Comments on: 60,000 Creatives

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:14:37 +0000

I guess the issue is that not all creators work in “The Creative Sector”.

By: Russ L

Russ L — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:55:23 +0000

Surely it’s an adjective, rather than a noun.

The people in question are creators rather than creatives, I would have thought.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:39:47 +0000

I know where you’re coming from on this. It’s only now I’m seeing and using it every day that I don’t cringe at the “creative” tag. Isn’t being creative just something that all humans do? Do we include cooks? Couples trying for babies?

That said, it’s just a word. And handy umbrella term that can be used in this context without worrying about the semantics too much. There’s nothing novel about The Novel after all.

But I’m someone who calls himself a Blogger so I can’t really talk…

By: jk

jk — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:03:16 +0000

I really don’t like that term “Creative”, it always feels like its the lazy catch all to define “those people over there” typically used by employers/clients to define us people who do the messy stuff for them.

Birmingham seems particularly hung up on the term, there must be around 20-30 arts projects with Creative in the title, isn’t there a better term? At least one we could use internally amongst us people who make stuff?