Developing fluency into ideas..

Developing fluency into ideas is creating a range of ideas, then re-assigning them into sub categories, allowing you to observe another range of ideas. This broadens our thinking process and gives us a broader field in which to choose from the main theme. Some ways in which people can use to expand on ideas is by brainstorming, mind mapping, sketching etc.

Here are a few of my brainstorms which I have created over the past few years. They are very different from each other. Some consist of visual notations and others consist largely on written brainstorms. Yet they, are also different as some are written by hand, some with little visuals, and others are created on the computer; some consist of a variety of bright colouring, others being black and white; all creating very different impacts yet still generate more information for my main project headings.

A good example of fluency in ideas would be any character design, for example the famous Walt Disney’s Mickey mouse character, there are a variety of different variations of Mickey mouse with ranges of emotions, movements, posture, gestures etc, yet all interlinked. All designs going through a range of thinking processes and holding unique features.

More images here: http://marciodisneyillusionoflife.blogspot.com/2011/08/mickey-mouse-sketches.html

There are also other illustrators which develop fluency into ideas, in terms of having their own language, a unique style yet keeping consistent and apply a different message into each of their pieces; creating new visuals. They stimulate different possibilities from one starting point.

For example: Oscar Wilson, a very famous illustrator creating a unique and iconic fluency to his illustrations. They all are approached with the same strategic style yet all create such stunning textual illustrations for his commissioned and private works. His speciality is hand crafted typographical approaches of creating an image, very informative and pleasing to the eye. He has a consistent style; yet inspiration allows him to create innovative new images

View more of his works a : http://www.studiooscar.com/docs/work.php