Post-It Notes as Creative Release
July 28, 2009
More often than not, the daily grind of office life leads us as creative types – not just here at HenkinSchultz but everywhere – to go off-grid. We naturally seek an outlet for our stray thoughts. Some of us blog, while others dabble in parody or some other kind of non-productive-yet-still-incredibly-important release.
It’s from this off-grid thinking that Tammy, one of our longest tenured designers, developed an inspired art series using the most pedestrian of canvases.
Post-It Note art.
Every weekday morning, Tammy doodles on a Post-It Note and displays it on a smiley-faced stress ball, which sits propped on the cubicle wall separating her and close friend (and similarly long tenured designer) Lynell.
Seriously. Every. Single. Morning.
It didn’t begin as anything so lofty, to be honest. It began as a little “Happy Birthday” message to Lynell. Which became, “Happy Day After Birthday.” Then, “Happy 2 Days After Birthday.”
As the days progressed the message became more and more interesting, until the birthday wasn’t even the main focus anymore. It’s currently 25 days before Lynell’s birthday. But equally important: It’s National Hamburger Day.
Just as equally important: Tammy’s making sure every day comes with a little creative release.
So, what do you do to keep things interesting?
(You can see a bi-weekly sample of Tammy’s Post-It Note Art on our Flickr page, or as part of HenkinSchultz’s bi-weekly e-Newsletter.)
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About HenkinSchultz
HenkinSchultz is an agency. An advertising and marketing and branding and design and production agency. All of those things, and then some.
But, underneath all that, we're really a bunch of thinkers. As in, we think about stuff, both pertinent and not, with and without boundaries, as if our lives depended on it. And this right here, Post Haste, is where we write about it.
Visit us at http://www.henkinschultz.com.
I was going to start doing Post-It Note Sketches on my blog several months ago. I did one post: http://hollirausch.com/archives/651
And then I felt guilty using tax-payered post-its for this purpose. So I stopped. Politics. Maybe I should buy my own solely for this purpose. Maybe I will. Thanks, Tammy, for re-inspiring me.
Thankfully, they’re inexpensive. I’d do something with Post-Its, but no one wants to read a 300-word essay on parenthood or social marketing when the words are so small.