Love this exercise Adam! It’s interesting to think about drawing and design as a practice of developing intuition. The comparison to learning a new language is a great one. Tapping into intuition also helps unlock emotion and expressiveness—elements that I find more challenging to master coming from a graphic design background. In design school we focused so much on the grid—illustrations were just gray boxes that we used as placeholder when we flowed the text into layout. This exercise helps to create an open conversation between the two. The collage aspect is especially freeing because it feels like play.
Yes I can see why! I like the idea of reframing the entire creative process as simply having several fun and engaging conversations (between different characters, different moods, different visual elements, etc). The more I draw the more I think about the importance of contrast. Contrast is what sparks conversation!
Love this exercise Adam! It’s interesting to think about drawing and design as a practice of developing intuition. The comparison to learning a new language is a great one. Tapping into intuition also helps unlock emotion and expressiveness—elements that I find more challenging to master coming from a graphic design background. In design school we focused so much on the grid—illustrations were just gray boxes that we used as placeholder when we flowed the text into layout. This exercise helps to create an open conversation between the two. The collage aspect is especially freeing because it feels like play.
This conversation is my favorite part of the job!
Yes I can see why! I like the idea of reframing the entire creative process as simply having several fun and engaging conversations (between different characters, different moods, different visual elements, etc). The more I draw the more I think about the importance of contrast. Contrast is what sparks conversation!
Cool idea!! I just have to use Japanese newspaper😊
Nice!
Certainly going to try this out tomorrow Adam. Something about it really appeals to my love of text and order. Thank you for sharing this. 👍
Can’t wait to see what you do!
I’d like to play with this! Just need to find some newspapers and magazines somewhere
You could print the internet:)
Haha definitely could!
What a fantastic idea!