Idea Book — Danielle Chambers

Situation: Each page has a unique and purposefully vague prompt that invites creativity and artful interpretation.

Approach: This book is an idea storehouse of artfully jumbled thoughts and pure heart.

Draw your creative process.

Research a product you use and create a chart / data visual about what it takes for that product to get to you. Follow the ingredients, the manufacturing, the distribution, and tell that story.

Curate a collection of ideas, images, facts, insights about climate change in the Pacific Northwest.

Draw everything you buy on February 10th. Make this interesting.

Create a map to your favorite place. Show traffic areas, dead ends, high energy points, directions, topography, sweet spots. There should be a legend and a sense of place.

Collect three job descriptions that interest you. List what you must do to get this job.

Write a brand persona: explain a brand you respect by crafting a story of how it lives in the world.

Offer a cultural connection between working mothers and a brand that can solve a real problem for them.

Offer a nicely crafted three-word manifesto for your favorite tool.

Draw the best door on campus.

In your 20 (or 21 or...) years, what are the three best books you've ever read? Name them and why they are on your list.

Tell your story with 6 pictures / images. No words or explanation.

Craft a 100-word manifesto of what you want your career to be. Be bold and aspirational. Let this be part of your personal roadmap.