fTodd has 15 post(s)

My Response:

This activity was a lot of fun! I’ve never really created a mind map like this before but it really gets the brain flowing with unimaginable ideas! Its interesting how one word leads to another and how they branch off of each other. This is a cool concept and I think it will really help with other activities and predicts in the future while brainstorming! It also really shows how you think as an individual and how we all have our own ideas and way of thinking.

My Mind Map:

My 25 Pairs:

1. Yellow + Sunflower
2. Fall + Trees
3. Wood + Door
4. Metal + Arm
5. Blue + House
6. Pencil + Tip
7. Eyes + Green
8. World + Big
9. Leg + Long
10. Box + Wood
11. Spaghetti + Pencil
12. Soil + Body
13. Tool + House
14. Hand + Limbs
15. Taxi + Restaurant
16. Finger + Tool
17. World + Eyes
18. Body + Spaghetti
19. Sunflower + Hammer
20. Door + Eyes
21. Finger + Trees
22. Tree + Arm
23. Pencil + Trees
24. Nail + People
25. Finger + Pencil

My 10 Choices:

1. Tree + Leg: I thought this combination would be fun to draw because I could draw a leg somewhat like a tree stump and transform it into a tree and it would look interesting.
2. World +Box: This one was cool but simple because I just drew a box with the world inside of it but I wanted to make it look interesting.
3. Body + Spaghetti: I thought this one would be fun because I would just draw a person with a spaghetti-like body.
4. Door + Eyes: I just thought a door with eyes on it would look really mysterious and interesting…
5. Finger + Pencil: This one was somewhat similar to the Tree + Leg choice I did because I was simply just going to draw the tip of the finger and have it morph into the end of a pencil.
6. Metal + Arm: This one is boring because while I was creating the mind map I completely forgot the fact that I was drawing the thumbnails with sharpie and that you can’t see color or texture, which is why my mind map has so many colors and different elements on it.
7. Tool + House: I thought that a house made of tools would be interesting because you need tools to build a house, so a house made of tools would just be weird.
8. Sunflower + Hammer: I had the idea that I could have the hammer looking like it was about to hit something but have the flat part as the center of the sunflower.
9. Taxi + Restaurant: Just a taxi that looks like a restaurant. Nothing too cool.
10. Spaghetti + Pencil: I thought drawing a pencil that was all squiggly like spaghetti would be fun so that’s why I made that combination.

Thumbnails:

Response
This project was very enjoyable. Getting together with fellow classmates to create the mind-maps was fun and using the ideas generated from them to create thumbnails was a very fast way to generate decent ideas. The thumbnail sheet was very useful, a small space to draw in forces you to only focus on the important details of the image.

Mind-map

Tool Combos (red=the 10 combos I drew, blue=unused)

1. Clock + Eye — Grandfather clock with an eye instead of clock face, or an eye with a clock instead of cornea.
2. Diamonds + Dogs — Dogs with diamond strong teeth, or royal diamond dogs.
3. Sign + Pyramid
4. Trees + Fuel
5. Board + Flowers
6. Socks + Money
7. Cable + Plane
8. Football + Ella Fitzgerald
9. Feet + Shell
10. Ship + Coal
11. Cacti + Treasure
12. Cards + Gems — Cards made of gems or a card game using gems. Just a nice card game perhaps.
13. VHS + Earbuds
14. Ocean + Rock
15. Sun + Golf — I imagine super powerful deities would enjoy playing golf with the sun.
16. Chocolate + Wrench
17. Turkey + Car
18. Uniform + Grass — Thought of ghillie suits that snipers use. Also grass that is uniformly cut.
19. Smoke + Plane — Some sort of anti-smoking plane or plane made out of smoke.
20. Time + Shoes
21. Robot + Nukes — Basically just a badass super weapon. Robots are really fun to draw, but doing the thumbnails was hard.
22. Stereo + Headphones — Thought of headphones that play outwards rather than into your ears.
23. Bolts + Zipper
24. Headband + Hardhat — Would be very useless for actually protecting your head.
25. Bread + Chips — I’ve always wondered why there aren’t many bread flavored/shaped chips out there…

Favorite Thumbnails

Clock + Eye                                      Stereo + Headphones                              Smoke + Plane

My organized collection of images is in dropbox: GD_todd_gaunt –> ToolMontage –> Pictures

I have always been more of the artsy and creative type ever since I was little! It also happens to run in the family! I have always been told that I have an eye for detail and notice things most people would just walk by. I am not too sure what I want to do as a Graphic Design major but I picture myself living in the city when I graduate creating beautiful things! I also hope to do an internship out in LA.

Anyways, one area of Graphic Design that I found interesting is Advertising (logos). You see hundreds of logos every day without even realizing it! Logos are extremely important – yet so simple. Companies take great pride in their logos as they represent the company and this is how people recognize them! Such as Nike and Adidas, everyone knows of these logos as they are extremely popular all around the world. Logos are extremely essential so that they grab your attention and have you interested.

Another area of Graphic Design that I found interesting is Book Design. We often hear the phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover” – but lets be real, we all do. When there is a book with an amazing front cover, it catches your attention even if it is an awful book to read. Whereas a book with a terribly designed front cover could be an amazing book to read but it is not striking enough to catch the readers attention so they won’t even bother looking into it. If you are an author and you want your book to be marketable you should probably have a great cover design. That is why book design is so important!