Reading #4

How To Get Ideas

Visual Brain Dumping

1 Start Sketching
2 Set a Time Limit
3 Keep Moving

Forced Connections

How To Force a Connection

1 Choose a connection
2 Make two lists
3 Combine styles, messages, or functions
4 Choose one or more viable ideas

Action Verbs

How to Activate an Idea

1 Start with a basic concept
2 Apply a series of actions to the core image or idea
3 Step back and look at what you did

Everything from Everywhere

How to Get Everything from Everywhere

1 Be a sponge
2 Keep a sketchbook
3 Observe other artists and designers
4 Make a database
5 Work with a concept in mind

Rhetorical Figures

Basic Figures of Speech

1 Allusion
2 Amplification
3 Anastrophe
4 Anthimeria
5 Antithesis
6 Ellipsis
7 Hyperbole
8 Litotes
9 Metaphor
10 Metonymy
11 Paradox
12 Paranomasia
13Personification
14 Polyptoton
15 Repetition
16 Synecdoche