How, the magazine for designers, asked several of them how they break out of creative ruts. Aya Kakeda, who is a free-lancer based in New York, said:
"I put as much creative and non-creative information in my brain as possible (music, film, books, recipes, travel pictures, who ordered what kind of sandwiches, etc.) and go to sleep.
I mean really, really long and good sleep. Get my brain to sort up things on its own, making weird connections to random info, copying and pasting the stuff I absorbed. And when I wake up, I'm out of the rut."
More tips on this soon.
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