Drawing Life into Objects

Follow the steps that Creative Generation: Design students worked through to devise a list of objects that remind you of people and places in your life:

• Draw an inverted Y-shape as a dividing line on an index card no bigger than a postcard
• Draw an ellipse (oval) shape in the centre
• Write the names or three people inside each of the three spaces inside the central ellipse
• Divide the three spaces outside the central ellipse into another three sections (so that there are nine external sections radiating out from the centre)
• Sketch three objects for each of the three people so that you end up with nine objects that remind you of each person
• Think about the places that the objects you’ve drawn are likely to be found (i.e. golf ball on a golf course)

Try this exercise on an index card, post-it note or make use of this pdf template.

Explore the video resources below to draw an arrangement of the objects from the brainstorming exercises into a group of design drawings, a motion drawing or stop animation.