MORE ABSURD SIGNS

MORE ABSURD SIGNS

Creative Imagination

ABSURD SIGNS

Exercise: Look at the seemingly absurd signs on the next page and write the meaning for each. These signs don’t have a standard, known purpose, but they do have the potential to express persuasive, meaningful warnings, or instructions. Even if it’s preposterous, use defensible logic to your explanation of the sign’s meaning.

Why: The act of thinking through absurdity activates the creative right brain. Though farce and absurdity are a relatively new tool in the timeline of creative humankind,  they’ve made a powerful, indelible mark on the arts in the last couple of centuries. From Steve Martin to Andy Warhol, Absurdism taps into a primal, childlike openness, where rule-breaking and free association yield delightful and provocative results from a creative imagination.

Enhances Creative Imagination which includes divergent thinking, brainstorming, removing barriers, and combining ideas without rules or judgments.

Example:

 
 

MEAINING

WARNING ROCKS ROLL UPHILL


ABSURD SIGNS

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