Brief: Use one or more of the following book related sayings as a starting point to generate visual ideas and responses:
- Bookworms
- A closed/open book
- The oldest trick in the book
- You can’t judge a book by its cover
- In someone’s good/bad books
- By the book
During this early formative stage, aim to be as wide-ranging and imaginative as possible in your ideas. ALL ideas are valid at this point, so don’t censor; this is not the stage to decide what is a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ idea – at this point they are all just ‘ideas’ with equal merit. Let one idea flow fluidly, intuitively and organically into another to make unexpected links and associations. Record your thought process and ideas using thumbnail sketches, spider grams and annotations.
Design 1
Chosen Book Related Saying : A Closed Book
The phrase ‘A closed book’ can be one of two;
- Something or someone that is very difficult to understand
- Something that you accept has completely ended
Examples of both of these could be A) “She’s very reserved, she’s a closed book.” – or – B) “As far as I’m concerned, my relationship is now a closed book.”
I started off by creating a mind map for ‘A Closed Book’. I didn’t feel I had many connections other than personal traits, but this is the phase I am concentrating on rather than that of ‘accepting that something has ended’.
After creating my mind map I went to my sketchpad to see what sketches I could come up with.
Reflection
I was pleased that I managed to complete this exercise within the aimed 45min time slot, as I usually end up spending more time then needed on small activities. Out of my sketches I like the hand on the book design, and the play on words design of the college of open books.
Design 2
Half way through exercise 5 I wanted to explore a different phrase just to weigh out my options in producing a successful design, this may also make me look differently at the design ideas I currently have for ‘A closed book’. I thought it would be more organised to place the ideas here rather than placing it half way through the following exercise.
The phrase I have decided to look at is: Bookworms
Bookworm: A bookworm is somebody who loves to read, wether they do it for fun or read lots for studying purposes. A bookworm is also the general name for any insect that is said to bore through books.
If you love to read books, you may have been called a ‘bookworm’. The origin of the idiom “bookworm” probably originated as a somewhat derogatory term for a person who studied or read more than was usual. Bugs such as silverfish, book lice, and linoleum beetles were referred to as bookworms because they inhabited books; thus the idiom. Example of use: “She is such a bookworm! She seems to have a new book every day!” (https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/phrases/bookworm/#.XkqS7pP7TOQ).
I started off by creating a mind map, I felt the ideas flowed for this phrase much quicker than it did for the previous phrase (a closed book).
I then went to my sketchbook to see what thumb nail designs I could come up with.
Reflection: I feel that the designs for this phrase may consist of more illustration style designs rather than the photography style of which is mainly what ‘a closed book’ designs consist of. Im glad I decided to test out another phrase to see what other ideas I could come up with.
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