Idea Bucket

IDEA BUCKET

IDEA LIST:

Make a book cover design, complete with title and author
Design a CD cover for your favourite singer
Design a transformation piece, such as starting with a whole apple and taking a bite until it is just the core in 5 steps, or an egg turning into a chicken in 5 steps.
Design a specific tarot card around a specific theme - sports, fashion, medicine advances, electronics, etc.
Design a tryptic around a theme - some themes: imagination, happiness, victory, being a dare-devil, loneliness, sadness, broken heart, etc.
Pick an everyday object, such as a pair of scissors; create a dynamic composition still-life, and complete the piece in three different materials: one third outlined, one third shaded and one third colour.
Pick a time in history and design a piece around elements that represent it.
Design a pattern for a repeatable tile (something that could be used as wall paper, etc.)
Make a self-portrait of you as a robot.
Transform vegetables into something else, or make a design involving only vegetables and representing something else (rutabaga puppies and artichoke airplanes, anyone?)
Design a piece with a humanized animal as centerpiece (if you put a pig in a bikini, remember they have many teats)
Pick an everyday object and draw or paint it using a human emotion - fear, happiness, anger, etc.
A three-point perspective design of everyday objects used to build a city.
A three-point perspective design of a surreal, futuristic or steam punk landscape/city.
A distorted or curved perspective piece of dream scene -- a bad dream? A good dream?
A fisheye-lens perspective of an underwater scene.
Design a piece that makes people care more about something, or brings something to light; environment, poverty, bullying, eating disorders, domestic violence, mental illnesses, cancer, or something else that matters to you and that you could explore.
Work on Illustrator and InDesign to produce a magazine cover without the use of any photos.
Do a photographic collage to serve as a brochure for a certain location (use your own pictures) on InDesign and Photoshop.
Create an educational poster on your favourite subject.
Create a logo redesign for a famous brand on Illustrator

Any one of these can become your concentration! For instance, you can have a book cover and all the illustrations inside; or a series of fisheye-lens pieces; or a set of tarot cads in a certain theme; or a series of self-portraits, each one displaying a unique perspective of you, with different media; and on and on!

IDEA SPARKERS:

Abstraction—to depict an idea or essence of an image by reducing it to essential elements.
Animation—to serialize images in various stages of action to depict movement and progression.
Distortion—to bend, twist, stretch, or compress an image.
Elaboration—to embellish, add pattern, detail, and adornment to an image.
Fragmentation—to split, fragment, insert, invert, rotate, shatter, superimpose, and/or divide an image and then reconstruct it to create a new synthesis of parts.
Juxtaposition—to combine unlikely images or exchange, overlap, or superimpose parts to create unusual relationships and a new synthesis.
Magnification—to take a small, but critical, portion of an image and enlarge it.
Metamorphosis—to depict images or forms in progressive stages of growth or change.
Multiplication—to multiply parts to produce repetition, rhythm, or a sequence.
Reversals—to reverse the laws of nature (e.g., time of day, seasons, gravity, size, age, function) or reverse space as in negative/positive.
Simplification—to record only the most important parts of an image, omitting extraneous repetitive details.
Viewpoint—to depict an image from unusual points of view; a foreshortened viewpoint can be exaggerated.

Also, consider using Photography and Digital Art as alternative techniques to explore.

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