Just had a discussion with my manager about the anxiety of modern fathers over the fact that the creative skills children are developing these days are to do with the intangible virtual interactions, whereas my youth was about making stuff, physical interactions. There is a lot of anxiety about this gap, especially for the generation who broke things in dad’s shed, or garage. That’s actually everybody except the current batch. It seems very different to sitting on the floor with a Playstation. But I often wonder what being creative now requires, and does working in a purely electronic way, sitting at a desk peering at a monitor, hinder my creativity? Should I be sketching more? (more…)