Some lessons paraphrased from this delightful short documentary (Italics are my own interpretations)
- Symbiotic multi-faceted creatives (less ‘T’ shaped and more ‘O’ shaped)
- The importance of environment (context is everything)
- They drew on their own life experiences (the best usecase is personal)
- Invented their own processes – (when X doesn’t exist – make X up; which is how they developed the iconic Eames chair)
- Eventually everything connects (there are no ‘disciplines’, just avenues of focus that eventually converge)
- Creative minds fed by the execution of ideas, failure and reiteration (hey! That’s the design sprint right there!)
- They spent each day expanding their minds beyond their physical encounters in order to facility imagination and creation (feed the beast that is your imagination >> read widely and weirdly)
- Each time they failed they learned and invaluable lesson that would adjust the course fo their design (see above design sprint) The creative process was one of ebb and flow…
- The older they got the more they played (well that just sounds like a sensible idea) and they were damn good at it
- They expressed their brilliance by having unadulterated fun (see above sensible idea)
- The two gods of architecture, design and creativity weren’t even qualified to do any of it themselves (career strategy: once i is possible to do a degree in something – its time to find a new something)