Mad for Metaphor: Sketching Complexity
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This document discusses using metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex ideas. It provides tips for finding visual metaphors in everyday objects and experiences. Examples are given of reinterpreting artwork, creating visual dictionaries, and playing visualization games with partners to spark creative and metaphorical thinking. The goal is to nurture skills in distilling concepts into simple visual or iconic representations.
Mad for Metaphor: Sketching Complexity
- 10. INSTANT ART GALLERY an artistic shot… a sketch… artwork you love… Show something from your camera roll you are proud of… (then hold up)
- 13. community Research Resources Cool Peeps Iconography Metaphor Shortology Data Viz Graphic Design Sketchnotes Photography Video Branding Activities bit.ly/imagED
- 20. from this…
- 21. Paul W. Hankins in the laundromat! to this…
- 22. workshop trailer
- 23. Gutenberg Parenthesis return to more visual/ oral
- 24. we talk in pictures
- 25. Images existed before words, and they do convey a sense of universality - artist Jean Julien
- 27. use metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex and abstract ideas
- 28. first symbols man created
- 29. Metaphor is about association + relationship “EYE-DEAS”
- 30. Metaphor is about association + relationship “EYE-CANDY”
- 31. Metaphor is about association + relationship making ideas “grow” better
- 33. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space” orson scott card
- 38. Sketch a…Sonnet
- 39. “The best way to learn a complex idea is to find it living inside something else you already understand… An amateur memorizes. A professional looks for metaphors” seth godin
- 40. I saw the angel in the marble… Michelangelo …and I carved to set it free
- 41. FINDING VISUAL METAPHORS in the MUNDANE
- 42. ornate / ordered star / support dichotomy
- 43. Porous Pedestrian: METAPHOR HUNT
- 44. same image can be used for many metaphors
- 46. Re-contextualize Artwork Museum Remix Paper 53 app
- 50. #oldandnew
- 53. Or pass camera roll to a friend and choose one of their photos
- 54. Find a metaphor for CHANGE on your camera roll OR in something in the room IMAGIPHOR https://flipgrid.com/1bc218 Think Pair Share
- 56. Making CONNECTIONS: Metaphorical Thinking TIPS and TRICKS
- 58. slow down
- 59. look up and down stuff your eyes with wonder Ray Bradbury
- 60. If You Can’t Stop, Walk
- 61. file it away
- 65. minimalist posters of a concept
- 66. minimalist posters of a concept
- 70. Get Your Metaphorical Mind On
- 71. 3 of Me https://flipgrid.com/e10d51 current life in 3 emoji CSI (colour / symbol/image of you) 3 of me (where I’ve been/ where I am/ where I’m headed)
- 73. Crowdsourced Visual Vocab create dictionary of iconography
- 76. Crowdsourced Visual Icon Dictionary - education - idea - technology - information - conflict - love - time - change - student - government - learning - imagine - travel - question - research/ curation - quote - food - success - earth/world/ global - school - team/group - camera - smartphone - problem - think - imagine - writing - drawing flipgrid.com/61a2f7
- 77. affective data
- 79. Kennings hyphenated compound metaphor Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature “northern kiss”= cold wind “whale-road” = the ocean “sky-candle”= sun
- 81. analogies game word bank of nouns seek connections (use like and as) visualize horse wind
- 82. Visual Kenning create a kenning … then sketch! ideas: natural phenomenon things in daily life
- 85. add corset ones
- 88. Serendipidoodle flipgrid.com/639bd7 bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer Use the given prompt slips or try to be metaphorical
- 90. Muchness and Suchness abstract concept viz based on letter *inspired by Lewis Carroll
- 91. Drawing Muchness Choose a letter. Think of abstract concepts beginning with that letter. Depict visually.
- 93. 3 sketches Use the + and = sign to illustrate the synthesis Sanburgian Synthesis
- 94. Sandburgian Synthesis Think of the elements that are a poetic synthesis. Make 3 sketches Use + and =
- 96. remix logo
- 97. sketchquotes
- 98. I just want to make beautiful things… even if nobody cares
- 100. #bowie #literalalphabet Playing with PUNS
- 102. Sketchquote Pun Play Google Remix Choose one (or more!) and try to visualize.
- 104. #needoji What words can’t express… wanderlust FOMO (fear of missing out) Woe is me… Having a Beyonce moment A-ha moment
- 105. “untranslatable” words SAUDADE (Portuguese) : longing feeling for something you’ve loved which is now lost IKTSUARPOK (Inuit) : go outside to check if anyone is coming PANA PO’O (Hawaiian) : scratch head in order to remember something you have forgotten
- 106. essentializing
- 108. David Ogilvy big ideas usually come as simple ideas
- 109. Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple
- 112. The way out of the box is via the shackles
- 113. @BryanMMathers
- 115. Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)
- 117. playing with type
- 120. Metaphorical Typography the lettering matches the mood or subject the word is describing Try with your name, your city or how you feel right now https://flipgrid.com/24dddf
- 126. One Word to Rule Them All your life right now your summer plans Distill something complex, such an experience or content knowledge, into a single word and augment using metaphorical typography and/or accompanying doodles https://flipgrid.com/a8611a
- 128. 4 icon challenge
- 129. icon challenge distill an event, film, song, or biography into 3-6 icons nounproject.com is a great source flipgrid.com/8a3720
- 130. Symbol Redesign
- 136. icon re-design: THE LOO design a new male / female/ non-gender specific icon for the restroom
- 141. Illustrate a concept/idea from your discipline MONDRIAN-IFY use simple geometric shapes and/or basic colors for symbolism https://flipgrid.com/74443b
- 143. Haikonography of “SPEAK” by L Halse Anderson Haikonography
- 144. Haikonography write a visual haiku using only icons Three lines: five icons / seven icons / five icons ***remix! Write each on index cards then mill around room and exchange …new poem! flipgrid.com/5f6992
- 147. Dichotomy Series : male/ female
- 150. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius
- 151. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius
- 152. picture VENNs
- 153. #oldandnew
- 154. Dichotomy OR Humourous Venn https://flipgrid.com/2ee88f Illustrate a dichotomy (try to let the image do most of the talking but you can contextualize with words) OR Create a humourous Venn diagram with images and labels
- 157. INSIGHT
- 158. How much coffee do you need? -Gwen Burvall, 10
- 160. 3 panel summary
- 161. MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS
- 162. Visualize a Series in a Theme (Values)
- 163. Theme: “Power of Books”
- 166. 3 Panel Summary Theme Grid In My Mind Illustrate a film, novel or process in 3 panels OR Create a grid depicting a theme such as Love is… / Summer is… OR sketch what’s in your mind
- 168. playing with stuff
- 174. Pareidolia REMIX: draw over existing landscape Paper 53 app
- 175. Re-contextualize Artwork Museum Remix Paper 53 app
- 177. Pareidolia Use the mundane things around you (or items in your bag) to create a whimsical illustration Seek patterns and make something out of nothing (a common one is to "see a face" in an inanimate thing) Feel free to use paper and markers to enhance the illusionhttps://flipgrid.com/18e0dd
- 179. OREO Challenge everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object) *if you need more you can partner with someone use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict either: (“advertise an idea”)
- 180. leave whole!
- 181. take apart cut in half
- 182. turn on side crumble
- 184. OREO Challenge Create a visual representation of a concept from the course using any available materials and a single Oreo cookie. Think of it as an advertisement of an idea. https://flipgrid.com/5a58a9
- 186. playing with others exquisite corpse / collaborative creativity
- 188. Visual verse volley
- 189. #hashtaggerie
- 190. idea! St. Pepper Sketch-a-Song Exquisite Corpse
- 191. volley snowball warm-up visualize a vocabulary term, whimsical hashtag or short poem offered by a peer write word then “throw” as a snowball create an icon or other visualization for the idea (try metaphorical thinking) flipgrid.com/1ea232
- 193. more ideas from my book:
- 194. Lewis Carroll chortle: chuckle + snort mimsy: miserable + flimsy portmanteaux phrankenword
- 195. https://flipgrid.com/707831 Phrankenword for the Summer…
- 196. 1 word + 3 image sketch note (reflect 1st day of school) #oodledoodle
- 197. Time?
- 200. Partner Portrait in 1 Line Practice mindfulness by attempting to draw with one continuous line Try drawing your friend's portrait this way Perhaps add a little message of encouragement and give them the portrait as a gift https://flipgrid.com/d112ea
- 202. *Henry Miller
- 204. your big takeaway a question your personal challenge https://flipgrid.com/152be8