We prepare our bodies for physical activity, but what do we do for our minds? Throughout our day, we are asked to be creative, to invent ideas, to create. If ideas are the currency of the creative industry, what do we do to prepare our brains for idea generation? How do we train ourselves to come up with more ideas, and better yet, greater ideas? We stretch, of course!

“Caffeine for the Creative Mind” is a collection of short, focused creative exercises that get the brain working along a path that is more in tune to creative invention. The book contains over 250 “creative stretching" exercises. The exercises are brief, fun and are meant to invoke creative, thought-provoking responses. Get your brain moving by engaging in an exercise right at the start of your day or stop and do one whenever you need a creative jolt. The exercises are simple and conceptual, some with pad and pencil, some with digital camera, markers, words, phrases, icons, pictures, magazine cutouts… anything that might stimulate the brain into thinking alternatively...coming up with solutions that challenge you to alter your perspective and see your environment differently.

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The 2006 HOW Design Conference has come and gone and our workshop went off like gangbusters! 500 creatives in a room, making carnival rides for bugs, designing their ultimate desks and getting a shot of creative caffeine! If you attended, check out the gallery to see if we captured you or your bug ride!
The CftCM team was recently featured in the June/July issue of Dynamic Graphics magazine! Pick up a copy and read Alissa Walker's great article on revamping the creative process.
Pick up the June issue of HOW Magazine and find our article "Caffeinated Concepts", complete with a handful of exercises to tide you over!
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