Monday, September 17, 2012

Leung - Reading #2

Once again, I found myself reading through fifty pages of information without putting down the book. Lupton upholds the same standard of excellence that was found in the first chapter, but further reinforces the brainstorming strategies that were presented. For me, the progression from verbal ideation to visual creation opened up new outlets of creativity. I've infrequently doodled for projects, but after seeing the strategies shown in the case studies for visual brain dumping, forced connections, and rhetorical figures; I find myself wanting to stay on a daily regiment of creation and illustration.

What I liked most about this chapter is that after Lupton gives the reader these ever-crucial strategies, there is not a focus on what the individual artist needs to do. The book transitions straight into the subject of collaboration and I really could not have been happier. Perhaps it's only because I'm a second year transfer student, but I feel there is a lack of collaborative design projects in classes. So while reading this section I found it incredibly refreshing to see how collaboration could be successful and rewarding for all participating artists. 

2 comments:

  1. I totally agree, that the content in this chapter is just as impressive as the first. Honestly reading this book doesn’t really feel like reading a book… What I mean by that is most if not all of us in this class are very happy and excited about the content in this book, I am not usually 100% for reading. But I am glad that we are all taking a liking to the book.

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  2. I have also found that there are not a lot of collaboration projects in the classes that we take. At first I liked this because I find that one person seems to always become the ring leader and create most of the ideas and designs in the work and some people tend to slack and not offer up many ideas, so most of the time I would have preffered to work alone. However after reading this chapter I have found that collaboration work can be successful and I am excited to start exploring it.

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