How Ideas are Born

Artists on Creative Processes

Angel Perez Arteaga Miguel

This book should serve as a source of inspiration to helpcreative people overcome the obstacles that can appear during the productionprocess. Featuring 25 genre-defyingartists working outside the mainstream, it takes readers inside their workspaces and challenges them to focus on details that help reveal some of the secretsof their creative activity. In addition to the many images of their work, theartists, in their own words, shed light on the creative processes that madethem possible. They explain why they create, what they are trying to say and howthey look to literature, sculpture, music, theater or scenes from everyday lifeto overcome creative blocks and self-doubt and stay inspired and productive. Throughtheir words and work, the contemporary painters, sculptors, photographers,tattooists, graffiti artists and muralists that appear in this insightful andvisually sumptuous book transmit the emotion, energy, individuality and ironythat defines their artistic production and the creative processes behind it.

ARTISTS INCLUDED:
ARGENTINA: Claudio Pedraza
BELGIUM: Ingrid Godon
CHILE: Jose Romussi
FRANCE: Alexandra Duprez, Eltono, Soeurs Siamoises
GERMANY: Hermann Josef Hack, z-e-b-u.
IRAN: Mohammad Barrangi
ITALY: Gaia Bernasconi, Luca Giovagnoli
JAPAN: Sanae Sugimoto, Mogu Takahashi
MEXICO: Federico Jordan, Gimena Romero
PORTUGAL: Mariana Malhao
SAUDI ARABIA: David Shillinglaw
SPAIN: Karto Gimeno, Javier Pagola, Oscar Sanmartin
SWIZERLAND: Johanna Schaible
UK: Nicholas Stevenson, Sophie Woodrow
USA: Michael McGrath (Rhinbeck, NY)
VENEZUELA: Cristina Sitja

About the author

Miguel Angel Perez Arteaga is a graphic design and communication expert and co-founder of the design studio Batidora de Ideas. Author and illustrator of twelve children's books published in Spain, Mexico and Brazil, he is also the author of the book "Creatividad: curiosidad, motivacion y juego" ("Creativity: Curiosity, Motivation and Play") in the series "[Re]thinking education" published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. He participated in the exhibitions "Ready to Read: Book design from Spain, a selection of the best books published in Spain" (New York, Washington, Mexico, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Madrid and Lisbon) and "Ilustrisimos: An overview of children and young adults' illustration in Spain" at the Bologna Book Fair. A finalist in the Daniel Gil Awards (Spain) and the Biennial of Illustration of Amarante (Portugal), he has had numerous individual and collective painting, photography and illustration exhibitions. Miguel Angel Perez Arteaga is a lecturer in the Marketing Department of the University of Zaragoza (Spain).