How Ideas Are Born - Artists on Creative Processes

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

ARTISTS INCLUDED: ARGENTINA: Claudio Pedraza. BELGIUM: Ingrid Godon. CHILE: José 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 Jordán, Gimena Romero. PORTUGAL: Mariana Malhão. SAUDI ARABIA: David Shillinglaw. SPAIN: Karto Gimeno, Javier Pagola, Oscar Sanmartín. SWIZERLAND: Johanna Schaible. UK: Nicholas Stevenson, Sophie Woodrow. USA: Michael McGrath (Rhinbeck, NY). VENEZUELA: Cristina Sitja.

Miguel
Ángel Pérez 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, motivación y juego (Creativity: curiosity,
motivation and play) in the series ＂[Re]thinking education＂ published by
Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. He participated in different
illustration exhibitions in New York, Washington, Mexico, Buenos Aires, São
Paulo, Madrid and Lisbon) and at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. A finalist in the
Daniel Gil Awards (Spain) and the Biennial of Illustration of Amarante (Por
tugal), he has had numerous individual and collective painting, photography and
illustration exhibitions. He is a lecturer in the Marketing Department of the
University of Zaragoza (Spain).