This week on Creative Types with Virginia Trioli is Nazeem Hussain. Comedian Nazeem Hussain’s Muslim and Sri Lankan heritage is central to his comedy, so he invites Virginia to share a Sri Lankan ...

Imagine trying to draw your face with your non-dominant hand. How would it come out? Probably pretty terribly, right? You can’t expect symmetrical eyes or a recognizable nose when you’re going against ...

The other day, I was watching a furniture-making video that was thematically centered around creativity, specifically upon the distinction between creative and uncreative ‘types.’ In the video, the ...

Hey, readers! This is James Hercher, AdExchanger senior editor, here with our weekly Commerce Media newsletter. Today, we’re getting into the art side of art and science, with a look at Motion, a ...

Gina sat down to write her book on the ethnography framework she developed from 20 years of research and teaching … and nothing came to her. She stared at the cursor blinking on the screen and lifted ...

When a writer writes a short story about a writer, there’s always a temptation to read it as autobiographical. But when a writer writes an entire book of such stories, which is what Tom Bissell has ...

Studies show that creativity comes from the brain's right hemisphere, which is where the idea that there are "right-brain thinkers" and "left-brain thinkers" comes from. (Those left-brain thinkers ...