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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
GD IV Blog 2
Write a paragraph about your challenge brainstorming ideas. Explain your concept idea. Answer: How can you think creatively? What helps you be creative? How important is creating thumbs in your opinion?
I prefer to play with my ideas on photoshop instead of sketching them out. I wanted to go with something more modern and simplistic with my idea. Music helps me to think creatively in that I can tune out the rest of my surroundings. I don't care much for thumbs. I feel like you get a better understanding of how your final product if you play around in the program rather than thumbnail it.
The challenge with brainstorming ideas is actually getting started. From the beginning though it gets easier, since you have something to work with. Thinking creatively can be easily accomplished when you have a problem and discover the answer to it. With that answer you can run with it - using interesting means in order to come out with a finished product. Thinking outside the box is a good thing in creativity, just run with that it and usually it will end up in an interesting place. - Adam Austin
For my challenge brainstorming I immediately folded a piece of copy paper as if it were a brochure and just went to town with a pencil and an eraser. I really loved the outcome so i turned to photoshop and began creating. I am really going for a more sophisticated look being that is is a series of dignified recognitions. If I were the seniors and faculty being rewarded, I would expect and very charming, elegant program explaining the events. Creativity just comes to me, and usually my first ideas always turn out the best when i start laying it all out. I like to think about relativity and how useful the object will be for the event. I think thumbs are a nice way of giving yourself some direction. Without them, I would be a mess. It gives me the option to do somethings in some kind of order. It keeps from forgetting things.
I sketched out my idea on a sketch pad. I usually sketch out my ideas before going into software with it. It allows me to put every detail that I want into my work. For this brochure I wanted to go with a modern kind of media looking deal, a very simple design, but different from past works. When I sketch out my ideas I sometimes do use thumbs, and prefer to use them. I think they are important in that it gives you many ideas to choose from instead of visualizing one particular form.
sketching helps me come up with ideas but if that doesn't work i write down some words that can help me out with ideas. my idea for the brochure is to make it as simple and clean as possible. just being original is a way you can think creatively. creating thumbs are very important it helps you realize new ideas and visualize your ideas before you actually start.
Brainstorming was slow. I myself really like minimalism, it was a very stylish flair to it and I try to incorporate it whenever I can effectively. Typically once I get an idea though, I know exactly how I want it to look in my mind.
Getting started is difficult, but once you get an idea of what you want to do, it all kind of flows from there. I think creatively by looking at others' work to be quite honest. I check google images or glance around the room to all my classmates to see what they're thinking about. Then I kind of just go from there. I think that creating thumbs can be important, however almost every time I do, my final project never looks like what I drew. I guess it depends on the project. Sometimes I would rather start creating it on photoshop or illustrator and changing things as I go. My drawings are awful so I never know what it will really look like in the end so I sometimes skip the thumbnail sketches.
When I'm brainstorming, it's usually based off an idea that just sort of "popped up" in my head already. I'll do series of sketches, talk it out with friends or just write about it and so on. if i'm writing i will just keep the older versions as i gradually revise the story/idea to suit me. drawing is much the same way.
i feel that talking with friends gives me a great outsiders' point of view and helps me think of solutions/additions to my ideas that i may not have come up with alone.
I prefer to play with my ideas on photoshop instead of sketching them out. I wanted to go with something more modern and simplistic with my idea. Music helps me to think creatively in that I can tune out the rest of my surroundings. I don't care much for thumbs. I feel like you get a better understanding of how your final product if you play around in the program rather than thumbnail it.
ReplyDeleteThe challenge with brainstorming ideas is actually getting started. From the beginning though it gets easier, since you have something to work with. Thinking creatively can be easily accomplished when you have a problem and discover the answer to it. With that answer you can run with it - using interesting means in order to come out with a finished product. Thinking outside the box is a good thing in creativity, just run with that it and usually it will end up in an interesting place. - Adam Austin
ReplyDeleteFor my challenge brainstorming I immediately folded a piece of copy paper as if it were a brochure and just went to town with a pencil and an eraser. I really loved the outcome so i turned to photoshop and began creating. I am really going for a more sophisticated look being that is is a series of dignified recognitions. If I were the seniors and faculty being rewarded, I would expect and very charming, elegant program explaining the events. Creativity just comes to me, and usually my first ideas always turn out the best when i start laying it all out. I like to think about relativity and how useful the object will be for the event. I think thumbs are a nice way of giving yourself some direction. Without them, I would be a mess. It gives me the option to do somethings in some kind of order. It keeps from forgetting things.
ReplyDeleteI sketched out my idea on a sketch pad. I usually sketch out my ideas before going into software with it. It allows me to put every detail that I want into my work. For this brochure I wanted to go with a modern kind of media looking deal, a very simple design, but different from past works. When I sketch out my ideas I sometimes do use thumbs, and prefer to use them. I think they are important in that it gives you many ideas to choose from instead of visualizing one particular form.
ReplyDeletesketching helps me come up with ideas but if that doesn't work i write down some words that can help me out with ideas. my idea for the brochure is to make it as simple and clean as possible. just being original is a way you can think creatively. creating thumbs are very important it helps you realize new ideas and visualize your ideas before you actually start.
ReplyDeleteBrainstorming was slow. I myself really like minimalism, it was a very stylish flair to it and I try to incorporate it whenever I can effectively. Typically once I get an idea though, I know exactly how I want it to look in my mind.
ReplyDeleteGetting started is difficult, but once you get an idea of what you want to do, it all kind of flows from there. I think creatively by looking at others' work to be quite honest. I check google images or glance around the room to all my classmates to see what they're thinking about. Then I kind of just go from there. I think that creating thumbs can be important, however almost every time I do, my final project never looks like what I drew. I guess it depends on the project. Sometimes I would rather start creating it on photoshop or illustrator and changing things as I go. My drawings are awful so I never know what it will really look like in the end so I sometimes skip the thumbnail sketches.
ReplyDelete(Sara Ford)
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm brainstorming, it's usually based off an idea that just sort of "popped up" in my head already. I'll do series of sketches, talk it out with friends or just write about it and so on. if i'm writing i will just keep the older versions as i gradually revise the story/idea to suit me. drawing is much the same way.
i feel that talking with friends gives me a great outsiders' point of view and helps me think of solutions/additions to my ideas that i may not have come up with alone.