Mini Creative Task - Coffee Machine

We were told to quickly 'design and sketch a new innovative coffee machine', after the inspiration of watching OKGO's music video 'This Too Shall Pass' (Rude Goldberg Version). The video was an interesting idea using a continues marble run. It was intended to be a new and innovative idea and one which interested the audience through the visuals. I found the video interesting paying more attention to the video than the actual music.

I think the idea of creating an innovative coffee machine was interesting. I think it contrasts with the quote by Jones 1993 who claimed ‘A process needed for problem solving…not a special gift enjoyed by a few but a common ability possessed by most people’.

The quote says 'a process needed for problem solving'. The coffee machine can be turned into a creative idea, but it still solves the same problem that was apparent in the first place.

The coffee machine I created:

10 Inspiring "Creativity" Quotes

I usually try and take inspiration from physical objects rather that a quote with just words. I feel this help me more during a task that involves creativity however after search for these 10 quotes I have found they can have a lot of meaning behind them especially when related to the people that said them. These are the ones that stood out to me and I can relate to:

Steve Jobs - "Creativity is just connecting things, when you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they really didn't do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after while"

Ken Robinson - "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original"

Leo Burnett - "Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people"

Albert Einstein - "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

Erich Fromm - "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"

Charles Mingus - "Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity"

   

Marcel Dunchamp - "I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste"

Andy Warhol - "You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things"

Hernest Hemingway - "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"

Maya Angelou - "You can't use up creativity, the more you use, the more you have"

Creativity Task.

1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.
2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.
3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.
4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover, then upload it to the CD memepool

This task questions wheither creativity is something that can be created through almost no effort at all and therefor 'everyone' can be creative.

My result:

 

Artist name: Marie Emmannelle Bayon Louis

Album Title: Forget to be afraid

It took a couple of minutes to create this album cover which in my opinion looks "creative". This has made me think abosut what creativity is and has made me think about different elements that influence creativity in both my work and other peoples. I think it shows that anyone can create something that looks creative without even needing to be creative in the process.