Visual Brain Dumping
Start sketching:quick, small sketches
Set a time limit: 20 minute period
Keep moving: make alternative sketches
Forced Connections
Choose a connection: decide what connections are forced
Make two lists: make connections and imagine the results
Combine styles, messages or functions: Identify conflicting or overlapping ideas
Choose one or more viable ideas: make simple graphic images
Action Verbs
Star with a basic concept: start somewhere
Apply a series of actions to the core image or idea: quick sketches
Step back and look at what you did: find best ideas and take the farther
Everything from Everywhere
Be a sponge: be actively absorbent
Keep a sketch book: write down everything you see that you like
Observe other artists and designers: learn how they get ideas
Make a database: collect things
Work with a concept in mind: frame decisions through specific form or conceptual ideas
Basic figures of speech
Allusion
Amplification
Anastrophe
Anthimeria
Antithesis
Ellipsis
Hyperbole
Litotes
Metaphor
Metonymy
Paradox
Paronomasia
Personification
Polytoton
Repetition
Synecdoche
