Brainstorming & Thinking Out Of The Box

People often mixed up brainstorming and mindmapping.

It's easy to differentiate them.

We can brainstorm about 30 different topics but we can only mindmap about one specific topic.

Brainstorming is gathering individual ideas from group members to produce (creative/unique) ways to solve problems.

We start brainstorming from common ideas or solution and then use it to produce other creative or improved ideas to solve the problems.

For example:

How to use the recycle material.

Normally we would think of solutions like, using both pages of paper, using own grocery bag instead of the shop's plastic bag.

As we slowly improved the ideas, we can come out with creative ideas like, recycle skateboards into guitars, recycle cardboards into furniture and also recycling bottles into pet food.

Picture taken from: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/every-bottle-recycling-machine-dispenses-dog-food-strays/

Breaking The Rules

Breaking the rules.

 People normally think that "breaking the rule" is doing something that was not allowed/illegal. 

But that's actually not what it means.

We were told to make something to protect this fragile egg.

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We are suppose to protect it without using any newspaper and I find out that "breaking the rule" actually means: be creative, be special, do something in a way that most people can't think of.

 I wrapped the egg with masking tape, and stuff tissues at the space of in the box to serve as a cushion preventing the egg to break.

I wrapped the enclosed box with blue strings to serve as an additional protection and also a decoration.

After the wrapping was complete we're ready to drop the egg.

The egg broke despite multiple layer of cushion around the egg. 

I've come to realise that I don't have enough cushion on the outer layer of the paper box.

As the paper box's material is really thin, it does not give enough cushion to prevent the egg from breaking.

Here's are some furniture that I think it's "rule breaking".

Photo taken from: http://www.homedit.com/fluid-furniture-by-lila-jang/

As chair's legs alway stands on the ground, the image above break the rule by making 2 of the chair legs against the wall instead.

Photo taken from: http://thevigiblog.blogspot.sg/2012/06/special-design-of-white-place.html

The furniture from the above image break the rules by using the slanted stand. 

Photo taken from: https://nnjjariya.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/my-goals/

The sofa above break the rules by including a lighting system together with it.