Responding to stimuli in design work
Responses to shells as a stimulus could relate to colour, texture, form or other elements
There are many different ways to respond to stimuli for design work. You could:
- Base a list or a spidergram on your design brief to explore possibilities.
- Make a collage of market research images in your sketchbook or make a A collection of images, such as market research, inspirational images and colour palettes, that shows a concept and gives a designer’s work direction. .
- Make a collection of images of designers’ work that you particularly admire.
- Make a collection of images relating to your source of inspiration.
- Make 3D forms based on your source of inspiration, if appropriate.
- Take photographs.
- Doodle some initial ideas in your sketchbook.
- Make drawings based on your source of inspiration.
The spidergram below shows how you might explore the design problem of creating a poster for a musical of The Great Gatsby.
