It's A Tangled Web We Weave

When it comes to ideas they are endless. There a million options to choose from, a million answers to a question, a million ways to solve a problem. So with all these millions of ideas and answers and questions tangling their way around our brain, there's no wonder that it sometimes feels like they are coming out of our ears. When it comes to the creative process of problem solving it is important to untangle this web of ideas in order to gain a clear sense of what you have generated and where theses could lead to. The best solution to this problem? Take the tangled web of ideas and make them into single threads. Kinda like untangling a ball of wool but in this case, mind mapping.



John Clapp's Evolution Of The Eye
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 John Clapp is a children's book illustrator who demonstrates that mind mapping is not only a way of organising thoughts but also a creative process. In the centre of the map is Clapp's subject matter, the evolution of the eye. From this central topic forms initial thought and ideas, these are the main branches of thought, such as colour, evolution, signals etc, and from these develop more detailed and interact ideas relating to each of the subject titles. For example in colour, Clap has broken it down into smaller sections like frequency, colours visible to the etc and illustrated with graph and colour samples. With this all done with the use of illustrations allows the simplification of a complex subject into easy chunks of information. Even the central title, 'the evolution of the eye', is drawn as an eye itself. This along with graphs, sketches and doodles all related to the subject have allowed Clapp to create a obvious display of his thought process not only to himself but to anyone who looks at his sketchbook.

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