The Creative Itch

I like what she's done with these. More here: http://imgur.com/gallery/zIfIY/

Artist Imagines NBA Playoffs Matchups in Unique Illustrations One artist managed to make NBA postseason matchups look more like battles straight from the pages of an epic...

Get inspired for the week.

Monday Morning Design Inspiration – Smashing Magazine Editor’s Note: Some people seem to have a magic touch when it comes to digging up design goodness. Veerle Pieters is one of them. As she explores print and web design, photography, art and type, she uncovers a lot of brilliant gems. And because they are too good not to share, she has compiled a sele…

"You can't program a child to become creative. Try to engineer a certain kind of success, and the best you'll get is an ambitious robot."

If You Want to Raise Creative Kids, Do These 3 Things Wharton professor Adam Grant shares a few takeaways for parents from his new book.

“To be perfectly original, one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.” Lord Byron

What Makes an Original: Psychologist Adam Grant on the Paradox of Achievement and How Motivated... “The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”

Free NASA posters!

Space Tourism Posters Fourteen space travel posters of colorful, exotic space settings are now available free for downloading and printing.

There seems to be a lot of controversy over Uber's new logo.

Uber Brand Experience Bits + Atoms: The idea at the heart of Uber—using technology to move the physical world.

For the vinyl edition, the star is cut out from the black sleeve so the record inside is visible.

"The fact that you can see the record as a physical thing that degrades, it gets scratched as soon as it comes into being, that is a comment on mortality too," said Barnbrook.

David Bowie was "facing his own mortality" says Barnbrook The cover of David Bowie's Blackstar album was designed to reflect the musician's mortality according to collaborator Jonathan Barnbrook

Never stop learning.

10 Ways to Supercharge Your Design Learning - Designmodo I’d like to share some of the techniques and methods I’ve used to learn design. I keep learning new things every day and some of the examples below are based on my personal experience trying, failing, building and succeeding.

Show your boss this today.

Less Stress in the Workplace [Infographic] Employers check out this infographic which gives you 7 of the best ways to create a stress free environment for your employees each day. Not only will they feel respected and rewarded, you will also reap the benefits of having a team that is punctual, dedicated, and that cares about the vision of yo…

Tips on dealing with burnout.

Dealing With Loud And Silent Burnout – Smashing Magazine We’ve all experienced that burnout moment. It’s that moment when we’ve got nothing left to give but keep trying anyway. Here's how to avoid it.

A terrific collection of reusable web development projects.

30 Open Source HTML/CSS Projects from CodePen A huge collection of totally free open source CodePen snippets for use in any web project from personal to commercial layouts.

Using scrolling to your advantage.

The New Rules for Scrolling in Web Design - Designmodo Interaction design is the foundation of long scrolling website design. If users like the interface and find it intuitive and fun to use, then they won’t really mind the length of the scroll (as long as it’s not atrociously long).