Design: make or break

This week we had to do a briefing article on a topic of our choice. Professor Middleton asked that we do it in a magazine layout. As I searched the web for magazine template layouts, I was amazed at the creativity and design of some of the magazine I saw on blogs and design websites. Steve Jobs said that "creativity is just connecting things." Seeing things in a new light, a simpler light. As I sat trying to design my magazine article I thought of how I am seriously  lacking in "right brain" thinking or creative thinking. Howard Gardener, a psychologist proposed a theory of multiple intelligences. He thought that humans engage in both right brain and left brain activity, and the more intelligences we use out of the seven he proposed, the better we are able to learn and grow. The seven intelligences are:
- lingusitic
-logical-mathematical
- musical
- bodily-kinesthetic
- spatial 
- interpersonal
- intrapersonal

So what? My goal once the semester is over is to engage in more right brain activities. At the top of my list are learn the piano, learn Adobe Suite, and learn how to edit videos. 

Let's get creative and get out of the mold of the classic university academic standards of how things should be done.