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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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