Creativity Cookbook is a collection of shared insights and experiences about creative processes and artistic expression. These forces of creativity do not belong to any particular field, they are interdisciplinary and essential part of our humanity. Thanks to them we have the capacity to widen our lives any moment, to enter into the unstoppable flow of seeking and discovering, to resist popular opinions, vulgarity and boredom. Creativity Cookbook is made up by people who ride those waves as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Where does a wish to create come from? What encourages creativity to grow? What tunes people in and moves them? How are projects born and carried out?


La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Thomas Maitz is a designer and founder of Perludi, kids furniture brand. Weaving practices of sustainability, play, and respect into the process of design. Check out his work at www.perludi.com Brought to you by La Foresta - a forest of handmade stories: www.laforesta.co

Thomas Maitz
designer and founder

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Viola Niccolai is an illustrator for children books. Check out her work following this link: http://cargocollective.com/violaniccolai More info: www.laforesta.co/projects

Viola Niccolai
illustrator

From the conversation with the musician from NYC Mazz Swift - about her creative process and the beauty of having many interests. This interview is part of La Foresta PORTRAITS. Portraits are born out of encounters with people, poets of life, dreamers and creators, people who have a light of sincerity and wonder in their eyes. Portraits are about them reflecting and sharing their personal wisdom on subjects connected to their motivation to do what they do, what's important to them, their sources of creativity and inspiration, their environment and surroundings, how they live and how they grow. More info: http://www.laforesta.co

Mazz Swift
musician

Violeta Lopiz
illustrator

Worlds in Transformation is about the initiatives that change our mindset and habits of doing. It's based on meeting the challengers of the status quo, the daring ones that are building and transforming worlds, putting their values before profit and dogmas. Here they talk about their projects. Roxanne de Bastion is an independent singer and songwriter from Berlin based in London. Roxanne has released her debut album “The Real Thing” on her own label, Nomad Songs, and regularly tours across the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. In this interview she talks about making the music industry fairer, how female is not a genre, and about euphoric feelings of sharing music with others. To get to know more of Roxanne's work check out www.roxannedebastion.com More info about the project: www.laforesta.co

Roxanne de Bastion
musician

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Joanna Concejo is an artist and illustrator. Her work is as fascinating and captivating for adults as it is for children. You can get a glimpse into her work at joannaconcejo.blogspot.de La Foresta - a forest of stories, images and encounters: www.laforesta.co

Joanna Concejo
artist and illustrator

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Interdisciplinary artist Eamon O'Kane on the essence of things, chaos, forests, the environment, and other influences and inspirations for his creative process. More info: www.laforesta.co/projects

Eamon O'Kane
interdisciplinary artist

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Ramuntcho Matta is an multidisciplinary artist, musician, and art educator. He is a creator of a cultural space Lizières, located at an old castle outside of Paris. It's a centre for cultures and resources conceived for artistic creation and body/mind practices. More info: www.laforesta.co/projects

Ramuntcho Matta
arts educator

Igor Kazakov
puppet theatre director

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. Brigitte Deval is a puppet maker. She has been creating exquisite dolls, figures and characters for more than 40 years of her artistic career. In this interview Brigitte shares with us some insights from her artistic path and current work, talks about challenges of transmitting a child's inner world through facial expression, importance of living in nature, and other things. To see more of her work please visit her website: http://www.bdeval.com Brought to you by La Foresta - a forest of handmade stories: laforesta.co

Brigitte Deval
maker of dolls and sculptures

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living. More info: www.laforesta.co/projects

Martina Vanda
illustrator, ceramist

La Foresta Creativity Cookbook is a collection of thoughts, shared experiences and bits of personal wisdom about creative processes. It's made up by people who adopt creativity as their work, daily curiosity, or way of living.

Milimbo is a publisher and a design studio based in Spain. They live in the world of visual communication, adapting pictures and images as their mother tongue. They produce games, books, illustrations, decorations, graphics, all to urge you to play, to be imaginative, and to tell your own stories. 
To see more of their work please visit them at www.milimbo.com

Milimbo
design studio