Judson Beaumont - Straight Line Designs Creativity and Shock

How do you define creativity and apply it in your career?

- Creativity is being curious. I am always curious and always asking questions. Many of my pieces begin with me asking the question of “what if?” Always trying to push the limits and see how far we can take an idea.

Where do you find your best creative inspiration?

- Everywhere! I draw creativity from everything, and try to always look at things differently. If I have to round it off to one, I really enjoy architecture. The more traveling that I do, the more I find that I am inspired by different forms of architecture. I am inspired by types, from grain elevators in Saskatoon to the Guggenheim in Bilbao.

What’s the one creative advice or tip you wish you’d known as a young person?

- Growing up my older brother was always a talented woodworker and knew how to build things “the right way”. When I was younger I would try to build things “the right way” but they wouldn’t turn out right. I wish that I would have known that it’s okay to do things a different way, and to be different from other people. Maybe then I would have tried doing my own thing and had more fun with it.

Who would you like to hear speak at Creative Mornings?

- Nico Spacecraft, they do some really innovative work.

- I will I push that idea away for the moment and take out another piece of paper and then work on something that is completely different. I always like to have lots of different projects going on rather than focusing on one thing at a time.

- I like to get up very early and go for a run. After that, I head straight to the shop, I like to be the first one in my studio because it lets me prepare for the day and makes me feel like I am getting a head start on everyone.