S2E11: Thoughts On Design & Idea Generation - Creating Your Pottery

How do you generate ideas while creating art? In this episode, you help me kiln sit as I fire an updraft and chat about design. I discuss some ways ideas for work might happen and the sources we might draw from to generate elements in our art. A list of good books mentioned are in the show notes. 

“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Books by Joseph Campbell:

The Power of Myth
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Historical Atlas of World Mythology 

Stephen Press Field:

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Seth Godin:
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

Carl Jung:
Man and His Symbols.