ITAP Lecture 2: Development of Creative Thought and Structure in Illustration and Graphic Art (Principle 4: Developing Ideational Fluency)

In the process of creating ideas the lecture about Developing Ideational Fluency came in quite handy. It showed me that it doesn’t matter whether my ideas are good or useless or impossible to create in the very first stage my project. What matters is that I note down all the ideas I have, whether they are good or silly. They can be separated and thought about later. The fact that I would create many ideas is important as later I can evaluate them and see which ones can be used. Having many ideas helps me to make sure that I always have a “plan B” in case something doesn’t work out. Ideational fluency is about quantity and diversity of ideas, the quality doesn’t matter at this stage.

At the very beginning I have sat down and wrote down all the ideas for my magazine I could think off, having a little brainstorm wasn’t hard at all. Here is the page from my journal showing that:

There are only few ideas I thought of during the initial process of creating my magazine. Many of those ideas weren’t used, but nothing stopped me of noting them down. I could later pick the ideas I liked and explore them further.

During my ideas exploration I have found out the way I am working, and kept layouts similar for some of the pages in my journal because this was the way I like to keep myself organised. Photography is my chosen route within Visual Communication, my journal was mainly focused on it. I have stuck in photographs and wrote little annotation about them. I also looked at other artists’ work for some inspiration. Here’s the example of my journal pages. My journal have similar layout throughout, but it doesn’t mean it’s all the same, as I used some other pages towards exploration of materials and other ideas. There is a example of my work: