汉贝托Humberto Valles：美籍墨西哥人，广东新风景陶瓷有限公司（ICC瓷砖）总经理，InDesign创意总监，ICC General Manager。

    在各种各样提升创造力的事情里，如果要选一个出来，旅行肯定排首位。如果不能到国外，只要到外地，与日常工作不同的地方去也好。

    从事陶瓷行业的大多数人，一般来自佛山或邻近的省份。如果要出行，不妨选择到北京、上海、厦门、苏州、澳门和香港等地方，去做不同的事，看不同的人，不同的颜色，不同的建筑风格。

    积极去尝试，哪怕有时与工作有关。关注周围的一切，或许这就是你下一个项目、产品、设计的灵感来源。

    如果能够出国旅行便更好了，因为你将会经历与日常生活完全不同的体验，饮食、生活方式、建筑、天空、色彩、人们的衣着打扮、家庭、餐厅、商店的布置等等。所有这些将帮助你学习新的东西和风格，当然，也能让你产生新的点子，你只需要打开身心，完全的接收你所见到、感受到的一切，他们便能发生特别的作用。

    如果你要到国外的话，每年的意大利博洛尼亚展会是陶瓷行业人士必到的一站。到了那里，那当然不能错过只需两小时行程便到达的维罗纳和威尼斯。第二个不错的选择是美国的Coverings 展会，一般在奥兰多，有时在芝加哥，去年在亚特兰大，而明年将在拉斯维加斯（成人的迪斯尼游乐场）举行。在这里你可以看到最现代的酒店，他们在激烈的竞争下，推出的最好的餐馆、酒吧，夜总会……当然少不了值得一看的、你只能在这座城市见到的高大华丽的建筑、装饰、设计等等。从达拉斯维加斯去洛杉矶、三藩和圣迭戈很方便，这是去看看美国现代化一面的好机会。

    第三个选择是去二月份的西班牙瓦伦西亚cevisama展会，这个展会也是很不错的，但由于刚好是中国的春节，所以没有那么受欢迎。如果你去的话，同样可以去附近的巴塞罗那等大城市逛逛。

    我现在呢，正在印度尼西亚度过中国国庆假日，准确来说是在巴厘岛。

    这是我第二次来这里。第一次来的时候，我和妻子就决定一定要再来。我们喜欢这里宜人的气候和天气，还有热情好客的巴厘人。他们太有创造力了，他们独特的建筑超乎外人想像。

    在这里我看到各种缤纷的色彩、丰富的样式和不同的风格，相信这些有趣的设计和产品能给我带来许多启发，为未来推出新产品、空间设计带来帮助。

    如果你有计划到国外参加下一个陶瓷大展会。我建议你去明年四月二十九日至五月二日在拉斯维加斯的coverings。希望在那里见到你！(翻译：吴凯怡)

    One of the things that has to be on the top of your list if you want to improve your creativity is traveling. If you can’t travel outside of China just try to go to places that are very different than where you are from or where you work.

    In our case and in our industry most people are from Foshan or work in Foshan and come from nearby provinces. If you can travel go to Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Suzhou, Macao, and Hong Kong. This will help you see different things, people, colors, architecture, buildings, styles, etc.

    Just try to do it even if it is work related. But when you travel make sure you pay attention to everything that is around you and to the things that may inspire you to do your next project, product, design or decoration.

    And if you can travel outside of China even better because you will see for sure things that are absolutely different to anything you have ever seen before. The food, the lifestyle, the architecture, the sky, the colors, the way people dress, the way the homes, restaurants, businesses are decorated. All of these will help you learn new things, styles, etc., and for sure will help you with new ideas but you need to make sure that if you go, make sure you open your mind and make yourself available to process and record everything you see or at least anything that may help you.

    A must stop if you are in the ceramic industry and if you can travel outside of China is traveling to Bologna Italy to the yearly fair that is held there and since you are in Italy already it wouldn’t hurt going to Verona and Venice just less than two hours away. Maybe at this moment the second best option would be traveling to Coverings fair held in Orlando, sometimes Chicago, last year Atlanta but the following year would be in Las Vegas (Disneyland for the adults). Here you can see the most modern hotels that seem to be in constant competition for having the best Restaurants, Shows, Bars, Nightclubs, etc., and certainly worth watching. Great architecture, decoration, designs, etc., that you can only find in this city. And since you are already in Las Vegas it is easy to go to Los Angeles, San Francisco or San Diego, great choices to go see the modern USA.

    The third option is traveling to the Fair that used to be pretty good in Valencia Spain CEVISAMA in the month of February. Maybe this fair is not very popular among Chinese because of its proximity to CNY. But if you go you can also go to great cities nearby where you can go and see great things like Barcelona.

    Right now I am in Indonesia during this Chinese national holiday. And to be more precise I am in Bali.

    This is my second trip here. I liked it so much the first time I came that my wife and I decided to come here again. We like the atmosphere, weather, hospitality and also the architecture, creativity of the Balinese people, these guys are unbelievable craftsmen.

    I see here many colors, forms, styles, different and interesting designs and applications of product that hopefully will help me get inspired for future new product launches, space designs or decoration for our business.