Category Archives: Spring 2017 Archive (336)

According to Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips define formstorming as an act of visual thinking (13).  Formstorming is a way for designers to dig deep into their imagination and challenge their creativity. By reading … Continue reading →

  The first 50 pages of the graphic novel, What It Is by Lynda Barry, explores very heavy ideas such as the loss of innocence and imagination that comes with age. Many of the pages feature text that asks questions … Continue reading →

In Lynda Barry’s graphic novel, What It Is. The reader is moved from page to page by a collage of images and different texts pulled from magazines, newspapers and other handwritten notes or essays. We see a repetition of this … Continue reading →

In the first 50 pages of “What it is” Lynda Barry hosts a procession of superfluous philosophical questions related to creativity. If you are like me, this book may seem like a collection of creative drivel backed by a well … Continue reading →

While reading What It Is? By Lynda Barry, I discovered that Lynda Barry is directing the reader’s attention to the human’s ability to dismiss a thought or an image of creativity. As people we doubt ourselves and in the reading, the character … Continue reading →

Images are as important to an artist as diction to a poet or flavor to a chef.  Images are alive, perhaps not breathing but most definitely speaking.  They can take on an idea and shout it out to so many … Continue reading →

Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips define formstorming along the lines of being used as a tool to infuse a concept with creativity and originality to produce several new results. With this in mind, it seems as though Lynda Barry thought about this while … Continue reading →