Creative Process

Life – Watch, feel, understand, connect, listen and get serious
Essence – Observe, feel, and get inspired
Abstract – Convert, capture the essential, eliminate unwanted
Express – with precision, enjoy the new language, add
Solve – with passion; see the problem as challenge, use wit
Know – your constraints
Finish – with patience, with clarity, with satisfaction, with enthusiasm, check for new beauty
Present – Silently
Learn

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Irfan said…
Hmmm...very very abstract and yet very very clear! :-)

The logical progression of the heads and sub-heads is simply stunning...it is almost as if a beautiful matrix has been designed.

The ending is the most encouraging...
July 3, 2007 at 7:14:00 AM PDT
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