Creativity
Creativity

Make This Month More Creative
Want to make this month your most creative? Our resident creative expert offers up an exercise for you to complete each week. Break free from your creative rut!
Create While You Wait
As you find yourself seemingly wasting time in dreaded checkout lines or in traffic, learn to create some of your best ideas for your next design project by finding inspiration around you.

25 Great Quotes & Headlines from 25 Years of HOW
In celebration of HOW's 25th year of publication in 2010, we've pored through the 160 or so issues on our bookshelves to find the 25 most memorable quotes, most amusing headlines and most interesting predictions about graphic design that we've published over the years.

Great Design: Innovative Annual Report
Sagmeister Inc.'s illuminating annual-report design for a lighting-systems manufacturer helps brighten up the 12th annual HOW International Design Competition. Read about it here.
Rising Stars
Design with the Earth in Mind
Being an environmentally conscious designer means more than just choosing recycled paper for your projects. Our production expert helps you make earth-friendly choices at every point in the production process.
Paper Market
Graphic designers are seizing on the DIY trend and creating their own lines of paper products. In a companion piece to HOW's August 2008 special issue on handmade design, here's a look at 4 designers who've put ink on paper.
Get Inspired with Found Materials
Using found materials can provide great inspiration in your next design project. Here two firms share how they integrate found materials into their brainstorm process and as a way to establish clear criteria with clients.
Behind the Design: Kilo Kai
Behind the Design goes, well, behind the design of a noteworthy project, with scoop from the creative team on how they developed an interesting concept or solved a business challenge. Featured this month: the Kilo Kai brand and packaging.
Behind the Design: Pure & Green
Behind the Design goes, well, behind the design of a noteworthy project, with scoop from the creative team on how they developed an interesting concept or solved a business challenge. Featured this month: Pure & Green packaging for Williams-Sonoma.
Creative Exercise: Let the Details Guide You
This exercise is all about listening to the details and letting them guide your creativity.
How to Commission Photography
Seems like assignment photography is on the rise, as designers seek ways to distinguish their clients, and clients discover that custom imagery is good for their brand.
My Best Work: Gail Anderson
In My Best Work, we ask a noted designer to recall their best, favorite or most successful project. This month, AIGA medalist Gail Anderson shares her best work.
Screen Stars: Aesthetic Apparatus
Michael Byzewski and Dan Ibarra—the duo behind the St. Paul, MN-based Aesthetic Apparatus—have dominated design awards with their poster design and screenprinting. HOW interviewed the two men who rolled up their sleeves, donned ink-stained overalls and made a name for themselves in the world of handprinted poster design.
Stop Motion Wedding Invite
Sure, creatives are famous for their memorable holiday cards or party invitations. But when it comes to creating for their own major life events, expect something truly extraordinary. Check out how one couple made a video invitation produced in stop-motion animation to invite their guests to hear them say “I do.” The groom-to-be patiently photographed each frame of the movie, totaling about 5,500 photos.

Behind the Design: Restaurant Identity
Behind the Design goes, well, behind the scenes of a new and noteworthy design project. This month: a clever and engaging identity for a restaurant chain.
Designing for Letterpress
There's something sexy and mysterious about letterpress printing. One HOW editor taps her love of letterpress to explore the essentials of designing for this distinctive production method.
Designer Wish List: 25 Oh-so-Cool Gifts and Gadgets
Check out these gifts and goodies for designers this holiday season.

Overcoming Creative Roadblocks as a Designer
As a designer, when you're faced with a creative roadblock, put yourself in the shoes of the roadblock perpetrator. Diagnosing what drives their attitude and adapting your language to their perspective will help you go further than trying to spin your creation in different directions.
Free Downloads for Designers from Von Glitschka
Designer Von Glitschka was featured in the August 2008 issue of  HOW and was a speaker at this year's HOW Design Conference. Here, he provides free worksheets and guides for you to download that will help you approach your design projects.
My Best Work: Ann Willougby
HOW's June 2008 issue marked the debut of a new column called My Best Work. We've asked designers of note to tell us about their favorite, most successful, most memorable or otherwise top-of-the-heap project. Ann Willoughby was the first to take the stage.
A Simple Concept
With many print designers flocking to the web, getting your initial concept right may not be as simple as you think.
Inspiration on a Dime

When the going gets tough, does creativity suffer? Plus, check out these 5 tips to promote creativity at your job when budgets are lean.
My Best Work: Roger Black
Designer Roger Black shares his memorable experience with MIT (one of the smartest clients), and tells why he chose to talk about his work on their website in "My Best Work."

The Ancient Art of Kimono Making
Japanese Master Itchiku Kubota, who painstakingly created 7-by-5-foot kimonos, won international acclaim for his creativity and dedication to his craft. Now, read a basic breakdown of how he did it.
Make Your Creativity More Productive Around the Office
How often do you get a great idea and let it fall by the wayside? Is there a way to get more out of your creativity and make it more productive?  Here's a sneak peek into how one team has switched they way they do things around the office to do just that. Learn from them, and watch your creativity flourish.
Design Around the World: Singapore
Ever wonder what it's like to be a designer on the other side of the globe?  Here we interview a designer in Sinapore who tells about design on this small Southeast Asian island.
Packaging Design 101
Boxes and bottles and bags, oh my! Never designed a package before? Relax. We've got lots of information about working in this design discipline.

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