Creative battles

by John Ingledew

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In Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, “He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel.”

The spirit of creative battles are lost to the side of the safe and the dull we shouldn’t forget the power of creative ideas to drive the world forward.

Artists and designers in partnership with visionary clients improve and enrich our lives.
Can you teach people to have great ideas? You can create a situation of possibility, opportunity and challenge.

Experimentation and innovation come from these environments where daring dreaming is encouraged and wild ideas can be expressed with confidence. It is the job of Art School to create this environment, coupled with teaching about great innovators of the past.
Buckminster Fuller, a design hero to both art students and military wrote: “You have about ten minutes to act an idea before it receeds back into dreamland”.

Act before those ten minutes elapse – just think it up, then do it!


Senior Lecturer in Design, St Martins College of Art - London.


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