Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Novelty is the quality of being new as it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals.

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts.

Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.


"Innovation, however, requires the contexts of both the past and the future.

Innovation must be creative, but must also cause a change in the creations of others (the future).

If someone creates a piece of art that incorporates a new technique, the piece would only be innovative if it inspired other artists to change how they create art, perhaps by creating a movement based around a new technique or approach.


Innovation thus demands a social context of some sort that creativity does not.


Invention obviously must be new, but if I throw paint at a piece of paper , then I’ve created something new while not something inventive.

It must be new in the sense that it has novelty and utility.


Unlike creativity, inventiveness seems to require the creation of a tool of some sort that others can use.

One can create an invention simply by trying something over and over again until something works.


This would not be a creative process.

Nor would it be an innovation,"says Brent Edward which is the Vice President for Research at Starkey Labs, the largest hearing device company in the US.

He also run a center in Berkeley, CA where they conduct research on hearing, cognition, speech and innovative hearing aid technologies, and is a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley

~Brent Edward~

This is the China's toilet which seems novelty to me~

Ain't this cute~ Won't you want to try it?

~Flowers~

~Mirrors~

In class exercise:

Creating an image of a public figure

Bill Gates

This is my imaginary of Bill Gates

Basically, Bill Gates in my imaginery is a symbol of Evolution.

Without him, human won't be able to evolve so fast to create a Cyber World.

As you can see, he worked very hard in order to achieve his goal which is to create a world where everyone can use computers freely.

From just cpu, then add in monitor then slowly introducing WINDOWS. Now finally he has come to WINDOWS VISTA, an Operating System which achieving perfection.

This is my avatar drawn by my friend - Ong Shin Ying 1071113456

She asked me a few questions such as:

1. What is your hobby ? and I answered sleeping.

2. What do you enjoy the most? and I answered Playing?

3. What color you like the most? and I answered absolutely is Blue colour.

4. What do you dislike ? Assignments!

5. What will you do at weekends? and I answered Sleeping is good for health.

6. Use a word to describe youself. Idle but definitely not lazy.

She thinks that I'm a frog... I think I can be better than A FROG. ~.~

This is her avatar. A bird with a crown. It's true...

My questions were:

1. What is your favourite colour?

Purple.

2. What do you like to do?

Chatting with friends.

3. What is your hobby?

Chatting.

4. What do you enjoyed the most?

Chatting.

5. You like to chat huh?

Yes.

6. Then what do you dislike?

Assignments.

7. Use one word to describe yourself.

Princess.

-_-.......