In which Tobin talks about mechanical art and what makes for a great toy, and shares ruminations from a Muppet colloquium. Welcome to the second part of this interview with toy inventor/Director of Exhibit Development Adam Tobin. If you haven’t…
Category: Conversations about Creativity
An Interview with the Exploratorium’s Adam Tobin, Part One
In which Tobin talks about growing up as a child-inventor, the Exploratorium workflow, and the challenges of summoning an “ah-ha!” moment on a deadline. Bio: Adam Tobin is the Director of Exhibit Development at San Francisco’s famed Exploratorium. Before that…
An Interview with Dana Reinhardt
Photo credit: Chelsea Hadley. In which Reinhardt talks about why she rarely uses her notebook, how her first book may have been the easiest to write, and getting a sixteen-year-old to translate into IM. Dana Reinhardt is the author of…
Jesse Thorn, on backing yourself into a wall
I posted an interview this evening over on the O’Reilly digital media site with Jesse Thorn, the host of “The Sound of Young America” (an excellent radio show that’s distributed by Public Radio International.) Thorn’s launching an intimate convention/vacation/education/entertainment extravaganza…
toonlet talk
So-called Bill and I have recently started posting about digital creativity over at digitalmedia under The Creative Beat. This subsite is an extension (an outgrowth? a spur?) of the interviews you’ve found over over here, with a little more focus…
x-post: Creativity blogging…at work?
I’ve recently started blogging about things-creativity-and-tech at work. Using my own name even. My other own name. Before too long, there should be an actual brand-new creativity subsite I can link to, but for now, it’s more like a post…
An Interview with Chris Metzen, Part Two
Welcome to the second part of this interview with Blizzard VP of Creative Development Chris Metzen. If you haven’t already read the first part of this interview, be sure to check it out to hear about the power of spinning…
An Interview with Chris Metzen, Part One
Welcome! This interview is part of an ongoing series of chats with artists about their creative process. You can find the full set of interviews, including musicians Adrian Belew and Jonathan Coulton, writer Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), cartoonist Dan…
An Interview with Ianthe Brautigan
Photo credit: Nancy Bellen. Ianthe Brautigan was born in San Francisco at the tail-end of the Beat Era. Her book You Can’t Catch Death: A Daughter’s Memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), recently optioned for a movie, chronicles her life growing…
An Interview with Keri Smith
Photo credit: Jefferson Pitcher. Keri Smith is an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. She is the author and illustrator of several activity books aimed at jump-starting creativity, including Wreck This Journal (2007, Penguin Books), The Guerilla Art Kit (2007, Princeton Architectural…