The birth of the fire is the death of the log. The planting of crops marks the end of the meadow. The invention of the automobile marked the decline of the horse-drawn carriage. Creativity and innovation not only brings new products, services, and methodologies into the world, it also ushers out the old and outdated, […]
Creativity in the Bathroom? Steve Jobs’ Vision for Pixar
I just heard a fascinating interview on NPR with Jonah Lehrer promoting his new book on creativity, Imagine: How Creativity Works. In this interview with NPR, he tells the story of Steve Jobs’ desire to create creative cross-pollination among a diverse campus of creatives at their one an only common facility: the bathrooms. Check it […]
Creativity and the Three Stages of Conscious Design Build, Part I: Unconsciousness
First off, I would like to thank the profound work of David Deida, and my partner at Conscious Design Build, Hristiyan Atanasov, for inspiring this three part series. The built landscape all around us has come into being through the power of human beings’ most defining aspect: conscious self-awareness, the awareness of being aware that […]
Intro to the 5 Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space
Dear Friends, For those of you who don’t know me very well, I co-host a monthly conversation on the intersection between the built landscape and consciousness with a contractor friend of mine from Bulgaria, an amazing, heartfelt contractor named Hristiyan Atanasov. We call our events, Conscious Design Build: A Holistic Path to Better Living. Every […]
The Flourishing Creativity and Design of IDEO
This video, the first of a three part series that was first aired in 1999, ABC News spent some time with Palo Alto, California based IDEO, whose innovative approach to design and creativity lead them to be one of the top international product designers in all the world. In a five day challenge, ABC asks […]
Create to Honor Impermanence
Some time ago, I was designing a gabled roof to cover a client’s porch. I was stumped trying to solve a detail involving the intersection of a vertical post, a horizontal beam, and a frame for a bug screen. I remembered a solution I liked from a project I’d worked on a few years earlier […]
The Heart of Creative Design: On Natural Light
Nourishing, life-giving, ever-changing light, rising and setting, arching across the sky, silvering the waxen edges of the leaves of the oak tree, flashing up the spine of a single blade of grass, its resplendent presence on the sill of a window, its ability to penetrate a room like a sharp object or to diffuse through […]
Video: Deluxe Beachfront Yoga Retreat Center in Baja, Mexico, Creativity Expert and Architectural Designer, Austin Hill Shaw
Austin Hill Shaw is a creativity expert, author, writer, architectural designer, and mapmaker of creativity across art, science, and religion. He specializes in helping others tap into and utilize the creative life force in everything they do. He can be reached at [email protected].
Video: Preview of Prana del Mar – Yoga Retreat & Wellness Center
Austin Hill Shaw is a creativity expert, author, writer, architectural designer, and mapmaker of creativity across art, science, and religion. He specializes in helping others tap into and utilize the creative life force in everything they do. He can be reached at [email protected].