Body/Mind map (12th Nov)

i am supposed to draw my body/mind maps of when i was learning something well and badly. for learning something well, my mind automatically went into when i am in soccer training. and for learning something badly, it would be the subject i dislike the most during my secondary school days, which is POA.

i've noticed that i am able to learn things better when it's taught physically rather than reading it from the book. and the differences between the both is the emotions given out. when i am learning something well, there is the 'feel good' emotion flowing all over my body and there is instant relief and happiness that i'm able to learn that particular skill well. however when i am learning something badly, the feeling of rejection will flow all over my body. like i will feel very useless as to 'why cant i even learn something so simple?' or 'why can the others catch up yet i cant?'. this results in me feeling very inferior and upset.

then i also drew out the map when i am being creative. i am supposed to compare the maps of learning well and being creative. the similarities of them is that they'll both make me feel good about myself after the experience. while the differences are that during the learning well process, i'll feel happy yet during the being creative process, i have actually 'forgotten' to feel. i know it sounds weird but it's really how i feel. like when i am being creative, i do not have the time to feel because i'm scared that if i pause to think about how i am feeling right then, i might lose my inspiration.

i actually think that if i spend more time alone, i'll be able to think and thus create more stuff. i think that nowadays, the thoughts in my mind are very tangled up and i am lazy to spend the time trying to untangle the wires in my mind. and to supercharge my learning, hmm, more hands on experience on the stuff i am supposed to learn would be better. because i think i am more of the practial kind of student, rather than the theory type.

if only there were some sort of button i could click then my creativity juices will come flowing or the power to free myself from mental blocks, it would be very useful for me as the assignments's deadline is running up and yet i am doing nothing of productivity..

fanny.

Body/Mind map (4th Nov)

this is my first body/mind map, done on 4th Nov, week 2.

in the beginning, i really did not manage to understand what a body/mind map is until i saw examples by my seniors. i guess this is good for me because it will help me take note of what/how i am feeling currently. it is also very fun to draw the little person and note down where are the places that we feel and stuff.

fanny.

Mistakes for Drawing Studio

fanny.

Design

i do think that your emotions play a very important role in your creative process. like from the example he gave, if you had given us sweets/chocolates before the "test" of the 50 uses of a marker pen, we would have done better. but i don't think that i would have done any better because firstly, if you hadn't said that it was a test i would have just done it any-o-how and if you had given me chocolates or sweets, i would just sit there feeling hungry. yeah but that's how it works for me. but emotions affect my creative process too. because if i were in a sleepy mode, i would just tune out from your lecture and not pay any attention and i'm sure it works this way for the rest as well.

brainstorming is quite useful for me as it branches out my creativity from a very limited space to a larger media. however the ideas that i generate are usualy quite bad (to me).

a television set to me has all three of the design layers to it. visceral is because a television set is square-shaped and the images show on it feels as if it is trapping our eyes to be fixed on the screen. that's why it's always hard to look away from the television set. the senses sight and hearing is also evoked. behavioral is quite obvious one because we'll get entertained with the shows that's showing on the television set and that makes it effective too. however reflective is quite subjective because it depends on the type of television show you watch. we can't expect everybody to be reflective upon cartoons? although some might be.. so yeah, the reflective part is quite subjective.

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hey.

to me, we all have our own imaginations and creativity. however i think creativity is the higher level of imagination. like we can imagine all we want (like i do all the time) however, it's when we bring those imagination to life or paper, thats when it's call creativity. they both are linked very closely to design. without imagination and creativity, its impossible to come up with new and original ideas. i think my concept of creativity has definitely changed ever since i've come into SD. my designs used to be weird, constricted but meaningful but since our assignments mostly dont have a theme of its own, i really cant think much. this sounds really weird but yeah, seriously.

erm i dont think im creative but i imagine alot. but somehow i cant put those thoughts into paper. i could always write them down but everytime i try designing something (like the previous assignments from last sem), the end product will look very weird and like something's missing. then i'll get all frustrated and leave it as it is.

my last 3 creative things. hmmmm first would be the coffee table book? i think it's quite creative to use the map of taiwan as the cover page and then dedicate the entire book to the food i've ate in taiwan since the map of it looks like a giant sweet potato itself. second would be my hairrrrrr. even though it's inspired by natasha bedingfield but i think its quite creative to get it done like that. ha. okay last would be.. i am going to sew some bags this coming sat! being creative to me is like trying out new things, daring to try even though the idea's been used before but maybe improvising it is a creativity move itself?

i think creativity can be taught and learned. because whenever you have this rush to do something new, you're being creative. being able to break free from the usual boundaries and do something new. instead of doing the usual old boring routine. like for example, you've always been taking the bus or train just to travel to somewhere near. why not take a walk? i think it's also creativity in a sense because you're breaking free from the usual routine. and during that journey there, you might be able to notice something that will help you in your design process. thats how i learn to be more creative. i think alot when i walk. and when i think, new ideas pop up and then i'll note it down on my handphone then i'll do research when i get back home and tada new ideas are then formed.

i've been saving interesting pictures from the internet and works that some artists have done in my computer and i shall look at them repeatedly when i am free. then also, i'll try to start sketching random thoughts on a sketchbook at a usual basis. i'll also start reading more because i believe that books will help you to imagine more effectively. but firstly i must have the determination to continue with this gameplan of mine because i am super lazy but yeah, thats my gameplan. my goal.. let's be a little daring ok. 1 sketchbook of my random thoughts per semester? though it'll be a tough goal to achieve but i'll do it. because i am sick of being lazy.

fanny.