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Formstorming: Alexa Berg

  Lynda Barry’s graphic novel, What It Is, features a series of images (or collages rather) that help to support the idea of formstorming, a term Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips describe as an “act of visual thinking” in Graphic … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Hak Do

In Lynda Barry’s novel called, “What It Is” she seems to use a method of formstorming in many of her pages and her pages combined in general. Formstorming is a tool for designers to unlock and deepen solutions to basic … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Cassidy Krahn

“Formstorming moves the maker thought automatic, easily conceived notions, towards recognizable yet nuanced concepts, to surprising results that compel us with their originality.” stated in the book Graphic Design The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, perfectly … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Tristan Moran-Salgado

    In the first section of the graphic novel “What it is.” by Lynda Barry containing 50 pages of drawing of tons of different things from people to animals and such along with writing. During the 50 pages Lynda … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Eva Guillen

The benefits that come from engaging in the formstorming process is being able to make different arts with one strategy. Like mentioned in the book Graphic Design the New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips that “Formstorming is … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Cristian Gutierrez

In the beginning of her graphic novel, Linda Barry starts out by talking about the notion of time. It seems as though; she sees time as something we can travel to back and forth. This notion is carried throughout the … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Jon Williams

  Flipping through the pages of What it is? by Lynda Berry, I came across a page that really spoke to me as a person talking about memories. The images on page 33 discuss the idea of what is a memory, and what constitutes … Continue reading

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Formstorming-Henry Buehler

  Formstorming is a creative problem solving method conducted through “visual thinking”. The primary elements of formstorming are repetition and variation, such as different fonts or kinds of eggs. These examples include different styles and different forms of the same … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Jasmin Negrete

Through the first fifty pages of her novel, What It Is, Lynda Barry discusses many questions she has about images. From “Where are images found?” to “What is and Where is your imagination?”.In the first few pages of her graphic novel, … Continue reading

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Formstorming – Mikah Chan

Formstorming , is a term used to explain “the act of visual thinking”or practicing brainstorming in the physical world outside of your head. As discussed in Graphic Design: The New Basics this method is used to investigate an idea. To analyze and … Continue reading

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