When creating thumbnail sketches use the following

Techniques for Creative Thinking...

1. Write a listing of “visuals” associated with the product or service
   
   
2. Write a listing of “words” which describe the feeling of the product or service
   
   
3. Change the focal point
   
   
4. Try Symmetry vs. Asymmetry
   
   
5. Try taking one good idea and doing several variations on it
   
   
6. Try visual analogies
   
   
7. Try using a “what if”
   
   
8. Try using “type” as the main graphic element
   
   
9. Reverse a visual or color of an image
   
   
10. Use an unusual visual or a visual unrelated to the product/service
    
    
11. Bring 2 different things, images, or objects together to make a new one
    
    
12. Change the scale of things.
    
    
13. Emphasize the size of something or compare the size to make a point
    
14. Used a strange point of view. An unusual or unexpected angle.
    
    
15. Compare things. (Man to a mouse, Luck of another)
    
    
16. Borrow from language
    
    
17. Look to nature (use shapes, feelings, textures, etc.)