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Project 1: Brand Creation
1. ResearchÂ
2. USP
Ordinary spice companies donât guarantee that their product is authentic, organic, and sourced in the most sustainable way possible. At Cut & Dried Spice Company, we make sure you know where your herbs & spices are coming from by putting the farm it came from right on the labelâno secrets. We also offer a much-needed service as your kitchen assistant by listing recommended foods to go with each spice on the packaging. Youâll never have to wonder, âHow should I flavor this dish?â ever again.
3. Brand Story
Here at Cut & Dried Spice Company, we believe in being honest and to the point. We want our customers to know exactly what theyâre gettingâno fillers, cut and dry. Our brand is for chefs from all backgrounds, skill levels, and ages. Our sustainably packaged herbs & spices come equipped with all the information you need to make your meals come to life. On every package we recommend flavors to go with different meats, vegetables, and other kitchen favorites. Think of our products as the kitchen assistant you never knew you needed. All of our ingredients come from 100% organic, fair-work farms. Look no further for your favorite, honest, premium herb & spice brand.
4. Thumbnails
In class, we chose from the thumbnails to come up with 3 digital roughs.
5. Roughs
I also paired different fonts with the chosen logo to see what was most successful.
I realized that the dots were too small so I scaled them up and changed the font from Futura to Bodoni.
6. Final
The colors chosen are found in nature and the colors of the actual star anise plant.
Creative Thinking
Thereâs so much variety and approaches in creative thinking that there isnât a wrong way of doing it; all creative thinkers use synthetic creative thinking, being able to come up with original ideas while being innovative. Mind mapping is a really good tool for bringing basically our whole brain onto a board or paper to show all our ideas; by combining both it allows us to narrow down our thoughts and ideas to pinpoint the concept weâre trying to deliver. We as creative thinkers dive into many forms of art which we can define as spontaneous art. Spontaneous art for myself and probably many others is a main key player in delivering our ideas and concepts into fruition; which this can also connect with problem finding. I personally keep a sketchbook in which I practice my drawing skill so that it wonât get rusty and in return it helps me pull my emotions onto an image. For creative thinkers drawing or sketching should be a basic skill to attain while other forms of art are a plus in skill growing and creative thinking. I know we have softwareâs that can execute perfectly clean images, but the feel differentiates completely; if we had to do everything by hand as it was before, hand skill would play a big role in our execution. Just as âPicasso used the process of painting to find inspiration and direction while painting; he didnât plan before he began paintingâ according to R. Keith Sawyer; this is true for most people when we just dive into any creative exercise it can help us formulate our concept. The next stage would be an oral presentation of our concept to a person or group of people in which they would hear you out and give feedback on the idea. By allowing ourselves to present our ideas and thoughts to someone else takes courage and practice since we always have a corner in our mind that tells us that our idea is not the best. By having a listener without giving any feedback until the end of the presentation, gives us practice in articulating our thoughts in a cohesive way that hopefully will make sense to the listener. The beauty of this tool is that if the receiver is not understanding what weâre trying to send, we either we need to work on our delivery of information or get their feedback in what needs to be improved for a clearer understanding. Having a different viewpoint through someone else is helpful and eye-opening at times, because we do tend to stare at our work for most of the time that we may overlook small or big details. Although honestly at times we are stubborn and feel that our original idea or stage of work is the best one and we just donât want to bend to any feedback given; or the opposite is wanting to fix and improve an idea or problem to the point that we want it to be so incredible that weâre not letting ourselves accept another direction. This leads to having flexibility in our concept thinking or job field since its beneficial to adjust in any given situation, but the challenging part is knowing when to let go of an idea or field that is not working for us, then we have made a bigger step in accepting change. As the text references âwhen youâre doing something unrelated to the design assignment, assuming youâve prepared, ideas may pop into your headâ. I agree with this quote; when Iâm not really trying or taking a break from a project, that those are usually the times that Iâll get the best ideas. In being out and about looking at articles or even talking with a person themselves, their characteristic inspires me at times into delivering that characteristic into a concept. Thereâs so much variety and approaches in creative thinking that there really isnât a wrong way of doing it; its just about being able to have the curiosity to learn and gain knowledge in improving our craftsmanship in what we deliver to the world.
Citation source:
Landa, Robin. Graphic Design Solutions. Cengage, 2019.
Creative thinking is significant to the design process. Iâm glad you stressed the importance of research and exploring all possible ideas. Personally, that is the hardest stage when starting a new project. For example, when word mapping, it is hard for me to just think of 20+ words that relate to another. However, in the end, it produces the most effective idea. I agree that the moment you come up with âthe oneâ can feel so rewarding, all the time you worked your brain was worth it. The creative thinking process is intensive, analytical, and time-consuming, but in the end, it is all worthwhile.
Are children born creative? Are they taught it? In other words, how much of a childâs creative thinking ability is nature, and how much of it is nurture? The answer, as Iâve gleaned from multiple academic studies on different variations of this issue, is nurture.Â
      Creativity in adults and children is typically analyzed through something called a Torrance Test. It is comprised of two parts, a verbal and a figural test. The Verbal test evaluates creativity on a verbal levelâŚ
and the Figural test asks participants to complete drawings and utilize their imaginationsâŚ
âŚusing cues like these:
     Using the Torrance Test, a 2019 Polish study by Dorota Jankowska and Maciej Karwowski found that children from higher socio-economic households had higher creative thinking ability at the start of a formal education (Kindergarten), but as the school year progressed the householdâs income had almost nothing to do with the rate at which a child adapted to and implemented taught creative thinking processes. A similar study regarding race and social class was conducted by Joseph Moreno and John Hogan in 1976. They came upon a similar conclusion, that education and environment effected a childâs creative thinking ability more than un-controllable factors such as race.
      I find that these results make me slightly uncomfortable. Itâs not that I believe low-income, non-white, uneducated parents canât produce creative children, what makes me uncomfortable is that the structure and resources required to promote creative thinking abilities are not made available to all children. Both of the studies above discussed the influence of quality education on childrenâs measurable creativity, which, unfortunately, is something that low-income neighborhoods and their surrounding schools do not typically have access to (because of tax-dependent funding). Matthew Lynch, an author for âThe Edvocateâ, expresses this sentiment in his article âPoverty and School Funding: Why Low-Income Students Often Sufferâ. In it, he laments the fact that Title I schools have been receiving less and less funding every year since 2010, meaning that low-income students are missing out on learning resources, which furthers the creative gap between low-income and high-income schools.
      Furthermore, Jankowska and Karwowski acknowledged that the key to higher creative thinking ability in pre-school aged children is ââŚboth autonomy and structureâ. From both personal and professional experience, autonomy and structure for a child are easier to achieve in a safe neighborhood, in a home that receives consistent and adequate income, and with at-least one parent or responsible caregiver available to the child at any given time. They also tied the number of books present in a home to a childâs Torrance Test score before being enrolled in formal schooling. This means that families with more disposable income and with educated adults in the home have a higher likelihood of sending a creative child into the school system.
      I believe that the keys to cultivating creativity and creative thinking abilities in children, both prior-to and during formal schooling, are resources and funding. To help shape the creative thinking abilities of children from low-income communities, please consider donating your new or gently used books.Â
I think that you captured the importance of creative thinking in young people very well. I like the fact that you used visual examples such as charts and tables. It is definitely true that schools lower income areas, do not encourage creativity as much simply because they don't have the funding. Their money goes towards sports or STEM programs, opposed to art programs. The importance of encouraging childrenâs creativity in school is imperative to their developing minds. It is a great idea to encourage readers to donate new or gently used books to these poorer communities.
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      The idea of design thinking is ever flexible, allowing viewpoints and concepts to grow into something that wasnât thought, initially. Additionally, these initial concepts continue to grow into more hypotheses that construct a field of stemming possibilities, thus creating an array of varying potential. Design thinking and implementing ideas have a limitless capacity of outcomes in the modern technological world we live and create in.
      Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the design company that popularized the term design thinking, states âDesign thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designerâs sensibility and methods to match peopleâs needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.â Designthinking.ideo.com, Brownâs primary engine, which drives this concept of design thinking, is people. Someone highlights an issue, and wants to transform it into a physical, useful, and innovative tool for other people. With design thinking constantly adapting to new technological ways of creating, there is a repetitive cycle of methods evolving to feasible, viable and desirable conclusions. This ever-evolving process implements, empathizes, defines, ideates, prototypes, and tests the concepts that are presented.
      A designerâs mindset is creative and innovative, taking action and bestowing solutions, rather than focusing solely on a problem. This thought process requires imagination, intuitiveness, and thinking logically or illogically, outside of the box for the end user to deem the outcome diverse and beneficial. Imagination is a key characteristic to jumpstarting the design thought-process. The next step after implementing a vision is to empathize; consequently researching the user target and listing ideas that would become a successful solution. After researching and brainstorming, definition and ideation of the concept are up next; integrating and finding the problem while generating value-added, unique, and even off-the-wall ideas, which seem cohesive to the end userâs benefit. Thereafter ideation and narrowing down the best concepts, creating many different physical prototypes and versions of the designs is when the user and designer hone in on the most desirable and viable compositions.  Analysis and feedback stem from created designs and eventually, the ideas evolve into the development cycle to be updated and restructured. It is important to keep in mind that design thinking is constantly changing the way people judge a design as successful, thus creating a time for criticism and innovative thinking, which is detrimental to improving a prototype.
      Inspiration, implementation, and ideation consistently bounce off of each other, thus spawning new ways to make a completed design even better than it was before. There are many examples of this modern concept; the progression of large wired telephones to computerized cellular phones in the palm of our hands, or the advancement of the first Apple Macintosh computer to the slim, lightweight MacBook Air that one may take with them anywhere they go.
      The concept of ice making was also a major design thinking resolution; a couple men in the late 1800s cut blocks of ice during the winter and brought it to the consumers who wanted it. Thirty years later, the idea of innovation was to create a factory that produced ice in any season and having an iceman deliver it. Another thirty years go by and the prototype of ice making is implemented into homes through refrigeration, creating easy access for everyone through their personal ice machines. This improvement of an initial idea is a perfect example of the way design thinking continues to improve consumer feasibility and accessibility.
      In conclusion, learning by doing is critical in the process of design thinking.  A concept or physical prototype must be tested and critiqued in order for improvement to be achieved, therefor evolving an idea into itâs greatest potential.
      The first prototype of a concept is most likely not going to be the end result or final product of the design, thus creating a problem or challenge to revise. There are always new varieties and styles that are created because of the critiques provided in the initial product presentation. The act of design thinking is to continuously create and conceptualize without being fearful of the next great innovative improvement. Keeping people at the center of every process, and arriving at optimal solutions that meet customer needs, is the key to success.
I think you explained the design thinking process very well. It takes time and having an open mind. While in the ideate stage, the designer must make sure they explore all their ideas in this stage, writing down anything that comes to mind. From there, it is important to expand on multiple of those words/phrases to give yourself many choices later when you are narrowing it down to the few best ideas. As designers, we have a social responsibility to find balance and harmony in the world. How we design accentuates our understanding of that balance and harmony.

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HumanâCentered Design
When researching human centered design and the thought of creative origination, I came across David Kelleyâs belief that creativity lies within anyone and everyone. Kelley is the founder of IDEO, a community of designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, teachers, researchers, and more. In his younger years, he went to a psychologist (Dr. Bandura) at Stanford where he discovered the thought process behind phobias and the confidence to overcome them. Bandura presented a concept to Kelley known as âselfâefficacyâ: âthe belief in oneâs capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations.â In other words, selfâefficacy is a personâs belief in his or her ability to succeed in a particular situation. Bandura described these beliefs as determinants of how people think, behave, and feel.
For wanting to work in a creative environment surrounded by people he liked, Kelley created IDEO, and made a commitment to making great things happen in the world. His passion is to âhelp unlock creative confidence in everyone from students to business executives.â He is a jack-of-all-trades; he received his masters in engineering as well as product design, and was awarded an honorary recognition that âdistinguishes contribution to design education.â
After reading articles about Kelley and his accomplishments, his ideas about design thinking and human-centered design cannot go unnoticed. His communities of designers in multiple places around the world focus on helping their clients and partners at the individual, organizational, and societal level. They assist clients by building their creative capacity and ability to grow, adapt, and routinely innovate. Humanâcentered design is a large contributor to the process of innovative advancements in our modern world, and a quote from IDEOâs website that draws my attention is that âyou can move forward faster if you take a look back.â Meaning, we advance in the design world by looking back at previous concepts and constantly push the idea that they can always be evolved into something better than before.
As humans, we always want more, or the next big thingâthis is where the designers come into play and reflect on whether something needs to be revisited. As the technology of the modern world continues to be ever-advancing, human needs seem to accelerate. Therefore, complex problems are best solved collaboratively. âEven as our methods evolve in response to new, complex challenges, weâre always designing solutions for people first. Weâre building to learn, and learning as we build, through inspiration, ideation, collaboration and implementation.â Nevertheless, we must not forget how important the past is helping us shape the intention for the future.
Kelley, David, and Tom Kelley. âCreative Confidence.â IDEO Is a Global Design and Innovation Company., Oct. 2013, www.ideo.com/post/creative-confidence.
Tillman, Ashley, and Chelsea Takamine. âOpen Reflections: Looking Back on a Year of Impact.â OpenIDEO, 2017, www.openideo.com/content/open-reflections-2017.
Cherry, Kendra. âHow Self Efficacy Helps You Achieve Your Goals.â Verywell Mind, Verywell Mind, 7 Oct. 2019, www.verywellmind.com/what-is-self-efficacy-2795954.
IDEO. âAbout IDEO.â Our Story, Who We Are, How We Work, 2019, www.ideo.com/about.
Your essay conveys the importance of human centered design perfectly. The use of examples in the real world really helps the reader understand the concept more clearly. You also stress the importance of the designer thinking like a customer by switching roles in order to get more insight. I think more designers really need to include this step because it is imperative to their design process. Another step in the process people overlook is feedback. It is vital that the designer is gaining opinions on the product they are producing. Using the example of Kelleyâs client also provides proof that this process works.
Design Writing 2
Sydney Sokora
ARTC 1302
Professor Kim
November 15, 2019
The Importance of Human Centered Design
     Human centered designers think differently. They solve problems uniquely. This process involves many trials, many errors, and lots of room for not knowing the solution to the problem. It requires patience, optimism, and willingness to push the boundaries of comfort. The process of human centered design includes three main phases: Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation (The Field GuideâŚ). Â
     In the first stage, Inspiration, the designer will observe various aspects of people: how they live, their desires, how they interact with others, and any other characteristics that might help lead them to a solution for their problem. Nailing down exactly what problem they want to solve as well as completing any research needed is necessary in this stage. The designer should begin to interview individuals and groups in the appropriate communities, gathering information about them and how they might be able to help them. Interviewing will give them a better understanding of this group, how they think and things they want. Once youâve gathered in-field research, the designer should define their audience and then immerse themselves in their communities, learning to think like them. After organizing their research, the designer is ready to move on to the next stage in the process: Ideation.
     In the Ideation stage, the designer will start to ask questions like âWhat can I take from my research?â âHow do I begin to implement my ideas into an actual design?â and âHow do I know my idea is effective?â Ideation is a challenging phase in the design process, therefore, creating a list of their top five solutions might help narrow the designerâs thinking and maybe even spark new ideas when discussing the list with teammates. Sorting through ideas and categorizing them by themes and patterns can help them to better understand the research. If there are any ideas the designer has a good feeling about, they should follow that feeling and explore that idea further, so that they can either eliminate it or take it to the next stage. The designer should encourage their team to brainstorm a plethora of innovative ideas, no matter how wild or unattainable they seem. Brainstorming this way ensures that you come up with the best possible idea. Next, they should come up with a concept that they can perfect and push onward to the last stage: Implementation.
     In the last stage, Implementation, the designer explores whatâs next, how theyâre going to bring their concept to life, and making sure their solution is working. First, they should consider using a Live Prototype, where they get the chance to test their product in the real world, only for a few weeks (The Field GuideâŚ). They should ensure they have a plan for getting their product to market and how they are going to present it to the public. It is also important to build connections through networking. Creating a funding strategy will also help plan for spending and expenses. Now that theyâve implemented a Live Prototype, they should produce a Pilot product to test for a longer-term (The Field GuideâŚ). The last and final step is to connect with funders and go to market.
Works Cited
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design. Design Kit, 2015.
For this assignment, I took photos around the Bouldin Creek area of Austin. I chose to manipulate a photo of the Bouldin Creek CafĂŠ sign. I manipulated and emphasized the word âbreakfast,â creating a hierarchy of type. I used other aspects from the sign like the frog saying âfoodâ and the words âcaffeine dealerâ to create an interesting composition by leading your eye around the piece, starting with the arrow.
For this piece, I chose to represent the word pairing inside versus outside. Many wild animals ingest various kinds of litter from human activities and waste. In this piece, I depicted an ironic scene of a human throwing up all of this waste that animals ingest by accident because of human carelessness. I used to contrast by having the light-colored concrete behind the bright pink vomit. I also used perspective by shooting over the girlâs shoulder for a more interesting shot.
For this piece, the initials I chose to represent through objects were âSâ and âF.â For the âS,â I chose a seahorse, keeping the serif of the letterform in the design. The seahorse has a natural curve to it just like the âS.â For the âF,â I used a hammer and nail. The handle of the hammer serves as the stem of the letter. The head of the hammer and nail is represented as the top arm of the letter.

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With these pictograms, I aimed to create a sense of visual stimulation. By outlining each animal with its own shape, I utilized all of the positive and negative space. I used repetition and direction to create a sense of unity between each animal.
Design Writing 1
Sydney Sokora
ARTC 1302
Professor Kim
October 12, 2019
     Without design, where would we be as a society? Nowhere. Without design, we wouldnât have safe cars (air bags), an easy way to keep catalogs of items (bar codes), or a way to adhere things to one another (tape/glue). Our world would be unorganized, unsafe, and inconvenient. The people who generated these ideas used various processes such as creative thinking and design thinking to come up with these innovations.
     Creative thinking takes time. For some, ideas come easily with some focused thinking. For others, it takes a plan for creativity. In the book, The Art of Thought by Graham Wallas, the author delivers a four-stage process of creative thinking. The first stage is preparation. In this stage, your goal is to research and find out everything you can about your problem or topic (âCreative Thinking Processâ). Second, you let your brain fully process all the information you found in stage one through âincubationâ (âCreative Thinking Processâ). Illumination, the âAha momentâ, is stage three in the process. This idea appears when you are least expecting it and can give you an âemotional reaction of joyâ (âCreative Thinking Processâ). The final stage in the process is verification. In this stage, you want to evaluate, test, and hopefully verify the ideaâ that you received in the third stage. While this is not a fool proof way of generating ideas, it is very helpful for many of people when you feel like you might be stuck.
     Design thinking is similar to creative thinking in the way that they both require the person involved to explore all perspectives of the issue. However, design thinking is âa design methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problemsâ (Dam). Just like creative thinking, design thinking has a process. The first stage is to empathize. In this stage, you will be doing in-field research, meeting with experts in order to find out more about your problem. The goal is to immerse yourself in the environment, so you can empathize with people and be able to better appreciate their experiences (Dam). Secondly, you must âdefine the problemâ (Dam). Once youâve reached an understanding of your user, you will begin generating ideas in the third stage, ideate (Dam). In the fourth stage, the designer will create a prototype in order to experiment with the product and discover any adjustments that need to be made (Dam). Lastly, you will âtest the complete product using the best solutions identified during the prototyping phaseâ (Dam). The design thinking process is a very useful tool when trying to determine solutions to design related problems.
     Creative thinking and design thinking are responsible for some of the worldâs greatest inventions. These ways of processing information for a problem or issue have helped many understand what it is like to think like a creative designer. As a society, we will continue to come up with new ideas and innovations that help humans live simply.
âCreative Thinking Process.â The Peak Performance Center, thepeakperformancecenter.com/educational-learning/thinking/types-of-thinking-2/creative-thinking-process/.
Dam, Rikke, and Teo Siang. â5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process.â The Interaction Design Foundation, The Interaction Design Foundation, 26 Jan. 2019, www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/5-stages-in-the-design-thinking-process.
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10 Tips To Think More Creatively
1. Reframe The Problem or Phrase Question DifferentlyÂ
When we phrase a question or problem in a different light, we are more likely to find more solutions. We often look at things from a single angle preventing us from seeing all the possibilities. Some ways to think more creatively for this are  to phrase the question differently or to put the problems in a different scenario.Â
2. Avoid Logical Thinking
Logical thinking can prevent us from innovative thoughts, because when we think logically we only use what we know. Creative ideas are built from what we do not know. To facilitate this process, you can look for inspirations from music, arts or people. Or you can use your dreams to come up with solutions. Studies show that dreams help us problem solve and one advantage is that dreams do not follow logic, but instead give us insights.Â
3. Avoid Following RulesÂ
This point relates back to point 2, because we usually stick to rigid ideas or beliefs about how things work or should work. Instead, we should become more flexible and ask ourselves the question âwhat if?â What if we tried?Â
4. Avoid Being PracticalÂ
This point relates to the methods we use to problem solve. Sometimes, we tend to stick to one method and not try other ways. Instead, we should be trying to combine different ideas or methods together.Â
5. Try Not To Force Creative ThinkingÂ
We are often most creative when we do not try to be. Sometimes, ideas just come up to us through insights or unique experiences. Certain dreams are one of them, but we do not really control what we dream about.Â
6. Talk To OthersÂ
We often like to see ourselves as the experts and that we should come up with ideas alone. But truth is ideas usually comes from the outside. We get ideas from talking to people who may or may not be expert of your area but they bring to you their own knowledge and expertise.
7. Embrace AmbiguityÂ
Most problems are ambiguous and may not actually have a straightforward solution. But isnât it our goal to find a solution? To think creatively, we must accept that each problems are unique and that it will take time and creative effort to find a solution.Â
8. Embrace FailuresÂ
Not all great ideas work out. In fact, most innovations are failures at the start. You just have to keep working at it, find out what went wrong, and keep trying.Â
9. You Are CreativeÂ
You just need some inspiration. It helps if you are patient and explore different ideas. Often times, other ideas inspire us to come up with our own. Furthermore, know your own strength and values you can add to old ideas to make them creative.Â
10. Practice PracticeÂ
Being creative is also an art. You have to become self-aware of what makes you creative, when you are most creative, and what you are most creative at. Start paying attention to what youâre good at and start doing some work. Keep making something new everyday.
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