Exercise : Random Word / Image Association.

Task in class:

To create "Scary Image or Object" that will instill fear among people through out the ages.

Random words: Kitten.

What can I think of when see this word - Kitten:

• Scary
• Claws
• Dirty
• Disease 

Association:

1. Scary: Mostly people think that Cats are scary especially the one with dark fur and bright eyes. Most of them usually scared by black cats in the night, because of their bright yellow eyes. Some Chinese believe that black cats signified evil spirit or evil creature that owns 9 lifes.

2. Claws: Claws is known as a main characteristic of a CAT. Besides, their claws are also known as a weapon , they spend a considerable amount of time honing to an extremely sharp point. Cats have a natural inclination to sharpen their claws; unfortunately, they do this by scratching on carpets, woodwork and furniture and bring damages to human's property. Other cats may also be prone to scratching their owners during play, and if you have small children, this may be of concern.

3. Dirty: Stray Cats that don't have owner are very dirty and not unhygienic. They'll pee everywhere and caused trouble to humans.

4. Disease: Cat Scratch Fever or Cat Scratch Disease is a relatively rare illness caused by bacteria cats may carry. Most people who get Cat Scratch Fever will have an uncomplicated illness that resolves on its own in a few weeks. Human should always aware of stray cats that spread diseases.

This is my sketches:

Lesson Seven : Random Word / Image Association.

- an idea generation method which allows students to systematically generate new ideas though fixed formula.The whole premise of Random Association is to use a Random Word to provoke a reaction from the brain.

"Chances come to everyone but not everyone see it because they not have the knowledge."
"Chances only come to the people who have knowledge."
"Without knowledge we wont find the chances"

We always have our motivation,just like a donkey have a carrot to make it move.

The carrot of us maybe is money,or anythings.

...but how we get away from the carrot?

 @ When to use it

..Use it to stimulate open and divergent thinking and seek creative new ideas.

..Use it to re-ignite creative thinking when you are running out of ideas.

..Use it to get people out of a rut when their thinking is still rather conventional.

-[http://creatingminds.org/tools/random_words.htm]

@ How to use it

1. Find a random word

- Find a random word that will be used as a stimulus for new ideas. You can do this in a number of ways, including:

• Look around you. What can you see? Can you see any words? What about things? What else is happening?
• Open a book at a random page. Run your finger around the page and stop at a random point. Look for a suitable word near your finger.
• Ask the people you are with to give you a random word.
• Select a word from a prepared list of evocative words (fire, child, brick, sausage, etc.)

Good random words are (a) evocative and (b) nothing to do with the problem being considered. Ambiguity also helps. Nouns are usually best, but verbs and adjectives can also be used effectively.

2. Find associations

- Think about other things about which the word reminds you. Follow associations to see where they go.
- Think openly: associations can be vague and tenuous (this is creativity, not an exam!).

- When working with a group of people, you can write these down on a flipchart as people call them out. It can be useful (but not necessary) to leave a space after each associate for use in stage 3.

3. Use the associations to create new ideas

- Now create new ideas by linking any of the associations with your problem. Again, the linkage can be as vague as you like: what you want is ideas!

- Write the ideas either next to their associations from step 2 or on a separate page.

- If other people give ideas that trigger further ideas from you, then you can go off down that route to see where it goes.

- As a variant, you can do stages 2 and 3 together, finding an association and an immediate idea from this.

Example : 

How to make a person to stop smoking in 6 months time?

Random word : Traffic Light

What will you think of when you saw a traffic light?

- Colour

- Price

- Thin

- Awareness

Association : 

Colour : We can use colors to indicate dangers. The red colour indicate most danger follow by yellow colour and green colour.While the smokers see the colours he/she will think about the dangers he/she will face and slowly stop smoking.

Price : We can increase the price of amercement not the cigarette price so when they smoke in the non smoking area they will get the high price amerce.

Thin : Make the cigarette's material become thin so the smoker will become weariness to smoke.

Awareness: Create an awareness image on the cigarette skin and show that smoking will not make people become slim and yet it will make our lungs to become dark and also ugly .

Conclusion : So, people won't buy it if the colour of the cigarette's smoke is in colour and they won't be taking risk to do that .

Exercise : How merges go wrong ??

Merge 2 animal pictures become an impossible picture. 

Choose two different animals, combine and merge their characteristic together to make an new animal that people didn't see it before. Draw a picture for it. The chosen animals must be the animals that can't live when they stay together. 

Exercise : Mortal and Pestle.

What is Mortal and Pestle ?

A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind, and mix solid substances (trituration). The pestle is a heavy bat-shaped object, the end of which is used for crushing and grinding. The mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, ceramic or stone. The substance to be ground is placed in the mortar and ground, crushed or mixed with the pestle.

Exercise : 

Imagine that you are people from year 200010 and you had found this mortal and pestle. Try to figure out what is it use for in the year 2010 in a creative way. Choose three words in the mind map below randomly and draw your own mind map of it .

Here are my answer :

The three words I choose is Music, $$$ and Married.

Overall Sketches.

Mortal and Pestle as Music- Drum set.

People using this to create music, sound, noise that delight to our ears. Such as Rock Music.

Mortal and Pestle as $$$- Money/ Treasure

People hunt, dig, find, seek this Legend Mortal and Pestle that make of GOLD left thousands centuries before. This worth lots of money, very precious, and rare.

Mortal and Pestle as Married- Icon to purpose.

Young couples using this special Crystal Mortal and Pestle to purpose to opposite side. As an icon to marriage. Comes with different patterns, size, and colors.

In class exercise : Mind map about friend.

We had been asking to draw a mind map for our friend next to us in class and we had been told to create a avatar for the friend chosen based on the mind map created. Here is my avatar drew by Jason Wong.

Exercise : Juxtaposition.

In the class activity,we do an activity called as Juxtaposition.Well,it is something like provebs,it kind of fun though,we were shown by Mr Radzi a simple mix and match number and words like below :

1. Flower <------------> 0. Head
2. Lightning <--------------> 9. Rain
3. Ice <--------------> 8. Wood
4. Light <--------------> 7. Tree
5. Fire <--------------> 6. spider
6. Duck <--------------> 5. Root
7. Dog <--------------> 4. Mountain
8. Oil <--------------> 3. Wind
9. Leave <--------------> 2. Rock
0. Fly <--------------> 1. Water

And i have choose the number 58 , 14 and 39.Then we were asked to combined both of the words and i get
[ FIRE WOOD // FLOWER MOUNTAIN // ICE RAIN ]

Exercise 1 and 2 :

- Create a sentence based on the word chosen.Then create an image for the sentences written.

This is what I came out with,

1.There is a big fire in the wood.
2.She is so beautiful like a flower living in a mountain.
3.Ice cubes started to fall like a rain.

Exercise 3 :

- Create a new word by combining the 2 words together.

Example : Fire + Wood = Firewood

Then, Create an image for each new words.

[ FIREWOOD // FLOWERMOUNTAIN // ICERAIN ]

Exercise : Analogy

Mortal and Pestle Vs Man and Women

When man,

enters woman,

like the Pestle biting the Mortal,

again and again.

and they will

never again be separate.

Chilli Vs Love

You are red, You are hot,

Your every bites makes me explode like a fireworks,

You brings terror to most but brings me ecstasy. 

Time Vs Life

Every second, every minute,

slip through silently,

Every day, every week,

what have we done meaningful so far? 

Ice cream Vs Pain

Every time I have you, I feel so sweat,

You are so temptation, you are so attractive,

Every time I have you too much,

You makes my teeth and gums in pain.

Lesson Five and Six : Juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition.By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or tranfer meaning. Usually 'turning' something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa.


DEFINITION OF JUXTAPOSITION
A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as a juxtaposition of words. The act of juxtaposing is to place two objects or word next to each other.


When 2 things put side by side, your brain try to figure what is the relationship between these 2? What automatically happens is that there is tranference of meaning.


Usually from something familiar to something less familiar.


VISUAL PUNS
Creating an artwork in which several visual form which look alike are connected and combined so as to bring out 2 or more possible meaningful. Visual puns are lower version of visual metaphor


METAPHOR
In a figure of speech in which 2 different things are linked by some similarity. Comparison that are obviously are not consider metaphor. Therefore, metaphor occur, when 2 different ideas are being connected in imagination and agreed to be dissimalarity at first


SIMILES
Using as/like


Example : Life is like cooking. It all depends on what you add and how you mix it. sometimes you follow the recipe and at other times, you are creative. Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.


ANALOGY
2 or more things agree in some respects.
is a comparison of things that are essential dissimalarity but are shown throught the analogy to have some simililarity.A form of logical inference or an instance of it, based on the assumption that if 2 things are known tobe alike in some respects then they must be alike in other aspects.

Analogies :

-Logical analogies

[eg. A bird can compared to an aeroplane because both can move on air]

- Affective analogies

[eg. the Constructive worker are Hardworking as ant.]

Below are some pictures that showing juxtaposition :

Lesson Three : Creative Thinking.

What is A Mind Map?

•       A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.
•      The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information.
•       Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories. By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks.
•      Though the branches of a mind map represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues.
•      This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

Refference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Ten techniques for mind mapping from Tony Buzan

• Start in the center with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colors.
• Use images, symbols, codes, and dimensions throughout your Mind Map.
• Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.
• Each word/image is best alone and sitting on its own line.
• The lines should be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and flowing, becoming thinner as they radiate out from the centre.
• Make the lines the same length as the word/image they support.
• Use multiple colors throughout the Mind Map, for visual stimulation and also to encode or group.
• Develop your own personal style of Mind Mapping.
• Use emphasis and show associations in your Mind Map.
• Keep the Mind Map clear by using radial hierarchy, numerical order or outlines to embrace your branches. 
  
  
  More details explanation about mind map : 
  
  
  A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.
  
  The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.
  By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.
  The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map]
  
  
  Mind Maps are also useful for:
  ·      Summarizing information.
  ·      Consolidating information from different research sources.
  ·      Thinking through complex problems.
  ·       Presenting information in a format that shows the overall structure of your subject.
   [http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm]
  
  
  How to do mind map?
  
  - Use just keywords or wherever possible images
  - Start from the center of the page and work out.
  - Make the center a clear and strong visual image that depicts the general theme of the map
  - Create sub-centers for sub-themes
  - Put keywords on lines
  - Use arrows, icons or other visual aids to show links between different elements
  - Be creative. Creativity aids memory
  Improve your mind map:
  
  - Use single words or simple phrase for information
  - Print words
  - Use color to separate different ideas
  - Use symbols and images
  - Using cross-linkages
  
  [Information gets from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map, http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm, http://www.peterrussell.com/MindMaps/HowTo.php]
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  Method Creative Thinking: Logical and Associated mind map Technique
  
  
  Logical Mind Map : Logical Mind Map is directly connected to stereotypes. The Logical mind map comprises of solely stereotype words. This means that every word or image that is put within the mind map is directly related to the central subject through its links. 
  
  
  Associated Mind Map : Associated Mind Map is using an associated mind map we are able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection. 
  
  
  Logical Mind Map and Stereotypes 
  
  
  Definition of Stereotypes: 
  ·        A conventional, formulae, and oversimplified conception, opinion or image.
  ·        A stereotype is a commonly held popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes]
  ·        Stereotypes are characteristics ascribed to groups of people involving gender, race, national origin and other factors. These characteristics tend to be oversimplifications of the groups involved, however. for examples, Asians tend to look high on Caucasians. Stereotyping is also a form of prejudice that can form damaging images of people because of a particular characteristic without having any knowledge of the person such as how people tend to believe that Middle Eastern people are terrorists and should be feared.
  ·        Stereotypes are sometimes logical and can be true. Some people uses it to remind their kids to be a better person. Stereotypes even help people to be aware over something. Like for example don't trust any gypsies.
  ·        Stereotypes are commonly seen in media presentation. It usually labels one group or community to a specific characteristic. Most of the stereotypes are negative. In other word, criticize the whole group or community. Therefore, the whole world will label that community because of the stereotype media.
  ·        Stereotype media can label a community to a positive (e.g. tall men are good in basketball) or negative (e.g. female drivers are bad drivers) characteristic. It creates an identity to a community. Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by painting all members of a group with the same brush.
  "In literature and art, stereotypes are clichéd or predictable characters or situations. Throughout history, storytellers have drawn from stereotypical characters and situations, in order to connect the audience with new tales immediately." quote from Wikipedia.
  
  In order to connect with the audience, most of the storytellers characterize the character according to the history or the implant of characteristic about the certain community. Therefore, the judgement about the community will be deeper and deeper.

  
  

  ------------------------------- [ Here is another creative mind map ] -------------------------------