Idea Generators
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- pango0
"secret shrinking celebration"
"computerized chocolate sex toy"
"nutritious vibrating garden"
"eco-friendly destructive exercise machine"
"artificial invisible food"
- scarabin0
this is some silly, retarded shit.
good ideas come from analyzing the problem and tracing out possibilities from there, not by holding your breath for 30 seconds and pretending you're neil french
1. Zoom in and out extremely on your subject in your mind
2. Take up the perspective of an ant and a bird
3. Look at your subject as if you were a priest / astronaut / vampire / prostitute
4. Examine your subject wearing pink glasses
5. Lie down on the floor
6. Hold your breath for 30 seconds
7. Put the company name behind bars
8. Write the company name SMS style
9. Curl up in your chair
10. Hyperventilate
11. Put the company name under-water
12. Imagine your subject glowing / radiating heat
13. Talk like Luke Skywalker
14. Write the company name on a bun
15. Write down 21 objects that the company's name remind you
16. Draw something for 60 seconds without lifting your pencil from the paper
17. Try not to blink for 60 seconds
18. Imagine shaving your eyebrows
19. Look at the ground for 60 seconds
20. Embrace yourself
21. Talk like a baby
22. Put something in your mouth and say the company name
23. Drink 2 glasses of water in one go
24. Write the company name on a tissue and wet it
25. Spend 20 minutes to come up with 20 ideas over a white sheet of paper
26. Turn on the music to the max
27. Take a leak / shower
28. Do 10 pushups (or at least try)
29. Scream: "I'm hungry!"
30. Pretend you're Neil French
31. Act like Marilyn Monroe
32. Open the dictionary on a random page and read the first entry
33. Pet your dog or something
34. Take a picture of yourself
35. Put earplugs in your ear
36. Sharpen your pencils
37. Take off your shoes
38. Look at the sky for 60 seconds
39. Pinch your nose and talk
40. Take off your socks and walk
41. Imagine your subject matter frozen if you can hold something cold
42. Count your money in your valet
43. Kick back and daydream
44. Play with a kid, a dog or a toy
45. Eat sweets
46. Browse the net with StumbleUpon
47. Act gay (or straight if you're gay)
48. Tidy up your office
49. Smell a flower or tea leafs
50. Wet your hair
51. Floss your teeth
52. Pinch yourself
53. Put something over yourself
54. Take off your shirt
55. Pretend playing golf
56. Pretend playing basketball
57. Kiss a lucky symbol
58. Blow soap bubbles or bubble gum
59. Make a prank call
60. Borrow an inexpensive object without asking
61. Draw a face on your finger
62. Wear something strange
63. Look at clouds and imagine there is a message
64. Count back from 27
65. Raise your both arms for 60 seconds
66. Do an air guitar solo or pretend playing the piano
67. Put chocolate to your mouth and resist the temptation to eat it
68. Shake your head
69. Pray like a ninja
70. Look out of the window and stare at one object for 30 seconds
71. Make a paper plane
72. Think about your subject as if it was made for the super rich
73. Type random characters and read it as if it was a secret code
74. Come up with 5 ridiculously lousy ideas
75. Think of a matching car for your product or service
76. Draw your client Dilbert style
77. Just close your eyes and relax
- o_O0
Design Company Name Generator
- *incorporates Scarlett Moose Productionsharlequino
- *Scarlet Armadillo Ltdo_O
- harlequino0
That visual thesaurus thing is really on the money.
- emphasize "money" there, mate.janne76
- I know. Charging for viz thesaurus makes panda bear cry. :'(harlequino
- i weep with you...
v_vjanne76
- o_O0
77 ways to come up with an idea..
http://creativebits.org/toolbox/…
- waterhouse0
What kind of inspiration are you looking for? General image-based design, or - as you hinted at - lexical relationships?
- Nevermind. I see above.waterhouse
- Both seem like a good bet.harlequino
- harlequino0
Yes yes yes. I realize that thing is more or less a gag. It was just an example.
I'm looking more for things that are based in word association.
For example, if you plugged in the word "leaf," you might get back a list that says: green, tree, nature, organic, pile, etc...
- http://thesaurus.ref…pango
- visualthesaurus.comidentity
- Oh ffs...harlequino
- that visual thesaurus thing looks like it migh tbe the ticketharlequino
- yeah visualthesau.. but you gotta pay for that shit.janne76
- hahah - visualthesaurus.com sounds like exactly what you're looking for tho... maybe not...identity
- janne760
herlequino,
i have this weird feeling that thing is actually put there by means of entertaining and making a funny.sorry for the bad news. :(
- waterhouse0
I'm with Pony. That link doesn't seem to really AID anything.
- Partially why I am looking for others.harlequino
- but it cracks me up lol. "erotic torture appliance"pango
- pango0
lol i remember somebody posted something like this on NT couple years ago. "random project name generator" or something.
- but sorry no luck over here.pango
- @pango... i believe you were talking about this: http://www.babynamew…o_O
- nop but thanks! now i have something to do while i have no work in this afternoon.pango
- PonyBoy0
what's wrong with the one in your head? :)
- Only two bars left and can't find charger for it. O_oharlequino
- it's filled with the interneteighteen
- harlequino
Looking for little apps that act like idea generators or aids in brainstorming, sort of like this:
http://www.tdbspecialprojects.co…Trying to find ones in particular where you could plug in a word and it spits back synonyms, antonyms, similar ides/links, that kind of thing.