Creativity lives within us all. If you’re looking to unlock and harness your creative potential, our #LetsGetVisual creative exercise video series is a great place to start. These ImageThink creative exercises will help you ideate, innovate, and inspire. Each 2–3-minute video in this series provides a short, daily activity that can be performed solo or in a group. These activities can help you to clear your head, generate new ideas, or find a new perspective, and each of them can be repeated and modified to inspire yourself, or your team.
Creative Exercise 5: A to B Landmark
For those of you in a creative rut, our A to B Landmarks creative exercise offers a perfect solution. All it takes is to approach something familiar with an alternative perspective.
In this exercise, ImageThink visual strategist Emily teaches you how to guide someone from one location to another entirely with visuals. This creative exercise plays on how we instinctively give directions and allows us to consider alternative solutions to complex challenges.
By guiding someone from point A to point B, you’ll derive at this important learning: that there’s always another way. If you’re ready to change your thinking, try this exercise now.
Creative Exercise 6: Six Word Story
Attributed to the American novelist and short-story writer, Ernest Hemingway, our Six Word Story creative exercise challenges you to condense information into one clear point. ImageThink graphic recorders actively practice synthesis in their work by listening for key ideas and grouping like-concepts. Do you have what it takes?
Claud, ImageThink’s visual strategist, walks you through this consolidation and synthesis creative exercise. As a result, you’ll learn how to communicate quickly, clearly, and concisely.
Creative Exercise 7: Incomplete Figure Test
This fun, creative exercise is a lot like looking into the clouds – making figures and objects out of their shapes. Join ImageThink’s visual strategist, Emily in drawing what you see from simple squiggles in ImageThink’s Incomplete Figure Test.
This exercise originated from the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking and is commonly used to gauge an individual’s creativity and problem-solving capabilities.
Whether you use it as an icebreaker activity, or a way to spark your individual creativity, this creative exercise will get the conversation going and prime your visual thinking skills.
What did you make out of your squiggles? Can someone spot the original lines from your drawings?
Creative Exercise 8: Magic of Constraints
If you were to be stranded on an island, and could only bring three books with you, which books would you choose? Questions like this create a fun illustration of constraints, and how they can push creative boundaries.
Our last creative exercise from this series – Magic of Constraints – calls for brainstorming and creative problem solving in the face of real-world limitations. Great for leaders and teams holding strategy sessions, this creative exercise will teach you how to brainstorm around constraints and seek out non-obvious solutions.
Try These Creative Exercises with ImageThink
If you’ve kept up with our creative exercises, we want to thank you for watching and sticking with us until the end. Our team of graphic facilitators regularly leads creative thinking workshops to help teams incorporate whole-brain, visual thinking. Whether you’re looking for better results from brainstorming sessions, or to make your communication more effective as a leader, call us today to partner with ImageThink.
