Tag: Commonplace books

  • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

    Combinatorial Creativity explained by Maria Popova. If you have not discovered Brain Pickings – this is your lucky day. May this Daily Find inspire something creative! Love from CW. Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi. You may have heard this anecdote. Picasso is sitting…

  • Commonplace Books as a Source for Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

    Commonplace Books as a Source for Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

    I would love to have a look at Seneca’s commonplace book – imagine that? It is fascinating to think that reading and writing were done hand in hand. My margin notes are justified! May this Daily Find inspire something creative! Love from CW. There is an old saying that the truest form of poverty is…

  • A Commonplace Book

    A Commonplace Book

    An old idea, fully explored and then interpreted in a modern way. But have we lost something by going digital? I wonder. I love the touch of something handmade, even if it is just pages of words. May this Daily Find inspire something creative! Love from CW. Commonplace book is an odd phrase, perhaps, because…

  • Binding Time

    Binding Time

    The binding time course just finished at Maiwa School of Textiles. I know this because I was one of the 14 women attending! It was my first class at Maiwa, but I will be back. Browse through the website to see all the subjects on offer. Not only that, creative supplies can be purchased online,…