Creativity Week 2

 Last week in class we got into groups and tried several different creativity exercises, a few were really challenging and some were fun to try out. For this week of creativity I wanted to write about those handful of challenges and what I took away from them!

The first exercise we did in class involved our names, we sat with no talking and did a series of different prompts, for example, writing your name upside down, reversed, reversed upside down, and then similar prompts but with the left hand, as we went through and did these prompts it seemed as if it had only been a few minutes when in reality it had been closer to about 20. It was explained that in doing this your activation the other side of your brain, which typically focuses on creatives an not so much on time, or the things around you, while locked into the project sounds around me also went away. I enjoyed this project both cause it taught me a few things but also cause it was a good practice on perspective and hand lettering things, which came as a surprise for me. Writing my name in a "mirror" version really made me have to think about what it would look like if I held my name up to an actual mirror. Id like to practice this exercise again, but I'm curious how things would differ if I were to do it digitally.

The next few exercises were done from LinkedIn Learning- these sets of prompts required us to get into groups and to brainstorm with one another. The first and last prompts were the same, asking us to create a list of different toys that could be used in a themed cereal. In this it helped us communicate with one another and build off of each others idea, the instructor in the video also explained how when a group brainstorms, they almost always come across a point in the session where they plateau in ideas, and resurge the motivation again after saying something absurd, to get ideas moving again. The first session asked us to create a toy for a Cowboy themed cereal, in which me and my partner only came up with about 11 ideas, and for the last one, which was a similar prompt, asking us to make a toy for a Pirate themed kids meal, in the latter half of the prompt we were able to make a few more than our last session, coming up with about 19. This was helpful to me in terms of art block, sometimes ideas simply do not come up, but using what this guy taught us, maybe now I can find easier motivation to surge ideas.

(I unfortunately do not have the photos from this exercise)