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Creative Challenges
July 23, 2017From Creative Workshop, by David Sherwin
Creative Challenges
- Personal branding: Spend 10 min answering the questions: What are my 3 strengths as a designer? What are my weaknesses? What's my favourite colour? What designers do I love? What design work do I enjoy? What type of work do I want to do in future? Then design a logo for yourself based on your responses. (30 min)
- One line logo: Design a logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games formed from a single unbroken line. (30 min)
- 5 Fonts: Create a brochure promoting the Slow Food movement using 5 or more unique fonts. (30 min)
- 100 Sketches: Create 100 sketches of a packaging design for an affordable organic energy drink targeted at well-off twenty-year olds. (90 min)
- Beautify: Design a beautiful book cover for a book about perceptions of beauty, titled "Beauty" by Jane Klingslaner. (60 min)
- Judge a book by its cover: Design a cover for a book you have never read before, without doing research on the book's content other than reading the back cover and inside flap. (60 min)
- Gender Neutral: Design a packaging for a single type of shaving cream three ways: for women, for men and in a gender-neutral fashion. All 3 packaging designs must be a cohesive line of products. (30 min)
- Trompe l'oeil: Design a logo for the Global Magic Society, incorporating an optical illusion. (90 min)
- Game of Sustainability: Create a simple game that teaches young children how to think about the natural resources they use as they go throughout the day. The game has to demonstrate principles of sustainability - by being eaten, recycled, composted or otherwise returned to the earth in the process of being played. (120 min)
- Biodegradable: Pick an item you'd generally find in your backyard and redesign it so it could gracefully biodegrade. (120 min)
- More is Less: Choose a product you regularly use in daily life and redesign/repackage it so consumers will want to use less of it. (90 min)
- Dish it out: Reinvent a dish/cup/bowl/glass for one extraordinary specific use. Don't aim for maximum utility. Instead, fulfil a need for dining ware you've always wanted, whether it's a plate designed to manage portions or a cup with a lemon squeezer included for lemon tea. Incorporate sustainable materials so your creation can return to the earth after its use. (120 min)
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