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The Recipe to Help You Overcome Stubborn Creative Block (Chapter 7)
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Duration: 00:54:49
Publish Date: 2020-04-20 08:55:45
Description: 135 - The Recipe to Overcoming Stubborn Creative Block Making connections between your work and the things that inspired you is key to a successful design. Learn to overcome that stubborn creative block between inspiration and creation. Brandi walks you through how to use her word map, what the purpose of the word map is, and how you can use it to your advantage. Featured MusicNo Time To Die by Billie EIlish On this week’s episode:"So, I incorporate this literary method that forces you to not think so linearly about your ideas or so surface and obvious, but to really be okay with exploring these weird side roads and detours that you might not have done."  -BrandiSeaThree points to find motivation:The Word MapStarts with basic conceptLook for your color wordsLook for visual elements This Week's Uncommon InspirationThe word Apophenia - the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things.The word Pareidolia - a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data.   Resources & Other Things We Talked AboutThe World is Not Enough by Garbage Other episodes that detail how to do the word map• Episode 84 "The Process: Part 2a - Using Word Maps"• Episode 86 "The Process: Part 2b - Word Maps Continued"Power Thesaurus  & Power Thesaurus App"It's literally our job to make connections and guide people through our ideas. And the only way where we're going to really be able to do that is to understand where those connections came from." -Brandi Sea Add Your Heading Text Here Some word map process photos from Brandi's Alice in Wonderland Book Cover Project  Share on email Email Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on pinterest Pinterest Want to support us?SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH A FRIEND orVisit Patreon and help support our podcast! We would be eternally grateful! We can't do this without YOU.  You can give as much as you want. Every little bit goes to helping us keep this podcast going.Also, if you get any value out of this show if you would please rate and review our podcast on iTunes!Have a question, comment, or episode subject request? Send an email to brandi@brandisea.com Find us on all forms of social media @designspeakspodcastFind Brandi @BrandiSea on Instagram, Twitter, FacebookFind Julie @juliehaider Find Dakota @realdakotacook  Thank You To The ultra-talented  Vesperteen (Colin Rigsby) for letting us use his song “Shatter in The Night” as our theme music on every episode of Design Speaks. Producers Kenneth Kniffin and Dakota Cook. Podcast Cover Art Illustration by Pippa Keel - @pippa.jk of Zhu CreativeCopyright ©BrandiSea 2020. All Rights reserved. Design Speaks Episode 135  - Chapter 7: Overcoming the Stubborn Creative Block Between Your Inspiration & Actual Creation BrandiSea: [00:00:00] Welcome to Design Speaks, the podcast that helps you discover uncommon inspiration so you can make more meaningful work. I'm Brandi Sea my cohost is Julie Haider. This week we'll be talking about word maps and how you can find concepts that will guide your designs. Stay tuned for that coming up.Well. Hello, Julie. Julie: [00:00:31] Hello. BrandiSea: [00:00:32] I guess I should say hi, Julie. Got to keep this high thing going. Julie: [00:00:36] I'm not picky. BrandiSea: [00:00:38] Well, I am. I like--I like consistency. I'm a creature of habit. Julie: [00:00:42] Okay, never tell me hello ever again. BrandiSea: [00:00:44] Never again. Only hi to Julie Haider. Um, so this week I've kind of been thinking a lot about overcoming,
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