Creativity Technique: Random Pictures

There are many avenues toward creating new ideas. One classic creativity technique, Random Pictures, relies on the human mind's innate desire to find connections, patterns, rythms, sequences between two or more disparate visuals, words, concepts, notes, movements, etc.

Random Pictures aims to do just that by juxtaposing different images next to each other or in sequence. Our brain will naturally try and find any patterns, connections, etc.

Flickr is a great place to find pictures for this. All you need to do is enter a word search for 'interesting', 'creative', 'idea', 'new', etc. and you'll find hundreds of thought-enducing pictures. The linked picture below is called the Creative Commons Creativity Poster. You can expand it into a full poster at Flickr.

We use Random Pictures in our Marketing English Plus and Creativity seminars. And I can tell you it does work especially with
Visual Learners and people with an art or design background.

Stay inspired!

Cheers,
Maurice
www.voiceone.fi