Creativity Links
CBIR Search Page: You can search a large database of sources on creativity - journal articles, books, Internet sites -- all with short comments. Located at The Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State College.
Creativity Web - Resources for Creativity and Innovation: A general index of links to further sites having to do with creativity. Resources for Creativity & Innovation: Humor, Drawing, Visual Thinking and various other activities to test/enhance creativity.
Creativity in Science and Engineering: Creativity occurs in all areas of human endeavor. Some of the greatest examples of the 19th and 20th centuries are in scientific discoveries.
Creativity in Business: Describes historical examples of creativity which led to inventions, creations, or innovation.
The Invention Dimension! A web site created by MIT Press to support inventions, inventors, and display MIT books. There are a couple neat games to test your knowledge of innovation. There is also some very useful information in case you decide to invent something.
Directed Creativity Heuristics: Practical tips to improve creative thinking.
Creativity Basics: Definitions of creativity and ways to recognize and harness personal creativity.
On Creativity: Collection of pages on varied aspects of creativity and the creative process. Includes a number of definitions, levels of creativity, characteristics of highly creative individuals, brainstorming techniques, creativity studies, etc.
Brainstorming: Brainstorming tips & definitions, creativity puzzles & quotes, and many useful links to other creativity-related websites.
Mental Athletics: Lots of creative activities, including creative tactics, mental hurdles, personal creativity assessment, and the creativity gym. Also features an introduction to creativity, information about creativity and the brain, and quotes.
Ed's Puzzles, Brain Teasers, and Logic Problems: Lots of brain teasers including "The Five Pens", "The Man in the Portrait", "A MasterMind Puzzle", and links to other puzzle pages.
The Lateral Puzzles Forum: Features lots of lateral thinking problems that can only be solved creatively.
Kohler's Logic Problems: Some are common sense, some make you think sideways, most make you think. About seventy different problems are given.
Mathematical Puzzles For Fun and Enlightenment For those of you who like word problems, these are a nice start.
Psychology of Creativity: Definitions by theorists and students, online student projects, and links to other sites.
Creativity Challenge: Includes 30 brain-teaser problems that require creative thinking to solve.
Creativity: Enchanted Mind: Features tons of information about the scientific study of creativity, also creative-thinking puzzles, techniques to improve creativity, humor, and more.
Creativity/Problem Solving/Critical Thinking: Good resource for educators, features a number of lesson plans and activities to teach creativity.
PBS TeacherSource: Creativity and the Brain: Good summary of what science has discovered about the human brain and creativity.
Creativity Resources: Links to websites to increase creativity and innovation in writing, on the job, personal life, in school, and in the arts.
Techniques for Creative Thinking: Detailed descriptions and examples of a number of techniques including brainstorming, lateral thinking, mindmapping, checklists, problem reversal, metaphorical thinking, assumption smashing, and many more.
Creative Thinking & Lateral Thinking Techniques: Techniques include random word, random picture, false rules, role-play, challenge facts, escape, analogies and wishful thinking.
Chinese Laws of Creativity: "The basic component of the I Ching is a three lined symbol called the Trigram." This author relates the trigrams to creativity and gives you a nice introduction to the concepts in the I Ching.
Psychology of Creativity: Features an introduction to creative thinking, a creativity quiz and test, java games, humor, quotes, and lots of useful links.
Creativity Definitions: Definitions of creativity with some useful links.
The Science of Creativity: Tips for better creativity, word game and "fresh eyes" activity.
Creativity for Life: A guide to living your life creatively every day. Includes articles, tips and resources. Also features many creativity-related links.
Marilyn Shea and Shawn Smith were happy to browse for you...
Last Update: February 2002
mshea@maine.edu