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 creativity exercises 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 1: The Paper Clip Test
No this isn’t an audition for MacGyver; it’s one of ImageThink’s most popular, tried and true creative thinking activities for expanding the mind, widening the frame, and shifting perspectives.
A variation on a common psychology test to determine whether you’re inclined to be a divergent thinker (great for generating lots of original ideas), ImageThink’s version adds drawing to the equation.
By intentionally making marks and using your hands and eyes, you’re activating more of your brain, helping to unlock your full potential. Enjoy!
Creative Exercise 2: Draw it Again
Seeing double? Triple? Just as reframing the question can lend you a new perspective on a challenge, repetition can often be a key to unlocking creativity and specificity.
Think of it as a form of meditation. Repeating a process can offer deeper insights and act as an energizer.
Draw, reflect, repeat. Over time, this simple act can lead to new discoveries and seeing things in a new light.
Creative Exercise 3: Draw Your Breath
Take a deep breath, and a pencil, add a little meditative illustration and allow your mind to open to new ideas.
ImageThink’s Director of Creative Development leads this simple, repeatable practice that helps us center ourselves, align our own thinking, and regain focus in the midst or at the end of a long day.
Think of it as a savasana for meetings or retreats.
Creative Exercise 4: Sign Redesign
What makes you stop, the word “STOP” or the red octagon behind it?
Iconography and text go hand in hand with signage all over our daily lives. And while the written word is certainly helpful, our brains rely heavily on the immediately recognizable and universal symbolism that you encounter in signs.
In this creative visualization exercise, ImageThink tasks participants with redesigning something seen and adhered to all over the world.
Creative Brainstorming with ImageThink
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.
