Writing can be a powerful tool when you are creating visual projects. From initial notes and sketches to free writing and mind mapping, writing can help generate lively, lateral thinking. Writing helps to work through the process phase of a visual project, and can also serve as a reflective tool once a project is completed. The Writer’s Toolbox serves as a guide in using writing to enhance the creative process, both for visual and verbal projects. It presents approaches that use writing to generate ideas, support process, and reflect on finished work.
Mind Maps: it gives visual form to ideas. It helps initiate information that is pushing the limit of the concept that is being designed. Some mind maps can include color and images.
Concept Maps: Concept maps are similar to mind maps except that a concept map allows for a more thorough investigation and analysis of conceptual relationships and meanings. As well, they show relationships of concepts in a hierarchical order, from general to specific.
Freewriting: Freewriting is the process of writing down words that come to your head while ignoring the usual rules of typical writing. It is similar to a journal but it focuses on a specific subject. Overall, it may just be a simple question that the freewriting is focused on. Most successful free writes would be to write for 5 minutes straight without picking up your pencil.
Brainwriting: Brainwriting is the written equivalent of traditional brainstorming. It is used to develop new ideas for a project. Brainstorming is done in a group and it allows those less comfortable through speech to be able to write their ideas. A common template to follow is 6-3-5. Which is 6 people in a group each write 3 ideas for 5 minutes and each idea should be written as a complete, concise sentence.
Word Lists: The are concise, and the quickness in creating one allows a variety of associations to develop in a short time. Lists group words in distinct categories, and enable a divergency of ideas to occur.
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