Psychology of Creativity
Reflective Journal Psychology of Creativity
Name: Ian Tan Yi Wei Admin number: 0901383J Course: Diploma in Moving Images
What is Creativity?
When I first came into the School of Design in Temasek Polytechnic, I always thought Designing was always part of drawing, or visually tell what you are thinking and I had thought that the school would teach me these things, but as I went through my first semester, as a Year One student, I start to ask myself: What is Creativity to me, as a designer? As I did my drawing essentials class, my lecturer would always say, think out of the box, be creative in whatever you draw. Even in my 2D Art fundamentals the lecturer always said to be creative with your colours, play and experiment with it. I’ve came across the word creativity during my secondary school days, but I did not really pay attention to it because I thought I did not need to know it. During my secondary school days, I learnt in English class, Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fuelled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. This is the theoretical definition, or from what I’ve learnt in this class, Creativity is ‘thinking outside the box’. So thinking out of the box is creativity? No. That was not what I thought. There is something more than just thinking beyond my limits...Hence, my definition of Creativity. My definition of creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. It may not be easy creating something which is absurd or crazy to life, but as a Student of Design school, Creativity is an extremely important aspect of being a design student. It is because, without creativity, I would just be thinking of ordinary things, which are bland, plain and somewhat non-pleasing to the eye. The act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality, is to visually communicate to others what my idea or
Name: Ian Tan Yi Wei Admin number: 0901383J Course: Diploma in Moving Images
What is Creativity?
When I first came into the School of Design in Temasek Polytechnic, I always thought Designing was always part of drawing, or visually tell what you are thinking and I had thought that the school would teach me these things, but as I went through my first semester, as a Year One student, I start to ask myself: What is Creativity to me, as a designer? As I did my drawing essentials class, my lecturer would always say, think out of the box, be creative in whatever you draw. Even in my 2D Art fundamentals the lecturer always said to be creative with your colours, play and experiment with it. I’ve came across the word creativity during my secondary school days, but I did not really pay attention to it because I thought I did not need to know it. During my secondary school days, I learnt in English class, Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fuelled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. This is the theoretical definition, or from what I’ve learnt in this class, Creativity is ‘thinking outside the box’. So thinking out of the box is creativity? No. That was not what I thought. There is something more than just thinking beyond my limits...Hence, my definition of Creativity. My definition of creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. It may not be easy creating something which is absurd or crazy to life, but as a Student of Design school, Creativity is an extremely important aspect of being a design student. It is because, without creativity, I would just be thinking of ordinary things, which are bland, plain and somewhat non-pleasing to the eye. The act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality, is to visually communicate to others what my idea or