Inklink Collective Unschool: November 2012

Friday, 9 November 2012

Ideation process : Inklink Whiteboard

At InkLink, I started this unschool whiteboard sessions to demystify and discuss various issues regarding design, art and creative thinking. I strongly believe, creativity should not be institutionalized and must reach all across globe. this very ideology instigated me to found InkLink. The unschool whiteboard sessions will be 'real life' sessions beyond class room. In next few slides, I will try to explain on how to ideate (a product / concept) from a tangible inspiration.(Kaustav Sengupta)

for example... lets take 'bird' as an inspiration... the three key elements that can be segregated and derived are : the 'look' of a bird, the 'function' of a bird and the other intangible elements such as 'social semiotics of a bird', the relationship patters, the concept of 'femininity' etc.

the 'look' can again be clustered into all these (and much more) elements... the beauty of curves, the colorful feathers, the bend of beacks etc.

the functions can be the 'flying' ability of a bird... the 'lightness' of a feather etc.

the social semiotics can be the way bird communicates with each other 'tweet' 'tweet' (yah... the twitter and its 140 characters...) the feminine curves of a swan etc.

or, even the key concepts can be converted into mythical characters...

the key elements can be interpreted and derived into product concepts... as shown here

Sunday, 4 November 2012

Inklink session : understanding inspiration and its application

lets learn a bit on how the basic inspirations can be implemented aesthetically. the example can be the flower blossom and its detailed representation (as referred below)

Flower Blossom: the inspiration

The applications:-

the concept of 'blossom' can be reflected in a product like this pouch or a bigger bag or some interesting bags.

it can be realistically explored into a dress

or in detailed dress...

Lady Gaga dress

in graffiti art

in Jewellery be it on ring or pendant...

in product display / VM (blossom arrangement of perfume bottles)

window display / VM

in accessories, shoes...

in greetings card..

in fashion head-gear..

in Architecture,interiors....(blossom house interiors)

in cushion cover print

in lampshade/ lights..direct silhouette implication

in furniture/ table..abstract blossom structure..

In short inspiration can be implemented through visual patterns,silhouettes,surfacing, prints ,abstractness or direct .

A welcome note from Inklink Admin team:

First of all ,thanks for stopping by Inklink Collective Unschool. If you’ve been a visitor for some time, you may witness of the evolution process of this Unschool. Our focus is on collaborative way of creativity ,sharing knowledges without any geographical parameters. The first ever SNS based " Unschool", InkLink is a free platform to learn / teach/ discuss various topics of sketches, illustrations, graphics, computer graphics, photography, fashion, styling and other visual expressions of art...linking creatives through ink:)
The admin team consists of 5 members ( i.e. Kaustav Sengupta, Ramya Raghavan, Prob Gyan ,Lily Sengupta and Laxmi Dineshkumar) with their respective credibility and contributions. We believe that the most important thing is to give back to the society its due. Thus, we are trying to give lessons (step by step) in illustrations to computer graphics to street photography (which is the toughest among photography) to fashion styling and so on, new products, wild ideas. controversial ideas for brain storming. All of these are intended to start new way of education ,conversations, and inspire new ideas in a new age way i.e.on cyber at social networking site (facebook, where conventionally people thinks spending time is a rather wastage of time, thus we morphed that place to be a learning place in an unschool way) fun learning in a collective way.