Thinking about creativity, the label of being a creative, and the relationship between service and expression as a designer.

Even though there's a few more days to go in this year's Art Soundoff creative challenge, I'm looking at my experience of this year's challenge asking what went well and what could be better.

This summer indie creator and publisher Jaques Nyemb shared and 8-episode fascinating thoughtful and fun micropodcast series called Slow Dooown. Each episode Jaques asks a question of the audience and in this episode of the Polytechnicast I share some replies and thoughts about collaborating, social presence, and being sustainably creative.

While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you drawing?" I describe some of the drawings I'm working on now and how they are based on holiday gifts I created last year.

While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you learning?" I share a few things I'm learning in both a business context and casual play context.

In a recent conversation I shared with someone that I can identify with being introverted though in recent years consider myself an ambivert. As I've noticed in previous conversations, the term ambivert is not as well known.

At the start of a project I've already gathered things that help me commit.

I share a few options for my favorite tool and consider how I probably have a bunch of favorite things that help me with understanding, considering, and solving problems.

I share an idea about making a game of exploring options and scenarios for combining different parts of a business to solve problems for the audience.

Thinking about how I get moving again on creative projects feels related to how I got stuck in the first place.