About the author
Roy Sharples is the Founder, President and Chief Creative Officer of Unknown Origins on a mission to unlock everyones creative potential.
Manifesto
Manifesto
Books on Creativity, Innovation & Culture
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Creativity Without Frontiers is a manifesto for makers, leaders, and culture-shapers—those who build not by consensus, but by creative bravery.
Roy Sharples draws from a life at the edge of industry and art, mapping how ideas become action, how teams become movements, and how creativity becomes a system for change.
It explores the full arc of creation—from the spark of imagination to the discipline of making, to the cultures that sustain it—guided not by trends, but by truth.
This isn’t about managing creativity.
It’s about living it—audaciously, precisely, without compromise.
Dream. Make. Do.
Because creativity isn’t what we do after the work.
It is the work.
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CHAPTER 1: PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM
Creativity begins alone—unseen, unfiltered.
It breaks monotony and builds meaning.
It’s a compass, not a map.
Defined by what you choose not to be.
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CHAPTER 2: THE MODERNISTS, MAVERICKS, AND MISFITS
Change is born on the margins.
From misfits who refuse the ordinary,
and design a world worth entering.
Creative rebellion is the long game of legacy.
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CHAPTER 3: POP CULTURE REFLECTS TIME
Pop culture is the feedback loop of history.
It remixes politics, fashion, and protest into prophecy.
It doesn't mirror the moment—it moves it forward.
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CHAPTER 4: CREATIVE SOCIETIES
When imagination becomes culture,
creativity becomes currency.
Societies thrive not on output—
but on the audacity to envision better.
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CHAPTER 5: CHAOS TO CULTURE
Creativity loves friction.
Where risk is ritual, and rules are tools.
This is the raw space where culture takes shape—
messy, urgent, alive.
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CHAPTER 6: AESTHETICS IN LOVE – THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Dream. Make. Do.
From vision to execution,
creativity is not linear—it’s lyrical.
The art is in the becoming.
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CHAPTER 7: LEADING WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Creative leaders don’t command.
They cultivate.
From fledgling to artist,
they shape culture through clarity, curiosity, and bold intent.
Leadership is not hierarchy—it’s imagination in motion.
Reviews
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Roy Sharples
Writes from the edges—where creative ambition meets doubt, and imperfection becomes a kind of truth. He champions creative bravery not as a skill, but as a vital life force: urgent, unruly, and essential to progress.
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From startup chaos to global boardrooms, he has shaped brands and ideas that live at the intersection of technology, art, and soul. But it’s in the rupture—behind the curated self, in the quiet unravelling—where his real subject lies.
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