This lecture is one of the talks that i felt has mostly inspired my developing practice. It was about using our sketchbooks during the talk to make visual notes, using our imaginations to make the words into a visual form . It wasn't a perfect drawing exercise but one for us to practice doodling without censoring our imaginations, which i think is a really important fundamental of being a designer and something that isn't made priority of these days. It highlighted the importance of sketchbooks for us as designers and the importance of exploration and not censoring your initial ideas and thoughts. It was an exercise to remove solid thinking of am i allowed to express that or draw that, and help us to just do it.
I found this concept really useful, helping me to visual the notes helped me to gain a deeper understanding of what was being spoken about. I used doodling in a way that linked all the ideas and concepts being spoken about together in a chronological way using arrows and exaggerated lines. It helped me to picture the links between subjects and ideas. These are my visual notes from the lecture.
The task following the lecture.
"This week we want you to use your sketched notes from the lecture (these will inevitably be less
direct and more open to interpretation than written notes) as a starting point think about ways of
creatively generating or recording ideas. Choose an element(s) of your sketches and begin to
develop this into something visually interesting and conceptually meaningful. Try to be relaxed
and not to censor this process."
Key words and phrases: Creativley generating and recording ideas
Developing your sketches
Visually interesting
Conceptually meaningful
Do not censor the process
I began by thinking of the concept behind my original sketches. It was to help me visualise the ideas i was talking about in a way that flowed and linked all my ideas and thoughts together. I wanted to try and develop this as a visual style. I started to begin to look at if this style was already something that existed in the design world. Turns out many designers use it as a way of visually organising there thoughts. This is a designer i follow on Instagram i love her style of creating visual flow charts , and the original hand drawn typography.
This is my initial experiment of visual flow charting. Its quite rough and i think the style needs refining , but its something i really want to go on and develop in my own time especially the style of the typography i use, i want to create my own.
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This workshop began to make me think about the importance of a designers sketchbook, and how i would love to see how other people create and develop there initial thoughts and ideas through doodling and sketching. I came across a book in waterstones called "Typographix sketchbooks" in which more than one hundred of the worlds leading typographers and graphic designers open up their private sketchbooks. It was so interesting to see how other people work compared to myself and all the different styles. Over the summer i would love to develop a collection of my own sketchbooks just documenting every day events ,conversations i have with people , thoughts i make. I think this will help me develop my initial thinking process in my practice a lot more.
