Inspiration creativity

Many people might confuse about creativiy. How to be more creative?  How to inspire creativity? Where to find our inspiration? Creativity is everywhere. No matter what we see, what we smell,what we hear and even what we feel, it might inspire us. Creativity is very important in our life especially for those who are in design field. For those designers that work in company, they could not simply leave their work place. Therefore, they will  sit in front of computer to do research which can inspire them. They might looking for the others nice  work as reference. Free-lance designers prefer to explore more new things which are not around them. They might have a short travel to another place. Maybe they will walk around to look for something that is special and can inspire them. No matter how, exploration is very important to those who want to inspire their creativity.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a creativity technique help us to generate a large number of ideas for a project and also solution for a problem. Normally, this method will be used in group discussion. At first, participants with different knowledge will come together. They will bring various types of ideas and solutions. For sure we will come up with a lot of ideas no matter good or bad at the beginning. The big advantage is we can learn a lot of new things from each other since everyone might come from different background. Everyone has the own ideas and experiences. Once the ideas become more and more, they will discuss and filter out those unsatisfied ideas or improve it to get the best solution. This method is not only help to inspire creativity but also help to improve teamwork in a group since the final solution must be agreed by majority

Creativity of kids

What is creativity? Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas, a different perspective view on something and explore new thing with own knowledge. Creativity is important because it brings out  new and exciting ideas and activities that are unique to a person.

In my opinion, kids are more creative compared with adults and they might be the most creative group among all people. Adults tend to be hard to generate their new ideas compared to kids. Sometimes, they might have new ideas but don't dare to explore it. They might be worry too much about the result, afraid of the bad consequences. They don't feel like take adventure. Sometimes, they have their ideas but lazy to explore it until the another person generate the same idea and successful. They will only  feel regret not  explore it earlier and blame themselves.

Kids are totally different with adult. They like to figure out something interesting and fun. They tend to be more creative just because they are still small and naive. They might think lesser about the consequences compared with adults. People might think that what they done will bring bad effect. But they do not realise that dreaming doesn't help. The most important is take action. If you never try, no matter how creative you are, you are just dreaming.

Dot

When we see a lot of dots, there is a implied line will  lead our eyes to connect all the dots. Implied line is an invisible line that will automatically lead our eyes to connect all the dots and form an object. We do not have to learn it since it is our natural reaction. We could not really see a real object but we can feel it because of implied line.

Dot to dot drawing is a form of drawing in which numbered dots on page must be connected in ascending order to create a final picture. Most of the kids should play this game before including me when I was small. Once we use pencil to connect all the dots by following the numbers, we can see the form of the object in the dot drawing. It is not only easy and fun but also and educational game that help to inspire imagination and creativity of kids. As we know, dots form line. Lines form  hape and shapes form object. 

Point of Purchase Display

What is point of purchase display? It is a marketing materials placed next to the merchandise it is promoting. These items are generally located at the checkout area or other location where the purchase decision is made. Normally, we can see that the checkout counters of many convenience stores are cluttered with candy or cigarette POP display.

I still remember last time, our Creative Communication Design tutor asked us to create a POP display. I chose M&M Milk Chocolate as my product and christmas as my display theme. At first, I planned to use christmas tree model as my POP display. When I showed the tutor all my sketches, she was just rejected my sketches directly. She asked me to think more about christmas and what else can represent christmas since everyone will know what am i going to present once they see my display and no suprise at all.After that , I was thinking that what else can represent a cheerful and sweet christmas.Santa Claus?Snowing? Or elf? At last, I design a gingerbread house model as my POP display and this ides had been approved. The reason I used gingerbread house is once we look at the display, we can feel how "chocolate" it is and how sweet it is. Besides, it is also one of the christmas tradition which can strongly represent christmas.

This is my M&M Milk Chocolate POP Display.

Colours expresses feeling

Colour is a very amazing tools. Colours can be divided as warm and cool colours. Warm colour is from red to end of the spectrum while cool colour is from  blue to the other end. It is not only can make something look more interesting but also communicate with people. Colour is involved in psychological theory. It help us to express our feeling.

These are some of the colours expression meaning

Black- death, mystery, unbearable, evil, criminality, hidden aspects, sinister, depression, grief, pain, hopelessness 

Blue- old, peace, depression, sadness, relax, calm, piety, wisdom, introspection, solitude, loneliness

Brown- wood, comfort, ground, earth, substance, worn 

Gold- value, honour, luxury

Green- nature, fertility, balance, youth, water.

Grey- neutrality, sadness.

Orange- strength, endurance, warm.

Red- love, passionate, excitement, appetite, health, courage, hot, danger, aggressiveness, power

Purple- royalty, high range

Yellow- hope, joy, sun, delicate, spiritually, innovation, intelligence

White- purity, innocence, cleanness, cold.

                         This is chinese style wedding. Bride wears red which represent happiness.

                             This is western style wedding. Bride wears white which represent purity.

Black represent sadness and death.

                                                           Gold represent loyalty and wealth.

                                                           Green represent nature and grassy

Light Painting

Light painting is a fun technique that gives great results. It is a technique that painting with light because what we are actually do is moving hand-held light source or moving the camera.
When I went for shooting with friends at I-City, we met a photographer which is my friend's photography teacher. We felt glad to know him because he shared a lot of shooting skill with us and also the person who make us know what is light painting and how to do that. 
There are 4 things that we need for light painting is a long exposure shutter setting camera, tripod, a flash light such as torch light and a dark location. Painting with light is very interesting because it can form a colorful and bright figure in a dark location. Besides, it is quite easy to be formed because we don't really need a professional skill.

                                        These are light painting by moving laser lorch light

                                              This is light painting by moving the camera