| Two Dimensional Design | |||||
| First Project | |||||
| Description: | |||||
| Create ten different ways to display photographs. The conventional and professional method of presenting photos is to surround the image with a four inch white mat and frame the whole thing with a black frame. How many ways can you present a photo? Why can’t we be more creative? Put a photo in a baggie, paste it on a sheet of glass or put it in a glass cylinder like a vase. Visit a frame shop, Target or a gift shop to see different ways that photos can be framed. Think of ways that you would never see in a store. | |||||
| Find ten photos that you can work with. Come up with 100 ideas. Write them or draw them on post-its. Make a list. Organize the list into catagories. Rewrite the list. Think of materials and methods. Hang them on your refrigerator. Don't spend any money. Use found objects or materials. | |||||
| Pick ten ideas that can be materialized, presented, demonstrated or constructed. Start by brainstorming. Talk in a group. Make jokes. Be outlandish. Be simple. Be experimental. Be couragous. Look behind you. | |||||
| Hang them on a wall or set them on a table. How high off the table or how far off the wall? Set them on the floor or hang them from the ceiling. Sounds like Dr. Zeus! | |||||
| On Monday, June 2, bring your list of 100 ideas. Bring post-its with drawings of ten ideas. Bring three to six constructed ways of presenting photos—that is, present three to six of your ideas with real photos. But, this is merely a preliminary presentation. We will rethink and evaluate and represent on Wed. June 4. | |||||
| Objectives: | |||||
• discover your creative process • define creativity • experiment with materials • use research to stimulate ideas • practice brainstorming |
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