, we plan where to go, we don’t always end up there or in the right direction, but there are signs we can follow to get it…

Holy Creativity, Come to me every day without exceptions and without interruptions. I will always be faithful and grateful for your support and will share all I have with other, strangers and closest. I will always recognize your magnitude and your…

Something new, with a new light, comes out of the dark night. Only in the middle of nature, I recall the force of the instinct and the lack of need for anything else. Creation for me, for its majority, is…

In order to create something new sometimes it is extremely useful to turn things upside down, to look at things from a different perspective, to find new angles. Sometimes, that doesn’t even come from you but from somebody else, and…

To create is to live. To live is to search. To search is to live. To live is to create.

The more I think and write about this topic, how to have, generate, develop and deliver ideas, the more I understand about myself and some of my processes. To me, ideas are a way to express my “want to be”…

Things only really work if you put care in it. You have to love what you are doing, care about it, put effort, yourself in them. It takes time and patience and dedication to do it. It’s a practice, and…

I’m not as scared by a blank page as much as I am by a black one. A white page is scary because it often seems hard or impossible to fill, but at least is a source of possibilities and…

Creating looks a little bit like traveling. You have to know where you are gong ideally before doing your luggage and making plans.  Just the same way as we plan for a trip we need to prepare for a creative…

It is a good practice to go back to what we have done and we have not practiced for a long time. It helps to open our horizons again, to imagine new possibilities, to give space to memories and past…

Ideas are like wood. You see them as concrete and tangible. You use them and enjoy them. Then they become ashes and all you see is what you are able to remember.

I wrote other times about what inspires me in writing this blog or where I get the ideas to write about how to have ideas. One of my ways is to notice what I notice first. It isn’t necessarely the…

I see things and sometimes they talk to me. Then I listen to what they have to say. Images, most of the time, have something to say, something to tell me specifically. That’s what happens with this blog and how…

I ask myself this question very often: why? Why am I doing what I’m doing? Why does it matter? Why should I keep doing it? It is like looking at yourself in the mirror and accept what you find there….

Look around, look behind, look with care, look! Ideas are all around us and often our task is just to see them and grab them. I do the same for these posts: I walk around and live my life until…

If there’s one thing that’s relevant and essential in creating something, either every day or every now and then it’s finding the right balance. A balance between effort and breaks, intensity and slowness, running and walking. It is so essential…

Nothing’s easier than just learning from them, from kids. They know how to dream wildly and without limits, without prejudice and happily. They know how to go for what you want and need without asking for permission and without too much…

We all set our standards for what happiness looks like and we should never forget the context we live in to set those standards. Being happy with what we are and what we have is essential. Creativity often comes from a…

Wholeheartedness. When we feel something, we never get tired of it. If we like it, we do it and we smile while doing it. That’s the only secret: to idea generation, to creativity, to success and, more easily, to personal…

Today is one of those days where an image will talk for me, where the post is a transition, where the idea is just an excuse to not stop doing it, where a flower in the middle of cement and…

Ideas grow from places that are often unexpected, unintentional and unplanned and so we should live them. Don’t wait for them to come, just notice where they are already growing and use them.

Creativity is just like a candy: it tastes good and sweet way before you open it, and it only gets better once you actually try it out.

Ideas shouldn’t have too much calculation behind them. If it’s true they are the expression of our feelings and thoughts they should be just a reflection of them. By that, I mean that the fear we (I?) have sometimes of…

It’s up to you. Take risks and go ahead, do it, try it hard, then try harder. Creating, having ideas, translating them into action and something tangible in general is really up to you at the end of the day….

Sometimes it’s only a matter of choosing the right colour for an image, something that works with what’s next or nearby, something that matches the moment or the spirit, something that talks more than anything else in that very moment….

That’s what’s about to create: putting the pieces together. We have pieces of ideas every single day: they show up as a complete piece, or separate details totally disconnected, sometimes they show up in different moments but with the same…

It is our task as creators to identify and amplify beauty. It is one of my favourite things to look outside the window of a car or a bus or a train and see what reveals to me. Colours, shapes,…

When I go to a live concert I often think about why I do it. What is relevant in listening to music I already know, sometimes even too well, in a live version? What’s the difference in the performance, especially…

I like symmetry. I like geometry. I like lines. I like shapes. I like hidden signs. I like bright colours. I like unexpected patterns. I like dots. I like the streets. I like concrete. I like patterns. I like what we…

What happens when your idea gest lost? I started to have a sketch/notebook when I was around 17. I started noticing a lot of ideas were showing up and then suddenly disappearing. Ideas were giving me a sign and then going…

When you don’t know where to start, go classic! Going classic means going back to the basics, to what’s simple and essential. Classics help us create without putting too much effort, without struggling and with a low level of stress….

Your future is in your hands. You decide what’s right and what’s wrong. It’s up to you to act and make things happen. In your hands resides every decision and every move. Your freedom is in liberating your hands and…

I’m personally a big fan of changing your seat in the workplace: I do it all the time and encourage others to do it. Changing your chair will change many little things. It will change your view, therefore your perspective on…

Doing one thing a day is a lot about learning how to stay up and don’t actually give up. Part of this exercise is about observing our limits and see where I can get: limits help to understand where we…

We all have our own way of doing things and that’s probably one of the first things to consider when creating something. Do it your way! Consider suggestions, insights, experience, context and all the rest…but ultimately, do it the way…

The Creative Process is about a cycle and we are at the centre of it. We can make big things that attract attention as much as small things people get attracted by. Explore something in details and notice how people…

We need variety, an abundance of opinions, different points of view. To create means not to focus our energy on one thing and narrowing our attention. To create means opening to possibilities and different voices, listening to every side of our…

One way to go when stuck with your idea(s) is to take what you have and deconstruct it, basically break it into pieces. The “thing” might not make sense by itself, but its pieces will if you look carefully. First,…

…Everything goes down. It’s not so much about the pill or the sugar as much as it is about finding your way. What makes it sweet and doable for you? What makes the difference in what you have to do…

Never forget to look in between things and not only in their face. Often, what’s hidden in between is far more interesting and stimulating then what you see in the first place, bot because it’s new for you and for others who…

There are those days and times when everything and every force seems to be going in the wrong direction, or in general against our will. Those days and times are the ones that require the biggest effort in finding our…

Procrastination isn’t itself a bad thing. I often procrastinate with something to give myself the time and the chance to think deeper, to digest an idea or to let it stay with me long enough so that I can get a…

I used to hate grey skies and rainy days. I used to change my mood and my approach to the day based on the weather and specifically based on the colour of the sky. Shades of grey have always made…

Sometimes is all about the little things. You don’t need major events or showy things to be happy and satisfied: if we take the time to look deeper we’ll find out the little things are the ones that make the difference….

The devil is in the details…no doubt! Details are boring, often uncomfortable, hard to face and to manage. Details are what make our whole more interesting and valuable though, and we should never under consider them. Details are there even…

One thing a day is about a good strategy for sure. A strategy that helps you plan for the details and for the inconvenience. A strategy that helps you shape a vision and execute. A strategy which involves risk-taking and…

Yes, it ain’t easy. Sometimes creating is a real challenge and we face it with all of us. That’s when all other tools and suggestions come our way and show us possible solutions and options; that’s when we need to…

Those days when you can’t see clearly just accept and enjoy the view. That’s the best thing you can do.

Ideas are like lightning strikes: you see them passing by, you admire them, you know they will come back but you can’t always know exactly when. What enables us to keep an idea and make it tangible transforming it into…

There’s no doubt a lot of this blog is about Doing. Doing as an act of creation, of feeling alive and active, of experimenting and learning, of putting things out in the world and look at the reaction. I’m not…

To create, you have to erase. There’s no creation without letting go what has been. There’s no space for the new if we hold to the old and keep it as the reference for what wants to emerge. I used…

One thing I definitely find useful while creating is to be good at archiving. An archive isn’t only good to make sure you don’t lose what you are working on and everything you create in general, but also and mostly…

Part of the practice is to find new ways, new paths, new insights and that’s something we should be trying every day. I find useful and necessary for me to be part of the ones who are trying something new…

I basically write everything I learn and apply every day in this blog. I write what I notice and what I think is worth sharing, hoping that it will lead to some great ideas and will inspire people going through…

There are times when all you can do is using what you have. And that’s often already pretty good! This is to say that of course, we can create all the rules and precautions we want, but in the moment…

Inspiration comes from anything and can be found anywhere. I’m not only convinced of this but I also believe it is the only way things actually happen. Everything in our world happens all the time: things move, change, adapt, switch,…

I talk about the center as the place we need in order to be. We can move around and live in uncertainty, but especially if we want to create anything we need to find a center. See it as a…

In going through one of the many versions of the archetypes available out there, the one that talks about sovereign, warrior, magician, and lover, I do get fascinated by this last one the most. I connect the Lover energy to…

When we are stuck with something, being an idea, a project of work or life, a decision…one great thing to do is to change your perspective. This sounds as banal as effective. There’s nothing better than taking a step back,…

There’s always a window to be found, metaphorically or realistically speaking. There’s the window that we notice while taking a walk because it says something about those who are behind it or hide any kind of secret; windows that tell stories and…

One thing is clear when you want to do something every day, when you are trying to apply your knowledge, to develop new skills, to push your boundaries. You should never stop trying and mostly, loving what you are doing….

Working with ideas is like floating in the air without a destination. Most of the times we don’t know where we will be finding our ideas or where they will be coming from. Mostly, we see them coming and recognize…

Some things take time and you need to leave them the time needed to happen. Sometimes it means letting it go and just observe what’s going on from a distance.

Looking for ideas is like going through a tunnel where vision isn’t always clear. In fact, you can’t always predict how long a tunnel is until you are in it and you start seeing bits of light coming through. Some tunnels are…

Everything is, after all, and indeed, a matter of practice. We depend on what we do, on how much we do, on the time we are willing to spend and invest in practicing something. That something depends on our practice,…

While we do what we do we often wonder how it will look. We plan and design and iterate and create with the end in mind, with an image of the final result and how that will look like for…

I’m a big fan of to-do lists and detailed plans. I love spending and investing time to put together all the pieces I need to create the bigger picture. I enjoy making mental sketches of ideas and prototype versions of a…

Traveling is one of the best ways to get ideas going. I find the source of inspiration of a trip, anywhere, a rich and amazing source. I find that when I travel I find inspiration easily everywhere. Ideas and inspiration…

Just like in a fairy tale, in our dreams, anything can happen. And since are our dream that translates into our reality, most of the times, it is important to believe in fairy tales! This is the thing. Our ideas,…

When we need to come up with an idea for something, especially if every day or just often, there’s no doubt that mess can help. Less can help too, but not always provide a solution. Mess does provide options and…

I believe in forces. Forces driving our lives, our decisions, our behaviors. Forces influencing our destiny, our moves, our broader future. I believe there are moments we need to focus on ourselves, on our own forces and energies and do…

Sometimes there isn’t much to say about talent, luck, intuition, ideas, and sharing. Sometimes it isn’t much more than doing our job, which is about…doing! It is by doing that we learn, it is by doing we test and iterate,…

It is not about what you achieve as much as how you get there. Milestones are a great way to add data to your CV but they are not what makes you what you are. We need to be able…

                  And then comes the moment where you celebrate a finish line and although it might well not be the one you were envisioning, you enjoy it. With creativity as well as…

It’s always good to ask yourself this question. It helps define where you are and where you want to be. It helps to identify a filter for your decisions and your actions. What are you looking for in the creative action?…

One of the basic rules is: count on yourself. Whatever you do or plan to do, there isn’t anyone or anything more reliable than yourself. Technology, tools, plans, friends, references…they can all collapse, sooner or later, or disappear. They are…

I just want to say that one would follow what he or she is passionate about. I love symmetry I just love things that balance each other, images that provide a sense of coherence and simple convergence of lines and…

I’ve been writing a lot about how to get your ideas and how we can come up with something. I’ve been doing lists and sharing thoughts about where ideas come from and why and how. I had the chance to share…

The best way to let something new come our way is to let something else go. For me, it is about letting go what doesn’t need to be there at that specific moment. It is the “too much” or “too many”…

Ideas don’t come from “nothing”. They come from “something”. That something can be in what we do every day, in some habits, in a comfortable place. It can be something we practice all the time or in something we are…

Accept what comes. Accept it’s not enough or way too much. Accept what it is. Accept what it becomes. Accept it won’t be the last time. Accept what it isn’t. Accept what it brings to you. Accept what it takes away…

I love books. I love the smell of books. I love the design of books. I love having books around. Books make me feel alive, surrounded by knowledge and feelings, full of potentials and ideas. I’ve been looking for and collecting…

What I always want to have available is a variety of options and possibilities. I want to be able to choose between several different options and never find myself in a place of emptiness. I find variety comes also and…

When looking for an idea I try to go back to the core of the request, this being from myself or from someone else. The core is where the origin of every idea resides, is where the light of anything…

There isn’t one condition that helps to create and one would think that the ideal one is to be steady at your desk and think and reflect and generate thoughts. In many cases, though, idea come while running somewhere else and…

One of the things that I’m most fascinated by about idea generation is how casual it is sometimes the process of coming up with something. I find that is always and never by chance, it is always a combination of…

I notice how a few things influence my attitude and behavior: weather and time. I think I have a really good relationship with time: I think that time is a condition we can’t change and just by acting that way we…

It is not important to win as much as it is to participate. You have to be there, you only have to show up and be present. There isn’t much else to do.  Ideas run with you, around you, in…

Let’s say I prefer abundance to scarcity (which will receive its full consideration in another post). Abundance can sound like too much or not needed, like something in addition to what’s just enough. Abundance with a negative meaning and message,…

There’s a joke from when I was a kid about the child who wants to show his mom how he’s able to go on the bike without his hands and then without his feet and then…without his teeth! These posts…

Ideas are there waiting for us and they are much more resistant than we are. Like a flower in the snow, they know how to find their way and resist; they adapt to the conditions they find and finally find…

Many times, looking for an idea, we stop in front of the first thing we see or we come up with. It’s almost like being on this side of a window, seeing through it and not being able to get…

There are moments that aren’t anywhere. Those moments where we are suspended in between thoughts, places, time. Those moments where don’t feel anything but the transition in which we are. While traveling, those are often moments we spend in airports…

Why can’t “Thinking out of the window” be as good as “Thinking out of the box”? For me they are the same thing, in both cases, you are looking for what’s not necessarily next to you, for what is out of…

I love traveling. I love discovering new places as much as I like finding again the ones I know well. I think of traveling as the greatest opportunity to open ourselves to what’s out there and we miss every day…

Reflecting on what this blog and these posts are about I wonder which part of me is making this work. Is it the one that works every day and is busy doing other stuff? Is it the creative person who…

It’s better to start from something than nothing. It is easier to transform something we already into something new than creating from zero. And so why not breaking what we already have and starting from that? I want to explore…

“Never, never, never give up” Winston Churchill used to say. Same thing with ideas. You don’t want to give up until the end until you actually managed not to give up and come up with something. It is like the…

When things get hard in creating I tend to go back to the basics. This to me means playing with the extremes, not choosing a half way but looking for the place where things get peculiar for some reason. It…

When creating ideas I want to make sure I have choices available. There are all sorts of choices we can create at all different levels. We can look for variety, creating a display of options we can fish from when…

I love patterns and details that create patterns. I often notice details that create a visual message, apparently insignificant uses of materials and space that create a new story. A lot of my photography is around those visions, around not-so-interesting…

Where we work and create is important. The environment we act within is essential to create the conditions to ideate and develop new ideas. It is important to create these conditions and work in a space that helps creativity to express…

Look Up, look down, look around, look backwards. Look! Change your position, the position of your eye, the view of your body, the position of your feelings. Changing is important, we know that. As important is to create our own…

You shouldn’t steal ideas or pieces of ideas from others but you can definitely look at what others do as a form of inspiration. I always thought the best way to learn is to copy. Picasso used to do the…

Our life is made of routines and defaults. We wake up and basically take the same actions, repeat the same patterns and go in the same directions. Breaking those routines helps. Creating the conditions to get rid of our defaults…

A mistake is often a revelation, an element of disruption in our own order, a much-needed sign of change in a pattern. A mistake can break a habit and create a new way. It leaves space for imperfection, which is…

The secret is to never say no. Never say no to an idea that comes your way, never decline an invitation to create, invent, dream. It’s usually very tiny and it doesn’t have a lot of energy, just like a…

We ARE stories. We are stories to tell and we should not retain ourselves from doing so. Dig into the layers of your essential being and see what’s there. We all have multiple faces and stories that interact and interlink with…

I love street art. I love almost any form of street art and in general, I appreciate any form of expression which doesn’t accept given rules and creates its own each time. I love how street art can take the…

Time is condition and not a choice. Time is what we have to make our ideas and projects live within. It’s a border line drawn by life: sometimes a loose line, sometimes a line without options of flexibility. What we want to…

We constantly need to remember to keep dreaming, which doesn’t necessarily mean you have to sleep on your thoughts. Keeping a dream alive means being able to imagine the unexpected, picturing a project until we make it. We need to…

There’s nothing better than a friend to support you getting things done. She or he can be your touching point to check in for your idea, to validate your intuitions, to track your progress just by asking how it’s going…

A lot is about noticing things. Keeping your eyes open means keeping your heart open to possibilities; being creative means having the ability to keep that door open, to leave ideas and feelings come through without barriers. In that regard,…

Ideas are always just around the corner. Sometimes it seems they are hiding but they are actually just there, ready to be found. I often find myself walking around the city and suddenly there will be something catching my attention,…

There are days like today where I know it has to come. Day two is always weird because I wonder if Day One made any sense and then start thinking about what should go next. Is it going to be…

The first day – just like the first second or minute or hour – is always the most difficult one. I don’t usually know what I want to do, where I want to go, what I should use and what…