Writing for Visual Thinkers is an e-book textbook. The book explores various relationships between writing and design, allowing students to incorporate various ideas and methods of writing into their work. The e-book format allows for dynamic media (such as podcast interviews, video and downloadable PDF exercises), to be easily accessed. The book is currently under development and this blog is intended to create a dialogue and share ideas for book content.
{Publisher: New Riders/AIGA Press}
Friday, November 9, 2007
Notebooks/Sketchbooks
What kind of writing do you see and encourage in notebooks/sketchbooks? Have you come across any interesting visual/written examples by students?
The graphic design professors at Iowa State University encourage or require students to turn in 'process books' with every project. These books document a project from start to finish showing all the sketches and ideas generated and research done during the course of the project in a three ring binder or bound book. I remember generating some interesting books that were useful in job interview situations. I received my MFA from Iowa State and now teach at Univ. of Central Oklahoma where I continue this practice. I have studied the documentation of the creative problem-solving process in design classrooms and published my findings in the International Journal of Design: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.86
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I have a former student who keeps beautiful sketchbooks: http://milk-the-fish.blogspot.com/
The graphic design professors at Iowa State University encourage or require students to turn in 'process books' with every project. These books document a project from start to finish showing all the sketches and ideas generated and research done during the course of the project in a three ring binder or bound book. I remember generating some interesting books that were useful in job interview situations. I received my MFA from Iowa State and now teach at Univ. of Central Oklahoma where I continue this practice. I have studied the documentation of the creative problem-solving process in design classrooms and published my findings in the International Journal of Design: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.86
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