Managing A Creative Environment

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Being surrounded in a creative work place, with collections of artefacts that reflect on what you’re personally interested in as a designer, will help stimulate and broaden your ideas as a practitioner. As an individual your creativity is influenced by your surroundings and working environment. 

The variety of culture and tradition that you are surrounded by will help you combine different elements from diverse culture to create innovative ideas. As your working environment can have an impact on your design work. I personally think it’s essential to utilise books, objects, and any visual material that you collect. This can potentially stimulate different ideas within the direction your currently working on. Again helping you create memorable unique designs as you explore your ideas in many different ways, such as by letting yourself be influenced by your environment and surroundings.

Building a reservoir of visual materials that you will find stimulating and beneficial, will make you be selective of what you choose. This will make you question and justify what you find intriguing about individual visual pieces. This process of classification will help you understand the elements of design you appreciate and select what you want to take forward with you in your work to inspire your design ideas to progress further. 

When reflecting on all the visual material you collect, it gives you an understanding of your personal interests and by being surrounded with all of the visual material you collate. You can use it as a stimulus to trigger new exciting concepts through a variety of different cultural aspects and your selected visual material that you find influential.