Development of Creative Thought and Structure in Illustration and Graphic Art

Illustration and graphic work is all about creativity. It is the crucial point of making great innovative designs. We should always ask ourselves the question that ‘how to create our own originality?’ Maybe there are numerous methods for that, but the most effective and primitive one is overcoming mindsets. Everyone has his own habitual thinking. For example, when I want to describe a real object I tend to think about the outline and the colour that can be showed by hand drawing. For me, image is always prior to meaning. That’s my thinking rules which I should break all the time. To be specific, I believe that overcoming mindsets will helpfully enlarge a designer’s vision and to some extent it can guide illustrators to the field they have never reached. Inspiration comes in the process of discarding habitual mode ideas and searching for new fresh creativity. Free from conventions and preconceptions calls for continual challenging activities for designers. They need careful observations and critical thinking methodology to break the habitual rules. Generally speaking, overcoming mindsets involves in breaking through traditional patterns, utilizing fresh images and bold colours, matching totally different elements or working media etc.

The following group of pictures is a typical example of breaking the rules and developing creative elements for design work. The designer uses gesture to represent faces and renders fingers to be mouths. They show a combination of different elements.

 Working environment is of great importance for designers because creativity is more than the internal thinking process of individuals. A creative working environment can help designers generate inspiration and get into the working mood quickly. Moreover, a stimulating space can allow creative people to interact and broaden their minds.  The following pictures show the workplace of Google which is full of creativity and fresh ideas. People uses slide instead of stairs to go downstairs, chairs are replaced by boats and the wall of rest rooms are covered with green grass and colourful flowers. Overall, designers need to manage a creative environment so that they can be beneficial to their work.