Brainstorms: COVID 19

Brian Storms for Social Cultural Context

For those who know and have read some of my other blogs,  For me a brainstorm is a big component for a project, you could say a brainstorm is like the bark of the treetops, in other words the brain storms lead to success. I have a strong value and importance for a brainstorm. No matter what I am doing I like to create a brainstorm so I can see how ideas have sprouted and you can see work in. a portfolio evolve from just a doodle or chunks of writing on a spider diagram to a master piece.I love brain storms because they visually represent your thoughts, ideas, feelings and it is a good guide to follow when I am planning ideas for a project.   With this project you'll expect alot of brain storms, to show my visuals and where my ideas have come from. Some of which my ideas have also come from this year's summer project that I did earlier in the year. 

Brain Storm 1

With this brain storm I went for the neat and illistrative approach, I wanted to experiment a bit further to see how I can create visually with type and illustrations and to see what ideas sink into my head when I am planning. 

Brain Storm 2

With this brain storm it is very simple but I like the type! The idea for this brain storm is a legible piece so you can see what I am thinking visually and to see what words pop into my head when a one worded subject is put into my head which I thought was interesting regardless. 

What really interests me is the differences of the first and the second brainstorm to each other, because although it is regarding the same subject matter It is interesting seeing my ideas and visual elements written down in different ways you could almost say they were paraphrased but  they wasn't as such I like how the first brain storm have illustrations  and text because it makes my ideas look exciting and easier to visualise but it does look too neat and tidy for my usual brain storms- I usually create brainstorms like the second brainstorm because I can visually see the words floating around the big heading and what I love about that one is how the title is colourful and easier to read and the words circulating them is in black ink- its very simplistic and I can really visualise and picture this subject matter and create stories in my head by looking at that brainstorm. 

A Doodle visualised brainstorm

With this brain storm it is just a doodle version, I was experimenting visually using illustrations, just to create something unique and sometimes doodling can be good for brainstorming also. It makes me want to doodle more for visualising ideas further. 

Brain Storm 3

With this brain storm I gave myself a challenge to write words associated to COVID 19 and about how it has effected me with my eyes closed so I couldn't see what I was writing. With this challenge I wanted to test my mind and co-ordination this idea occurred to me from days in Vis-com, back in Foundation days, where I remember writing ideas down with my eyes shut and it enabled me to think much more than say the other brainstorms above this one as not only am I thinking of words to do with the virus but I am also consciously thinking of what I am doing more, about what I am writing, more ideas and this way I am remembering my thought process faster as it is making me think about it more and making my brain concentrate because where I can't see what I am doing it is challenging myself for me to think about what I am writing down and guessing where I have written already on the page and where I haven't written on the page.  I liked this idea and might do this type of brainstorm again for the Campaign component of this project depending on my topic theme. That was an interesting approach for making a brainstorm, although it isn't the most legible it made me think about something and seeing the bigger picture also. I quite like the messiness to this anyway, because COVID 19 is a very messy disease and has left the world in a massive sh*t storm so the messiness does work for this subject matter.