Week 3

Tasks/Homework for the Week

1. Go out and find an example of each type of analogy. Post these on your Blog.
1. Logical Analogies: Design, Function, Phenomena
2. Psychological Analogies: Sensory, Empathy, Symbolic/Metaphor, Fantasy.

This example is the bird. As we all know that it is impossible to fly like birds do. And how aeroplanes come about is because the trigger of the idea and what nature can offer to us the example. The aeroplane is actually an idea that came from the birds. Although it was invented way back early with alot of failures, with the help of technology, it made it possible to fly. Hence, the shape of the plane is the shape of somewhat a bird. And by using the shape, it minimizes the air resistance and wind in the sky. Using technology, the placement of engine and using forward motion that causes air to pass over its wings to generate lift. It includes jet engine and propeller driven vehicles propelled forward by thrust. Making planes, a convenient transportation to any other countries possible and faster.

Angel, Surreal

Maybe it is because of religion or that people have seen arts depicting angels having the look of a human bearing the wings that of a bird. But nobody actually knows they exist or not. In our logical minds, we would naturally think that it does not exist and it is surreal but to people of their beliefs, it exist without a doubt. And why is angels associated with human and bird? Because human itself is presented with God, and that they can fly, with wings and halo. It makes them look like they are superior beings and sort of a fantasy. The halo is the symbolic of the light, being divine, pure and innocent as that describes angels. The wings, being freedom.

2. Try out the Synectics 3R cycle, and create six of your own visual analogs from the two main analogy categories (Logical and Psychological), using any combinations of the Synectics Triggers. Try using a series of transformations within one analogy to transform an image further.

Bonus: Try organising, or arranging the elements into a Matrix format.

Illustrate these analogies into your Mistake Journal.

3. Get familiar with your own creative processes, and do a preliminary map of your creative process on paper. It may help you to refer to an actual project to map it out (perhaps from any of the CF Studio modules).
   
   
4. And Finally: Blog about what you learned from this lecture, on the overview of creative processes, Synectics and Analogies, as well as your quest for analogies. What did you learn from your Mind/Body Map? Can you begin to map out your creative process and see what works and doesn't work for you?

From this lecture, i've learnt that our thought patterns are actually acquired from our daily lives. Like what we see and what we are able to think and join them into. Molding things into something practical and ideas or concepts drawn to be impressed and seen. Things as we see would go into our subconcious mind making us to combine them together or to tear them apart to attach to something totally unrelated. This also helps to make something out of nothing, such is design. For me, ideas always come out of nowhere when i do things. I'm not a person who can think of good ideas when i usually need the most. When i can't find any ideas, i would always do the most usual thing and then start to venture out to things that i can combine and extract them from wherever i can.