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Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Novelty
It is something to do with the word new. There are many things that can be define as new when it is being created, designed, invented, expressed, and it is not taken from original idea. For example, when a game is being played like chess. Most of the game is recorded from all experts in all competition levels. If there is a new player which plays the game different from the recorded game play, this is called novelty because it is something new that none had played this style of strategy. Novelty does not include copying other peoples work. Novelty can be expressed but it is judge from one person act. For example, if someone had disassemble a furniture and make it to a sculpture, the work would be novelty. While if a high school student disassemble a furniture for he's art work, it wont be judged as novelty instead it will be judged as vandalism. All this act of novelty is being judged from all expects from all persons view.


Innovation
Innovation is also something new like novelty but it is being improved, enhanced, processed into something new and better. For example, telephone is invented by Antonio Meucci in the 1860's. It is been innovate till these days that we have hand phone. This is called innovative because it is been improvised base from the original idea (telephone) to (hand phone) base of the technology. Innovation is also meant to make peoples life easier by troubleshooting the problems that have in certain product or invention to a new product or invention which provides more efficiently.


Invention
Invention is something to deal with new things. It can be a form of machine or devices which it's purpose if to help and enlighten the amount of work for a person. There are many inventor till these days and they had bring a better life for us in this new era. Some of the inventions are based on pre-existing ideas and most of them are breakthroughs that is beyond of human knowledge or experience. It is not easy to invent something new while we do not have such knowledge to learn from. It might sound crazy at first for an idea that does not make sense at all but after it is invented it might be judge differently and think it is a marvelous invention. It is not an easy task to be done because most of the ideas would be a fail and it needs tons of ideas just to successfully invent a new thing.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Creativity

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts, creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is simply the act of making something new.

(quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity)

Creativity in my point of view is something to relate with different or new ideas. As i understand, we can think of so many things which almost feel not logic at all in creative ideas. Some of the ideas can be logic in a way that people could understand the concept of the idea. Creativity could be also abstract as we can create so many impossible thoughts for an idea. Base from those ideas, we came out with concepts that support the idea.

There are some examples of how creative ideas could be in a logical way and illogical.


Iogical ideas

Leonardo da Vinci is an excellent example for logical ideas. he is born in 15 April 1452 in Italy. He is a great artist and inventor because of his many and diverse fields of arts and sciences. He contributed lots of ideas where is logical base from science and all his inventions are legend for a person back during high renaissance era.

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Illogical ideas

M.C.Esher is born in 17 June 1898 in Netherlands. He is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. He is famous for his so-called impossible structures as his idea is mostly impossible to build in real world. He plays with most of the optical illusions to come out with his idea.

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From all there understandings, creativity is an essential needs for all people regardless for design field or engineering field. The ideas that have created and improved up to now makes our life much better and easier.