Check out the Souvenir Project over on Flickr. Really cool idea and the photographer does a great job of pulling it off.

Being a “nine to fiver” in an industry that isn’t even slightly creative can sometimes suck the creativity right out of me. My side-job is my real passion. Design. So after a long week of drab, “vanilla”, cubicle slavery, I was looking for some tips to give my creativity a jump start. I came across a blog post by Aral Balkan. He listed some simple, yet excellent tips for creative thinking that he found in a design book recently.

• Don’t believe your own hype.
• Have a goal (or many).
• Try some things with no end result.