Keri Smith's Ideas

Typography II, Journal: May 4

Keri Smith, a successful illustrator who works for such clients as Forbes, People, The New York Times, and Random House, has a bunch of fun—and sometimes quite useful—kits and ideas on her website. When I say useful, I'm talking about some of her ideas for self motivation or what could be thought of as creativity pick-me-ups. Often, when working in a creative field, one hits a wall—or simply runs out of steam—and the joy of creating disappears. Everything you do seems like a failure, and you can't seem to come up with any ideas. We've all been there.

Keri's list of "100 Ideas (a work in progress)" contains 95 activities to stimulate you creatively (the last 5 are blank so that you can fill them in with your own ideas). There is no explanation and there are no instructions aside from "pick randomly." My interpretation is that these are things you should do regularly (ie. one a day) in order to keep your mind fresh.