Coloring, sketching, and doodling can help with stress relief by inducing a state of calm. The iOS App Store is filled with excellent drawing apps. Here are five of my favorites for unleashing ...

A randomized experiment by UC Santa Barbara researchers shows that even a few minutes of viewing artistic film can expand our thinking and trigger creative ideas.

There tend to be strong reactions to AI-generated art, often forming pro- and anti-AI camps based on how AI is understood and who the AI directly impacts. But the reality of how AI intersects with ...

Design and create by yourself, or with the help of AI ...

Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some ...

Illustrator and Author Mike Lowery, in collaboration with the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art and Design, ...

We assume creativity is valuable, but it is worth examining what exact advantages it provides. Some benefits of creativity are obvious, especially in the case of what scientists call Big-C ...

New research confirms it: the creativity of artificial intelligence (AI) is a myth. Although current generative AI models may appear to be autonomous creative agents, analyzing their imaginative ...

I recently finished reading an interesting book by Rick Rubin, The Creative Art: A Way of Being. (I was not paid and never met the author.) One of the clear messages of this book is that creativity ...

We’ve all heard of tablets you can draw on — looking at you, iPad lineup — but how about a 24-inch drawing display? Xencelabs Technologies unveiled its new Pen Display 24 Studio Series at the Game ...

E ncoded in the word “creative” is a long history of secularization. The power of creation (from the Latin creare: to make, beget, or cause) was once reserved for the gods. Later, it was claimed by ...