{"id":3369,"date":"2010-06-07T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2010-06-07T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:00:28","slug":"playing-with-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/playing-with-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/matches.jpg?w=422\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3407\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/07\/playing-with-matches\/matches-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3407\" title=\"Matches\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/matches1.jpg?w=422\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the HOW Design Conference sessions I thoroughly enjoyed this year was Von Glitschka&#8217;s <a title=\"Creating 5ive Alarm Concepts\" href=\"http:\/\/artbackwash.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/creating-5ive-alarm-concepts.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Creating 5ive Alarm Concepts&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong> In it, he describes the process of purposely living our everyday lives as a way to collect experiences and moments of inspiration. These experiences become conceptual triggers that we store away in our brains and at the right moment can be ignited like matches. A lot of times we as designers tend to look in familiar areas for these &#8216;matches&#8217; when we should be hunting outside our own industry. How? According to Von, through reading, travel, culture and people. If you&#8217;re hitting that wall and feel like you&#8217;re creatively flat-lining, I&#8217;d highly recommend checking out this session, which he so kindly provides on his blog Art Backwash. Thanks, Von!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the HOW Design Conference sessions I thoroughly enjoyed this year was Von Glitschka&#8217;s &#8220;Creating 5ive Alarm Concepts&#8221;. In it, he describes the process of purposely living our everyday lives as a way to collect experiences and moments of inspiration. These experiences become conceptual triggers that we store away in our brains and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-Sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}