In our culture, designers, artists, etc. create images & express ideas & emotions through a visual vocabulary. Unless an effort to invent new shapes is made, we tend to restate that which is familiar, and as a result, their visual impact tends to be limited unless fresh insights are provided.

Assignment: Produce 10 shapes that are content based. Use abstract ideas, emotions and/or concepts that are descriptive in a physical sense. These shapes should be inventive & non-imitative.
(The teacher also likes the idea of shapes that implies a sense of motion.)
The images will eventually be made using black construction paper and X-acto knife. So they will be black and white.

whew!...that's the edited version.


This is my daughter's first art assignment. I've made a few suggestions but seem stumped myself. I asked if she'd like me to pose this assignment here for some ideas and she said she'd love that.

So...all ideas are welcome and appreciated. I do not expect anyone to "do" this assignment "for" her.

Whew is right. Which college is she going to Eve? I'll give it a try.

College of the Desert, G, in Palm Desert, CA.

I'm not expecting anyone to try to come up with 10, btw.

One thought I had was a vessel with water flowing from it...not the easiest thing to cut using an X-acto knife though.

am I on the right track here or is noone getting this....

Nice one, Gomez.
Maybe the motion would be a spinning fetus?

hahahaa....maybe a kicking one?

I may be wrong, but isn't SHE supposed to do her homework?

Yes, Arc...but do you not see that it is a difficult assignment? It's difficult for those of us who work in the industry. And now...I wonder if this teacher's responsible for the free-form (read blobby) logos of the past years.

SAY WHAT????......Shot who????.....i got the shapes part...but after that...it gets blurry, real fast. I sure hope we can do something for extra credit.

Dewd...everything you dew is for extra credit.

Try to be creative....

I reckon that's a great assignment Eve! Showed it to the Art Teacher wife too, she thinks it's pretty good.
As to how to approach it I'm unsure. Define a list of emotions/ideas first and then try and fit images......or mess around with the images first and see what pops to mind.
Either way, it looks like a fun and interesting activity.
Really, Bob's idea ain't that silly. It's instantly recognisable to me, but could be viewed by the teacher as imitative???
Anyway, let kiddo loose on your wacom Eve and see what happens.
I'll have a further think about this one....

GREAT assignment!

nevermind...

"You might want to try this out on your teacher brief!"

http://www.your3dsource.com/are-you-crazy-inkblot-test.html

(At least let your daughter have a go at deciphering some of the images for fun).

PERV!