Lecture 7
23/11/10
Key principles
- Overcoming Mindset
- Getting Rid Of Assumption
Development Of Creative Thought And Structure In Illustration And Graphic Art
Becoming Creative, we can learn new skills through various places and things such as education, training, observation, reading and personal experience. Remaining Creative is through a thinking process aimed at originality, generating new ideas and solutions for old problems. Creativity is a new way of looking at things.
Overcoming Mindset
Relaxing your habitual thinking patterns frees oneself from practice. Being able to this enables you to come away from predictable results, and add to the element of surprise rather than lack of it. Breaking the rules removes oneself from the idea of habitual thinking, coming out of your comfort zone can take you somewhere new.
Overcoming Mindset - 3 step rule
- Think about rules you would like to break.
- Find ways to challenge or change the rules.
- Be playful/ free yourself from conventions and preconceptions.
Breaking rules needs critical awareness of prevailing attitudes, careful observation, enquiry into existing methodology.
Christopher Nieman
Nieman's play on visual metaphors is quite humorous. His way of showing the relationship between toothpaste and the brush is quite humorous and playful, an example of what i think is overcoming your mindset and thinking about new ways of portraying something that we don't really consider into something playful that makes us think.
As a practitioner you could begin to relax you habitual thinking pattern and maybe challenge your mindset by giving yourself more options and ideas to work from, listing the immediate responses and moving away from them and approaching problems with an open mind.
Getting Rid Of Assumption
Approaching a problem with an open mind, and doing things such as experimenting and exploring different ways of portraying something could prevent us looking at problems from a new perspective Thinking strategies such as similes, analogies and metaphors all provide new ideas for problem solving.
Finding ways of coming up with ideas in a easy way (example above) mind mapping, brain storming and classification. This is very useful as organizing ideas into a system allows you to recognize hidden and common points enabling you to generate diverse connections allows you to stretch your ideas further creating spontaneous and a generation of new ideas hopefully leading into
Rob Ryan
Rob Ryan work is instantly recognizable due to his intricate hand cut illustrations. He doesn't use the latest technology but simply handcrafted work produced using a scalpel.
Looking at a problem you are working on and examine ways in which you can come of it and look at it from a different angle, simply record different ways of approaching it.
Inspirational sources and suitable surroundings can also push and generate these ideas.
For example as maybe a textiles designer being in a shabby chic enviroment such as this, whilst creating and designing will help trigger a series of ideas due to the inspiring aspects around oneself. So you could also approach problems from this angle, meaning putting yourself into a appropriate surrounding in order to allow your ideas to flow and come alive.
Looking at a problem you are working on and examine ways in which you can come of it and look at it from a different angle, simply record different ways of approaching it.
Inspirational sources and suitable surroundings can also push and generate these ideas.
For example as maybe a textiles designer being in a shabby chic enviroment such as this, whilst creating and designing will help trigger a series of ideas due to the inspiring aspects around oneself. So you could also approach problems from this angle, meaning putting yourself into a appropriate surrounding in order to allow your ideas to flow and come alive.
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