Chapter 6: Cultivating Creativity

Which answer best describes the combination that led the Eames brothers to their chair design.

Comfort, affordability, and elegance of design.

Which is a true statement about convergent and divergent thinking?

Convergent thinking benefits from defining a problem to be solved, whereas divergent thinking benefits from creating new problems.

Visual research might include any of the following activities, EXCEPT

Going for a bike ride.

A well-developed three-dimensional sketch is

a maquette.

Convergent thinking is least affective when

an innovative, unconventional result is required.

Convergent thinking includes all of the following EXCEPT

completely open-ended experimentation.

Defining a problem involves all of the following EXCEPT

completing the first solution devised.

Artists of the Surrealist movement typically used ____ as a problem-solving approach.

divergent thinking

All of the following are attributes of divergent thinking EXCEPT

innovation is discouraged.

When researching a subject, the best method is

visual research which includes making models and maquettes; or using the Internet to do a keyword search; or making numerous thumbnail sketches; or reading books and magazines.