Bio
David Kelley
David Kelley is founder and chairman of IDEO, a design- and innovation-consulting firm with locations in California, Europe, and Asia. He is the Donald W. Whittier professor in the product design program at Stanford University. In 2004, Kelley led the establishment of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the "d.school." Kelley is recognized as one of America's leading design innovators and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Additionally, he has received many awards including the Edison Achievement Award for Innovation, the Chrysler Design Award, the National Design Award in Product Design from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Sir Misha Black Medal for his "distinguished contribution to design education."
Linda Tischler
Linda Tischler is a senior editor at Fast Company, where she writes about the intersection of business and design. For the past several years, she has been responsible for the magazine's Masters of Design issue, which celebrates people in the forefront of design thinking. She also oversees design coverage and blogs on CoDesign, where she launched the site's team of expert design bloggers. The site won a 2011 National Magazine Award for best specialty magazine site. Prior to joining Fast Company, Tischler was an editor at Boston Magazine, where she initiated the New England Design Awards and launched the magazine's special Boston Home section. In 2006, Tischler won the Society of Professional Journalists top award for feature writing, and she was a finalist for the 2007 Mirror Awards for best single story. She has written for numerous publications.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- creativity
Ability to produce something new through imaginative skill, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form. The term generally refers to a richness of ideas and originality of thinking. Psychological studies of highly creative people have shown that many have a strong interest in apparent disorder, contradiction, and imbalance, which seem to be perceived as challenges. Such individuals may possess an exceptionally deep, broad, and flexible awareness of themselves. Studies also show that intelligence has little correlation with creativity; thus, a highly intelligent person may not be very creative. See also genius; gifted child.
- creativity on britannica.com
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