Mad for Metaphor: Sketching Complexity

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#MadforMetaphor: Sketching Complexity

@amyburvall @IntentionBook

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me, sketching

everywhere

aren’t we all?

caves at chauvet32-30,000 BP

venus of willendorf28-25,000

Instagram Art

INSTANT ART GALLERY

an artistic shot… a sketch…

artwork you love…

Show something from your camera roll

you are proud of…

(then hold up)

“Historyteachers” YouTube

communityResearch Resources Cool Peeps Iconography

Metaphor Shortology Data Viz

Graphic Design Sketchnotes Photography

Video Branding Activities

bit.ly/imagED

https://flipgrid.com/vizthink

upload video blogs

share on SM

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from this…

Paul W. Hankins in the laundromat!

to this…

workshop trailer

Gutenberg Parenthesis

return to more visual/ oral

we talk in pictures

Images existed before words, and they do convey a sense of universality

- artist Jean Julien

Power of the VISUAL

use metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex and abstract ideas

first symbols man created

Metaphor is about association + relationship

“EYE-DEAS”

Metaphor is about association + relationship

“EYE-CANDY”

Metaphor is about association + relationship

making ideas “grow” better

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth

in the least space”

orson scott card

metaphorical thinking

+iconography

Metaphorical Iconography

nurturing one’s network

“My-conography”

playing with media

“My-conography”

Sketch a…Sonnet

“The best way to learn a complex idea is to find it living inside something else

you already understand…

An amateur memorizes. A professional looks for metaphors”

seth godin

I saw the angelin the marble…

Michelangelo

…and I carved to set it free

FINDING VISUAL METAPHORS in the MUNDANE

ornate / ordered

star / support

dichotomy

Porous Pedestrian: METAPHOR HUNT

same image can be used for

many metaphors

Metaphors in Museums

Re-contextualize Artwork

Museum Remix

Paper 53 app

#oldandnew

Change?#imagiphor

Identify a change- related

metaphor

Or pass camera rollto a friend andchoose oneof their photos

Find a metaphor for CHANGE

on your camera roll

OR

in something in the roomIMAGIPHOR

https://flipgrid.com/1bc218

Think Pair Share

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Making CONNECTIONS:Metaphorical Thinking

TIPS and TRICKS

think thematically

slow down

look up and down

stuff your eyes with wonderRay Bradbury

If You Can’t Stop, Walk

file it away

weed or

wish?

MAKING VISUAL METAPHORS

visual metaphorfor

“eating disorder”

minimalist posters of a concept

minimalist posters of a concept

Get Your Metaphorical Mind On

3 of Me

https://flipgrid.com/e10d51

current life in 3 emoji

CSI (colour / symbol/image of you)

3 of me (where I’ve been/ where I am/

where I’m headed)

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CrowdsourcedVisual Vocab

create dictionary of iconography

CrowdsourcedVisual IconDictionary

- education - idea - technology - information - conflict - love - time - change - student - government - learning - imagine - travel - question

- research/curation

- quote - food - success - earth/world/

global - school - team/group - camera - smartphone - problem - think - imagine - writing - drawing

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affective data

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Kennings

hyphenated compound metaphor

Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature

“northern kiss”= cold wind

“whale-road” = the ocean

“sky-candle”= sun

analogies game

word bank of nounsseek connections (use like and as)

visualize

horse wind

Visual Kenning

create a kenning … then sketch!

ideas: natural phenomenon

things in daily life

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feline devastation

starlight fir

@serendipidoodle

add corset ones

Serendipidoodle

flipgrid.com/639bd7

bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer

Use the given prompt slips or

try to be metaphorical

Muchness and Suchnessabstract concept viz based on letter

*inspired by Lewis Carroll

Drawing Muchness

Choose a letter.

Think of abstract concepts beginning with that letter.

Depict visually.

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3 sketches

Use the + and = sign to illustrate the synthesis

Sanburgian Synthesis

SandburgianSynthesis

Think of the elements that are a poetic synthesis.

Make 3 sketches

Use + and =

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remix logo

sketchquotes

I just want to make beautiful things… even if nobody cares

#bowie #literalalphabet

Playing with PUNS

#literalalphabet

Bow-e

J-walk

M-bark

Y-knot

Sketchquote

Pun Play

Google Remix

Choose one (or more!) and try to visualize.

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#needojiWhat words can’t express…

wanderlust

FOMO (fear of missing out)

Woe is me…

Having a Beyonce moment

A-ha moment

“untranslatable” words

SAUDADE (Portuguese) : longing feeling for something you’ve loved which is now lost

IKTSUARPOK (Inuit) : go outside to check if anyone is coming

PANA PO’O (Hawaiian) : scratch head in order to remember something you have forgotten

essentializing

David Ogilvy

big ideas usually come as simple ideas

Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

synthesis: emoji story

Emojiliterate?

The way out of the box is via the shackles

@BryanMMathers

Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)

playing with type

MetaphoricalTypography

the lettering matches the mood or subject

the word is describing

Try with your name, your city or how you

feel right nowhttps://flipgrid.com/24dddf

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One Word to Rule Them All

your life right now your summer plans

Distill something complex, such an experience or content knowledge, into a single word and augment using metaphorical typography and/or accompanying doodles

https://flipgrid.com/a8611a

4 icon challenge

icon challenge

distill an event, film, song, or biography into 3-6 icons

nounproject.com is a great source

flipgrid.com/8a3720

SymbolRedesign

student symbol re-design

via Rhitt Growl

icon re-design:THE LOO

design a new male / female/ non-gender specific icon for the restroom

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Mondrian-ifyand

Minimalist Poster

Mondrian-esqueMetaphor

Illustrate a concept/idea from your discipline

MONDRIAN-IFY use simple geometric shapes and/or basic colors

for symbolismhttps://flipgrid.com/74443b

Haikonography of

“SPEAK” by L Halse Anderson

Haikonography

Haikonography

write a visual haiku using only icons

Three lines: five icons / seven icons / five icons

***remix! Write each on index cards then mill around room and exchange …new poem!

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Dichotomy Series : male/ female

http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

picture VENNs

#oldandnew

Dichotomy OR

Humourous Venn

https://flipgrid.com/2ee88f

Illustrate a dichotomy (try to let the image

do most of the talking but you can contextualize

with words)

OR

Create a humourous Venn diagram

with images and labels

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INSIGHT

How much coffee do you need?

-Gwen Burvall, 10

#Gridsgestures

Nick Sousanis

3 panel summary

MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS

POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS

Visualize a Series in a Theme

(Values)

Theme: “Power of Books”

3 Panel Summary

Theme Grid

In My Mind

Illustrate a film, novel or process in 3 panels

OR

Create a grid depicting a theme such as

Love is… / Summer is…

OR

sketch what’s in your mind

playing with stuff

Pareidolia

use existing found objects

Pareidolia

REMIX: draw over existing landscape

Paper 53 app

Re-contextualize Artwork

Museum Remix

Paper 53 app

paper clip pareidolia

Pareidolia

Use the mundane things around you (or items in your bag)

to create a whimsical illustration

Seek patterns and make something out of nothing

(a common one is to "see a face" in an inanimate thing)

Feel free to use paper and markers to enhance the illusion https://flipgrid.com/18e0dd

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OREO Challenge

everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object) *if you need more you can partner with someone

use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict either:

(“advertise an idea”)

leave whole!

take apart

cut in half

turn on side

crumble

OREOChallenge

Create a visual representation of a concept from the course using any available materials and a single Oreo cookie. Think of it as an advertisement of an idea.

https://flipgrid.com/5a58a9

playing with others

exquisite corpse / collaborative creativity

collaborative creativity: #remash

Visual verse volley

#hashtaggerie

idea! St. Pepper Sketch-a-Song Exquisite Corpse

volleysnowballwarm-up

visualize a vocabulary term, whimsical hashtag or short poem offered by a peer

write word then “throw” as a snowball

create an icon or other visualization for the idea (try metaphorical thinking)flipgrid.com/1ea232

more ideas from my book:

Lewis Carroll

chortle: chuckle + snort

mimsy: miserable + flimsy

portmanteaux

phrankenword

https://flipgrid.com/707831

Phrankenword for the Summer…

1 word +3 image

sketch note

(reflect 1st day of school)

#oodledoodle

Time?

@michelrijk

MINDFULNESS:one-linedrawing

Partner Portrait

in 1 Line

Practice mindfulness by attempting to draw with

one continuous line

Try drawing your friend's portrait this way

Perhaps add a little message of encouragement

and give them the portrait as a gift https://flipgrid.com/d112ea

*Henry Miller

Make something GOOD

every day

your big takeaway

a question

your personal challenge

https://flipgrid.com/152be8

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@IntentionBook