1. Make marks using pencil and paper. (30s-1min)
2. Make marks, while consciously slowing yourself down. Focus your attention on listening to your breathing and watching your hand. (30s-1min)
3. For 1 min, pay attention to everything and note the sensations (eg hearing, seeing, feeling). After 1 min, make marks based on sensations that come to you. (2min)
4. Pick an object and draw it. (5min)
5. Pick an object and draw a tiny portion of it. (5min)
6. Pick an object. Draw to reveal the inner conditions of that object. (10min)
7. Make as many images as you can using only 4 pixels. (5min)
8. Make a 5cmx5cm square. Only draw straight lines inside the square. (5min)
9. Play music and draw in response to it. (5min)
10. Just draw. Imagine yourself as the universe drawing. (10min)
11. Pick one of your drawings, a good one that you respond to. 
1. Write down a physical description of the drawing. (5min)
2. Write down the feelings you get from the drawing. (5min)
3. Write down a story you made up based on the drawing. (5min)
4. Write down a symbolic story based on the drawing. (5min)

1. 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)
2. One line logo: Design a logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games formed from a single unbroken line. (30 min)
3. 5 Fonts: Create a brochure promoting the Slow Food movement using 5 or more unique fonts. (30 min)
4. 100 Sketches: Create 100 sketches of a packaging design for an affordable organic energy drink targeted at well-off twenty-year olds. (90 min)
5. Beautify: Design a beautiful book cover for a book about perceptions of beauty, titled "Beauty" by Jane Klingslaner. (60 min)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. Trompe l'oeil: Design a logo for the Global Magic Society, incorporating an optical illusion. (90 min)
9. 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)
10. Biodegradable: Pick an item you'd generally find in your backyard and redesign it so it could gracefully biodegrade. (120 min)
11. 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)
12. 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)

• Make the logo bigger
• Use purple as the anchor colour in your design
• Use circles in the background of your design
• Add twenty years to your target audience
• Tone it down. Make your design more conservative
• Spend only 20 min on your design
• Use illustration
• Cut the copy in half. Then cut it in half again.
• Use black and white only.
• Change the orientation of your design by 90 degrees

• Mindmapping
• Word listing
• Picture association
• Brute think (think of as many ideas as possible)
• Idea inversion
• Free form sketching
• Role playing
• Yes, and... (add on to the idea)
• Future thinking
• Blank bubbles (write dialogue in speech bubbles on how your audience/product may talk)

The 5 Chairs Exercise is a design-thinking challenge that teaches empathy and designing for human needs.

1. Pass out story cards, one per person. Story cards are based on 5 users:
1. Grandpa: Grandpa is an old man who is achy and grouchy. He has trouble getting around, so he walks with a cane. He also has difficulty getting into and out of his chair. He sits in his chair most of the day.
2. Jack: Jack is a high schooler who spends 8 hours a day in class. Most of the time, Ralph has to sit in uncomfortable chairs, sitting up and facing the front of the room. Ralph carries a large backpack. In class, he needs a place to put his stuff.
3. Jill: Jill is a 1 year old who loves to play and crawl around everywhere. Maggie likes to explore on her own and be independent while she sucks on her pacifier. When it’s time for her to sit still she gets whiny and squirmy.
4. Jacob: Jacob is an astronaut who travels to space. When he is in his space ship, he is in a weightless environment. This is a challenge when he needs to sit down for a drink. Neil also has a bulky space suit that often gets in the way.
5. Julie: Julie is a marathon runner who runs every single day. She hates being stationary, and because she exercises so much she has really sore muscles. It's important that her chair is very comfortable to help her relax and recover for her run the next day.
2. Each person should design a chair that:
1. Addresses 2 user needs based on their story card
2. Reflects their personal style as a designer
3. Create 5 iterations of your design using different materials:
1. Draw a chair
2. Make a chair out of cardboard
3. Make a chair out of pipe-cleaners
4. Make a chair out of clay
5. Make a chair out of tape and toothpicks
4. Each person shares their design with the group and gathers feedback:
1. Which chair do they like best?
2. Which chair do they like least?
3. What feature do they like best?
4. What feature do they like least?
5. What improvements can be made?
5. Based on feedback, each person should modify and design one final prototype using any materials available.
6. Each person shares their design with the group and gathers feedback again.

I love their use of pastel rainbow colours and the interactive style.
You can light up a bulb, snap photos on a Polaroid camera, and launch a rocket into the sky.
The whole website is so fun and whimsical.