Creative Exercise #2: Pictogram

Here is another creative exercise from the book, "Caffeine For The Creative Mind" by Stefan Mamaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. The book is a collection of 250 exercises to help "wake up your brain". Remember... the only way that this is going to work is for YOU TO PARTICIPATE. So... each time I post an exercise... YOU have to play along... OK? Some of the exercises in this book will seem a little silly at first... but they are designed to get you to think outside of the box.

OK... so this is how this one works. We are going to create a pictogram (You know... like the black and white logos that they use for each event at the Olympics) to describe each of these 6 words: Pressure, Lucky, Dangerous, Suspense, Joyful and Delirious. You can only use 4 straight lines and one circle for each one. You can arrange the lines and circles in whatever fashion you desire... but you can only use four lines and one circle. The lines must be of equal length in each pictogram... and not divided in any way. The circle must be kept whole.

So here is my attempt at the 6 pictogram.

















Go ahead... give it a try. It's harder than it looks. (BTW: "Lucky" was a stretch... it's supposed to be a horseshoe.)