Archive for July, 2007

Lifehack for the creative: Muse station for brainstorming

I don’t know about you but one of the big frustrations about technology is that nothing equals the organic feel of a pen and paper. Even then US letter size paper is sooooooo restrictive and investing the time to somehow get it into a digital form for archiving, retrieval, reference and sharing just perpetuates the great divide between the organic and creative inspiring analog and the powerful, shareable, flexible and retrievable nature of digital idea capturing.

Enter the idea of a Muse Station™.

Simply it’s the use of:

  • a large drawing tablet (mine is 19”x24”) with
  • a sketching clipboard (Pearl Art & Craft have one for $10 that fits these size tablets that is 23”x26”). I keep the tablet by my bed so I see it when I first get up and its easy enough to use in the car, sitting in the lounge etc.
  • I use the station for capturing and refining ideas and concepts and fleshing them out. The large white space is inspiring and allows continual refinement and development of ideas.

    Here is a picture of a concept outline I started on:

    And another pic with a link to the sketch clipboard at Pearl art and craft.
    http://www.pearlpaint.com/shop_details~ocID~2500~parentID~2500~categoryID~2427~sku~747147.htm
    The next stage of the project is getting this analog concept capturing into digital form which is the next phase of the project… Ill link the next episode to this article for those interested.


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