by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Creativity, talking about art
Art is all around us, I’ve said this many times. It is a great exercise to talk to children about the art they see – that does not only mean visits to the gallery – but artwork for sale in shops, sculptures, street art, garden sculptures, art in...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | business thinking, Creativity
Imagine my excitement when I opened the January-February Top 1,000 issue of Australia’s Business Review Weekly to see an article on Australia’s lack lustre innovation quotient. Excitement…Nicky, you may ask, this is not a good article… Well...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Inspiration
I promise this is not what is seems, with valentine’s day drawing nearer and all! I was inspired by a newsletter I received from ‘Seth Goden and the friendly folk at the Domino Project’ – if you are not on the mailing list do yourself a...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | brain development, education
So dear readers, my quest to validate creative thinking has lead me to an excellent article by Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. on the Psychology Today blog (back in May 2010) “Want Children to “Pay Attention”? Make Their Brains Curious!” Funny that...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | arts participation, revolutionary art
For those of you not familiar with the ‘TED’ talks they stand for Technology, Education, Design. Their motto is ‘ideas worth spreading’ and it is the most wonderful powerhouse of information from creative and intelligent thinkers movers and...
