An iconography designed for creative practice
A quick organizational exercise
An iconography designed for creative practice
A quick organizational exercise
After writing thirteen articles, making bodies of work visualizing each, designing the content into book form, producing each book, and re-mediating each book back into photographic format, the articles were posted online to Medium. The creative process for each of these projects is long, difficult, exhausting, and requires massive amounts of planning. But most of all, these projects are fun. In working on articulating my personal values I had visualized the creative process for producing the articles.
Within this process visualization, I had identified the opportunities that I was already taking advantage of for creative play. I also added opportunities for growth to the process visualization, representing all of the creative areas of making that I had been wanting to add into my practice on a more regular basis. This uncovered a number of key areas for learning and for growth. For this process visualization, some fourteen icons had been designed. The more I reflected upon what creative practice meant to me, as well as processes in which I was interested but had put off learning due to job responsibilities, the icon family began to grow. Over the next two weeks, I had added 36 new icons representing creative modes of making that I had both experience with, and those of which I wanted to learn more.
A series of design refinement stages were made, with formal edits, colour changes, and component tests. The final family of fifty icons represent the culmination of both processes that I have spent time over this incredible sabbatical learning, as well as processes researched and flagged as things I am interested to learn more about moving into the future.
The final article can be read on Medium.