Intuitive and simultaneous, picture thinking, is a form of non verbal thought. In which pictures, colors, plans and diagrams are used to build entire systems in the imagination. So re-ignite the curious portion of your brain and reach for a thinking tool with a difference: a crayon. Take a crayola and draw doodles. Improvise shapes. Include textures. Investigate materials. And extrude functions. Exhaust all possibilities until the ideal leaps out at you.
Interested in exploring the visual impact of the economic crisis, Dutch design studio Tjep. took an Ikea mass produced chair and started sanding it to the finest possible version. The Recession Chair goes from normal, to diminished, to skeleton like. The resulting object is barely functional and most likely won't withstand the weight of the person it's trying to support, much like a society plagued by recession.
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