New ideas for seminars and workshops
You are well prepared. You have expertly planned your event and prepared the handout for the participants. Then the seminar approaches and the last thing you need to do is design the posters. You stand in front of the blank flip chart and hold the marker in your hand. But you just can't think of anything. With the tips in this article, this will never happen to you again.
Photographs
Create an archive with photos of your own visualizations. People often forget what they created some time ago. The advantage of this is that you are guaranteed to be able to implement the ideas again - after all, they came from your own pen.
Collections
Make yourself a matrix, use a checklist or develop your thoughts with a mind map. Structure is not a brake. It merely provides a framework.
Role models
Take advantage of the positive aspect of sensory overload: the Internet, colleagues, books, illustrations and posters provide you with easily accessible design examples.
Brainstorming
Write down unfiltered ideas that come to mind. There is also room here for lateral thoughts, the absurd and the banal. Many ideas arise in a short space of time.
Designing flipcharts creatively under time pressure
Deep inside you, the demands are raging: "Don't write anything down now!", "Time is short!", "Can I get everything on a poster?". And somehow you come to a standstill at the very moment when you want to design a few posters creatively, humorously and fluently. Now you need to come up with ideas. But how do you come up with a design idea? Many people mean "the right idea" or "the solution idea" when they talk about ideas, thereby ignoring a whole spectrum of unfinished thoughts, flashes of inspiration and random suggestions.
"I really need an idea now" often becomes a filter: the obvious is preferred, the familiar is considered more intensively and the concrete is more strongly advocated. The "quirky" idea with all its potential is lost in the process. Try one of these methods next time you need a good idea very quickly.
Spontaneous idea
This is the first idea that comes to your mind for a solution after the problem has been defined. Make a note of the spontaneous idea in any case, even if it seems old-fashioned, has been there before or somehow seems boring.
Analogies
Use seemingly distant and randomly selected images, analogies and stimulus words to help you find ideas. They bring something new into play, stimulate and confront you with otherness.
Colleagues
Ask your colleagues: "How would you do that?" "What do you spontaneously think of on the subject of ...?"
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