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Creative Juice Blog
Today is the kick off for 2011’s World Creativity and Innovation Week, which runs through April 21st. This week is designed to encourage and inspire people to use their creativity to make the world a better place and in doing so their place in the world better too. Like turning on a light bulb, this week’s [...]
Stitching to connect with other creative types? This past Saturday crafters gathered here to be a part of Chicago’s latest Craft Social. It was a fun-filled event that gathered up like-minded crafters to connect with one another and learn some new crafts. Guests had a choice of 14 different crafts to participate in, projects ranging from [...]
Color is certainly an ingredient which adds spark or more like lights the spark to creativity and innovation. When it comes to space and the use of color we definitely know a thing or two for adding the shaazam to the every day. From the bright red wall when you first get off the elevator to [...]
Second looks. What makes people slow down and take that second look? Creativity and ingenuity are pretty clear factors that go into making a “wow” factor. Recently I ran across this artist on the creative art blog BOOOOOOOOM!, who left me guessing. I realized that even with life flying by, especially now with the holidays being [...]
The windy city, Chicago, sees its fair share of rainy days, today is definitely one of them. Looking at these images is a sure way to spark some creativity into your life for the day. Enjoy! I love Gregory Thielker’s awe-inspiring oil paintings which explore the sensation of seeing through a car windshield while driving through [...]
Lassos, Mr. Ed and a whole lot of cowpokes made for an exciting Rip Roaring Rodeo for our 8th Anniversary this past Monday. We told you to pull out those cowboy boots and hat for a chance to party rodeo style and that’s exactly what you did! Thanks ya’ll for making our Rip Roaring Rodeo such [...]
With Halloween right around the corner, people have been carving pumpkins like madmen. Well, there’s a Russian artist who has been doing a little carving of his own, but instead of using pumpkins he’s using a different type of food. He’s turning watermelons, apples and cabbage into ghoulishly gruesome skulls. Dimitri Tsykalov‘s fruit skulls are impressive [...]
Cardboard, Styrofoam, Plywood are just a few in a list of ordinary objects, Tobias Putrih uses to build his not-so-ordinary sculptures. His fragile structures span from small modular objects to larger installation environments that create a distorted narrative. The sculpture and installation work often distorts space and manipulates the viewer’s perception. Tobias Putrih's work is based [...]
We all are innovators in our own ways. We know how creative you can be, we have seen it over and over again from focus groups to ideation sessions, you all bring the “sky is the limit” to the ranch. Now here is a chance to gather with like minded friends both new and old [...]
“10% what happens to you, 90% how you react to it” -Olek Loops, loops and more loops of yarn make up artist Olek’s vibrant, intense in your face installations that bring the art of crochet to a whole new level. The clashing colors crocheted together create socially conscious public “actions” that shape, inform and transform the [...]