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Creative Caffeine: I Could Have Sworn That Sign Means “Walk Stiffly”

  • Posted on January 14, 2009 at 3:41 pm

If we took one class in driver’s education we’re aware of what the common road signs mean. If it’s yellow with a curved arrow pointing to the right, we know there’s a curve coming up to the right. But what if we didn’t know what they meant? Some of those signs may be communicating more than the designers bargained for. you task today is to come up with alternative means for the following five road signs:




(Mumaw & Oldfield 2006: 27)

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“I Actually Have a Need for a Hacksaw in My Studio”

  • Posted on October 1, 2008 at 10:11 am

An Assignment from “Caffeine for the Creative Mind:”

Most of us are familiar with the Swiss Army Knife, that clever gadget rhat house 276 tools in one handy red plastic sheath. As creatives, we may never have a glaring need for a 2” hack saw, but there are things that we use everyday in our professional lives that might make more useful tools. Your task is to invent your “Professional Survival Swiss Army …Thing.” What would your sheathed utility tool hold? Draw it on a piece of paper or simply list the items it would have.
(Mumaw & Oldfield 2006: 21)

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