Managing a creative environment

Creative people need to have a creative environment, not only for a place to work, but also where their ideas can grow and develop. Even though our ideas are produced in our brain, there are more factors responsible for our ideas than just our brains. This is because we are influenced by the world around us. Factors like our working environment, culture and personal interests are all very important for our creation and development of our ideas. For example, varieties and traditions within culture can stimulate each person's mind in a different way, resulting in a variety of unique and diverse ideas. It is for this reason that it is important to have a successful working environment. By surrounding yourself with the tools of your profession, such as pencils for an illustrator and lenses for a photographer, you are allowing yourself to be reminded of the creative possibilities you have, as well as the limitations. Both the possibilities and limitations will affect what ideas you think of, as well as the ways you try to overcome the limitations/problems you face. A creative environment can also influence how open minded you become, resulting in you taking a different approach to your work than other designers would, making your work.

My creative working environment

By forming collections of thing, no matter what you choose to collect and surrounding yourself with those in your creative working environment can also greatly benefit your work. For example Mel Milton, the creator of Pixar, covers the walls in his working environment with drawings of the characters he has created. This is so he can take inspiration from his previous work when creating characters for a new animation. He is able to see what factors from previous characters were successful and could be adjusted for a new character, whilst all being able to see if his new ideas are too similar to his previous work.

A lot of the inspiration and ideas I produce are inspired by the artwork on and inside C.D. covers. Most of the booklets inside C.D. cases contain a mixture of photography, graphics and illustration and work together to communicate a visual representation of the music and musician/s. I find the combination of these ways of creative ways of working important for my own work because I think that only using one medium will limit the possible visual outcomes.