creative tasks

It can be small, it can be big; size doesn’t matter. You can paint, you can stitch, you can build; how you do this makeover is totaly up to you. Just grab something in you home and change it!

Use quotes or clippings from a newspaper in a creative project. The medium is up to you.

Thank you all so much for your patience. While this blog has been inactive I’ve done quite a lot of thinking about the best way to go about presenting the tasks and the task solutions. What I’ve come up with is quite different from my original ideas, but I won’t bore you with the details of my original plans for the blog.

So here’s the idea: The actual blog posts on this blog will be the tasks - i. e. assignments to inspire your creativity. They can be vague or specific. For instance “Make a handbag”, “Take a photo each day of the upcoming week, presenting in each photo a number” or “write a poem with a dog, a potted plant and a cigar in it”. As you can see the tasks will be in many different creative areas, some of them allowing you to choose your medium.

When you’ve come up with your solution to a task, you present it on your own blog. When doing so you trackback to the post on this blog where the task is presented. That way there will be a list of links to different task solutions beneath each task.

If you don’t have a blog you can post a comment to the blog post with your solution. However, in order to show us your work you need to put your photos online through some other service, for instance Flickr.

You won’t need to become a registered member to trackback or to post comments, but if you want to contribute with tasks of your own, and/or want to appear with a link to your blog on our site, please register.

I’ve added a link with some more instructions to the right. If you need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to email us.

Welcome to the creative tasks blog. In september 2002 Sofie Jansson and I created the Creative Tasks project as a website where we could challenge eachother - and others who wanted to join - with completing different tasks. Each month all participants came up with a task each, and the following month we all posted our work on the site. It was great fun to see the others’ solutions to the tasks and to compare it with your own.

The projects ranged from “write down your dreams and illustrate atleast one of them” to “make a bag”, on to “present a pear in five different ways” and “take a photo of yourself in such a way that your near and dear ones wouldn’t recognize you”. Some of the resulting photos and items you can see at the very top of this blog.

However, the project took a lot of time, and after some months we noticed it was hard to do all the tasks within the time limit of one month. We took a break and tried anew the year after, did a few tasks and then tried once again in 2004.

This time we want to make the project live longer. We are both still very excited about the idea. Using the blog format we think and hope we can make it last, and it will also be easier for others to join.

Check back soon for more details on how the project will work.