Nicholas Creative Blog: Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention.

Novelty
What is novelty? Novelty is the quality of being something new. Some said that it may have an dimension but it only exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. The objective is to create something that is new for all humanities in its development through ages. Therefore it's originality is not a decisive feature of creative work and is always based on what has been created before. Then the concept of novelty should not be taken for granted and the three elements that is levels, aspects and types should be distinguished. A historical approach implies that it is understood in either terms of contrast with a context and transformation of what was borrowed. the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted, not because of any actual improvement in learning or achievement, but in response to increased interest in the new technology.The increased attention by students sometimes results in increased effort or persistence, which yields achievement gains. If they are due to a novelty effect, these gains tend to diminish as students become more familiar with the new medium.

Creativity
Creativity is the process of generating something that is new and has value at the same time. Even there are many new ideas and concepts, but some may not have value and may not be considered creative. Therefore, a creation is something that is original and has value on it. (Haggins, 1995, p 3) Creativity does not happen inside people's head. but happens in the interaction between a person's thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic phenomenon compare to individual phenomenon. (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996, p 23) However this issue has surrounded a mysterious process that causes sparked discussion and arguments among scholars of psychologist. Creativity involves translation of our unique gifts, talents and vision into an external reality that is new and useful and it takes place unavoidably inside our own personal, social, and cultural boundaries. Furthermore, creativity can be identified based on a particular, specifiable features of products or persons thought or thought process. The ways in which societies have perceived the concept of creativity has changed thought out history, has the term itself. Renaissance men sought to give voice to their sense of their freedom and creativity. The first to apply the word "creativity," however, was the 17th-century Polish poet Maciej Karzimierez Sarbiewski — but he applied it only to poetry. In the 19th century, art took its revenge: now not only was art recognized as creativity, but it alone was. When later, at the turn of the 20th century, there began to be discussion as well of creativity in the sciences and in nature, this was taken as the transference, to the sciences and to nature, of concepts that were proper to art.

Innovation
The definition is to bring in new ideas or make changes on the ideas created. (Oxford Dictionary) In another meaning, innovation is the process of making improvements by introducing something new, the realization of a creative idea in a social context or a process where an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay. Therefore an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and satisfy a specific need. Although many innovations are created from inventions, it is possible to innovate without inventing, and to invent without innovating.

Innovation are divided into two broad categories:
1) Innovations are brought by numerous incremental advances in technology or processes and are of two types:
a) Continuous innovations in an alteration in product characteristics instead of in a new
product, and do not require any user-learning of changes in his/her routine. Examples,
multi-blade shaving razor, fluoride toothpaste and laptop computer.
b) Dynamic continuous require some user-learning but do not disrupts his/her routine.
Examples, fax machines, instant photography, and hand held computers.
2) Revolutionary innovations require good deal of user-learning, and often disrupts his/her routine, and may even require new behavior patterns. Examples, photocopy machines, personal computers and even internet.

Considerable literature has been produced on this hypothesis, which is often presented in terms of the effects of wage increases as an encouragement to labor-saving innovation. The hypothesis has also been applied to viewing increases in energy costs as a motivation for a more rapid improvement in energy efficiency of goods than would normally occur.

Invention
An invention is a new process or composition that creates a new item. Invention is a very creative process. It derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which may be a radical breakthrough.In addition, there is cultural invensions which is an innovative set from useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. Invention are something new created by inventors who take existing knowledge and generate new ideas or in other word invention is an open and curious mind enables one to see beyond what is known to enable inventors to think outside the box. Invention has a long and important history in the arts. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the creative process. While some inventions in the arts are patentable, others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them.

Well from my experience as an art student, I can say that every design or drawing that is related to my course are required to fulfill all the required skill stated. This is due to once all the four skills is used then a good n creative design is created or invented. For example, during my foundation year at FCM Multimedia, I was required to produce an artwork that is about myself and have to do it as creative as possible so it is not wrong when in the starting there is not much ideas generated because ideas don't come instantly. Therefore with intensive thinking, more and more new ideas is created and finally I can produce a creative artwork about myself. This is the pictures of my artwork from the beginning until the finishing.