As newly elected CEO of the IID (The African Institute of the Interior Design Professions), it is a privilege to share some ideas about creativity with fellow designers and readers. I am passionate about the impact of creativity on design and the importance of design in our everyday lives.
DESIGN IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Throughout the ages, people have wanted to create unique, personalised, inspirational, self-nurturing and rejuvenating spaces that invoke joy, counterbalance hectic lives, and encourage mindful living.
Being immersed in a creative task positively influences us, providing a sense of achievement, accomplishment, and psychological wellbeing.
Creativity lies within each person, paradoxical, constructive, courageous and perceptive; it can be inspired or suppressed. It is childlike, individual and universal, intellectual as well as artful, born of inspiration and made with…