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Ideation Sketching

April 27, 2011 H FIDO Spring Lecture Series. Ideation Sketching. Welcome!. About me Part-time HFID student Designer, educator, mother Adjunct faculty at Bentley About you Let’s hear a little about each of you What did you come to learn today?. What is Ideation Sketching ?.

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Ideation Sketching

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  1. April 27, 2011 HFIDO Spring Lecture Series Ideation Sketching

  2. Welcome! About me • Part-time HFID student • Designer, educator, mother • Adjunct faculty at Bentley About you • Let’s hear a little about each of you • What did you come to learn today?

  3. What is Ideation Sketching? Ideation Sketching is about loosening up your mind, your hand, and the connection between them. Think Different!—L-mode and R-mode, terms discussed inDrawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edward. “Only left-handed people are in their right minds.”

  4. What is Ideation Sketching? Creating visual solutions Brainstorming with images, words & short phrases Harnessing the right side of the brain to work for us in problem solving

  5. Loosening Up

  6. Make up a Visualization Problem Starter ideas • Logo redesign/branding • 30-second spot commercial storyboard • Instruction sheet for assembly • Book jacket/cover design • Conveying large amounts of data • App icon design

  7. Make up a Visualization Problem Sketch out at least three solutions • Begin drawing • As soon as you have a different idea, draw it • In 60 seconds… Go!! Feel free to jump around your page with ideas. Suspend judgment; it will help you be more prolific.

  8. Loosening Up some more

  9. Digital ToolsUseful Resources Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Great Tutorials for Creating Images:Photoshop StarAdobe's Current TutorialsThese tend to focus on the newest advances of Adobe's latest version. The Media Lab has CS4 and Adobe's site promotes CS5.Good Beginner Illustrator TutorialI often build in Illustrator, pulling in images from Photoshop when I need to. Illustrator creates vector work which has the advantage of being scalable. See hFIDO blog for links

  10. Digital ToolsUseful Resources Start Building Your Portfolio Portfolio Sites:CoroflotThe portfolio website created by Core77, Industrial Design Magazine and Resource.YolaFound out about this one asking a Media Arts student what he used.WordpressAlways a good backup. Check around there for others using it as a portfolio presentation. It's not bad.DroprNow in beta for the public, and an interesting option. Creating a Successful Online PortfolioSmashing Magazine weighs in with some helpful tips.Web colors in HTML code See hFIDO blog for links

  11. Digital ToolsUseful Resources Start Building Your Portfolio Portfolio Sites:CoroflotThe portfolio website created by Core77, Industrial Design Magazine and Resource.YolaFound out about this one asking a Media Arts student what he used.WordpressAlways a good backup. Check around there for others using it as a portfolio presentation. It's not bad.DroprNow in beta for the public, and an interesting option. Creating a Successful Online PortfolioSmashing Magazine weighs in with some helpful tips.Web colors in HTML code See hFIDO blog for links

  12. One Last Game

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