1. April 27, 2011 HFIDO Spring Lecture Series

2. Welcome! About me Part-time HFID student Designer, educator, mother Adjunct faculty at Bentley About you Let’s hear a little about each of you What did you come to learn today?

3. What is Ideation Sketching? Ideation Sketching is about loosening up your mind, your hand, and the connection between them. Think Different!—L-mode and R-mode, terms discussed in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edward. “Only left-handed people are in their right minds.”

4. What is Ideation Sketching? Creating visual solutions Brainstorming with images, words & short phrases Harnessing the right side of the brain to work for us in problem solving

5. Loosening Up

6. Make up a Visualization Problem Starter ideas 1. Logo redesign/branding 2. 30-second spot commercial storyboard 3. Instruction sheet for assembly 4. Book jacket/cover design 5. Conveying large amounts of data 6. App icon design

7. Make up a Visualization Problem Sketch out at least three solutions 1. Begin drawing 2. As soon as you have a different idea, draw it 3. In 60 seconds… Go!! Feel free to jump around your page with ideas. Suspend judgment; it will help you be more prolific.

8. Loosening Up some more

9. Digital Tools Useful Resources Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Great Tutorials for Creating Images: Photoshop Star Adobe's Current Tutorials These tend to focus on the newest advances of Adobe's latest version. The Media Lab has CS4 and Adobe's site promotes CS5. Good Beginner Illustrator Tutorial I often build in Illustrator, pulling in images from Photoshop when I need to. Illustrator creates vector work which has the advantage of being scalable. Photoshop Star Adobe's Current Tutorials Good Beginner Illustrator Tutorial See hFIDO blog for links

10. Digital Tools Useful Resources Start Building Your Portfolio Portfolio Sites: Coroflot The portfolio website created by Core77, Industrial Design Magazine and Resource. Yola Found out about this one asking a Media Arts student what he used. Wordpress Always a good backup. Check around there for others using it as a portfolio presentation. It's not bad. Dropr Now in beta for the public, and an interesting option. Coroflot Yola Wordpress Dropr Creating a Successful Online Portfolio Creating a Successful Online Portfolio Smashing Magazine weighs in with some helpful tips. Web colors in HTML code Web colors in HTML code See hFIDO blog for links

11. Digital Tools Useful Resources Start Building Your Portfolio Portfolio Sites: Coroflot The portfolio website created by Core77, Industrial Design Magazine and Resource. Yola Found out about this one asking a Media Arts student what he used. Wordpress Always a good backup. Check around there for others using it as a portfolio presentation. It's not bad. Dropr Now in beta for the public, and an interesting option. Coroflot Yola Wordpress Dropr Creating a Successful Online Portfolio Creating a Successful Online Portfolio Smashing Magazine weighs in with some helpful tips. Web colors in HTML code Web colors in HTML code See hFIDO blog for links

12. One Last Game