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.