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Today is the last day of our 30 days of Creative Inspiration Exercises. In order to honor the sometimes struggle we’ve had coming up with new exercises, our last one is going to turn the tables. Come up with a creative exercise for yourself or your team. Keep in mind the purpose is to have fun while getting to a different frame of mind – kind of like drugs, but legal.
Feel free to share your exercises here!
I love a good nightmare. It’s arguably the only kind of trouble that goes away when you wake up. Last night, I dreamt that I had a baby whose papoos kept catching on fire. I spent all night continually putting out the flames, only for them to reappear. Your exercise today is to interprete my dream. Tell me what it reaveals about me as a person, what it means for my future and weather or not I’m lucky.
Everyone likes a poem. Make a haiku to convince your boss to institute three day weekends. Remember that a haiku doesn’t have to rhyme and their form is 5 – 7 – 5.
I’ve lost my glasses…again. I’m not sure how it happened as they normally make their way into their case in my purse, but alas, they are gone. Your mission today is to invent a device to help poor souls like myself find and keep their glasses in the future. I don’t want any fancy neck string either – I want something stylish and sophisticated. If it’s high-tech I’ll love it even more.
As creative professionals, many of our clients expect that we have what they term “traditional art skills”. Well, just because I’m a graphic designer, doesn’t mean that I can draw. Or at least that I think that I can draw. The truth is, we’re too judgmental of our own work. Today, we’re throwing that all out the window. Grab your sketch book or a sheet of paper and choose something in your work area to draw. There are three catches to this exercise. One: YOU CANNOT LOOK AT YOUR PAPER. Two: YOU CANNOT PICK UP YOUR PEN. Three: YOU HAVE A 60 SECOND LIMIT UNTIL YOU MOVE TO THE NEXT OBJECT TO SKETCH. Have fun and remember, when you’re done your sketch looks exactly the way it was supposed to.
Sitting around with my sister-in-law yesterday, she mentioned that we had an a**-load of holiday decorations. She then corrected herself saying it was more like a s**t-load. Which begs the question, is an a**-load more or less than a s**t-load? For your exercise today, you are to create a measurement system for anything that might need measuring. You better get started, you have an a**-load of work to do.
Words are a lost art form. With television, the easy use of youtube and phones that capture and play video at a moment’s notice, we’re a society that reliant on visuals. Well, it’s time to get back to basics. Using only words, describe how to tie a shoelace.
As creative professionals, we often have to state our case for why we feel things should be done a certain way. “Blue is traditionally a corporate color so that’s why we used it in your logo” “Web users aren’t used to looking for the navigation underneath the content so we recommend putting it above” etc. In this exercise you’ll be using your reasoning and debate skills to argue for or against one of life’s biggest questions: Should the toilet seat be left up or down? Come up with five points to back your position.