Everyone has a Creative Type. What’s yours?
The Creative Types test is an exploration of the many faces of the creative personality. Based in psychology research, the test assesses your basic habits and tendencies—how you think, how you act, how you see the world—to help you better understand who you are as a creative. Answer these 15 questions and you’ll gain a deeper understanding of your motivations, plus insight into how to maximize your natural gifts and face your challenges.
These personality types aren’t black-and-white labels. Think of them more as signposts pointing you toward your full creative potential. While there’s probably one core type that best describes you, you may change types at different points in your life and career, or even at different stages of the creative process. As a creative, you have a little bit of all eight Types inside you.
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Anyways Creative: Creative Partner Anyways is a creative agency that helps brands to become more adventurous and meaning-driven through collaborations with the world’s best creative talent. As part of the HudsonBec Group alongside It’s Nice That, they believe in the power of creativity in brand communications. Anyways Creative acted as the Creative Partner behind Adobe’s Creative Types project, including sourcing creative collaborators and overseeing the project from ideation to execution.
Carolyn Gregoire: Test Designer + WriterCarolyn is a Brooklyn-based writer and creative collaborator whose work explores the inner lives of humans. She’s written about everything from psychedelic research to neuroaesthetics to Vedic meditation for publications like Scientific American, TIME, Harvard Business Review, and The Huffington Post, and she is a co-author of Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind. Carolyn created the experimental design and wrote the content for the Creative Types project.
Isabel + Helen: Set DesignersIsabel + Helen use simple sensory pleasures as a starting point to create ambitious installations that invite their audiences to become participants in play. Combining a stripped-back aesthetic with a sense of humor, they conceive both quiet interventions and large-scale constructions. Isabel + Helen designed and created the playful, tactile environments that appear in the videos between the Creative Types test questions.
Anton Hjertstedt: Character DesignerAnton Hjertstedt is a 3D artist living and working in London. He uses 3D software and virtual reality to create pieces that integrate digital explorations, still life, uncanny architecture, and materiality. Anton has worked with brands including the New York Times, Zegna, Soho house, Droga5, and Reebok. He designed and produced the Creative Types’ eight character representations.
BBDE: Videographer + Film DirectorBrendan Baker and Daniel Evans are a London-based photographic duo whose still-life work combines the power of the surreal and the hyperreal. Collaborating since 2011, they’ve produced imagery for the likes of Apple, Adidas, Louis Vuitton, and Hermés, and their work has been exhibited in galleries in London, Los Angeles, and New York. Baker and Evans directed and photographed the sets used for the videos between the Creative Types test questions.
Daniel Powell: Web DesignerDan Powell is a web designer and developer whose work explores the way people interact and play within digital spaces. Dan, who works primarily in the realm of art and design, created and produced the Creatives Types interactive digital experience.