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Illustrated Glossary

Perception - a particular way of looking at or understanding something

Stakeholder map - It is a representation of all the people who are affected by an activity and how they are connected.



Six thinking hats - The six thinking hats is a tool to boost the productivity of creative thinking by dividing up the different styles of thinking into six "hats": logic, emotion, caution, optimism, creativity, and control.



Paper pulping -Pulping is the process where fibers are separated and treated to produce pulp.


Stakeholder - They are people who are interested in a company and can affect a business directly or indirectly.


Embossing - to put a raised design or mark on the surface of paper, leather etc.

5W1H - These are questions whose answers are considered basic in information gathering or problem solving- What, Where, Why, When, Who and How.


Weaving - It is a way of takin strips of paper and placing them either "over" or "under" the base piece of paper.


Mind Map - a diagram in which information is represented visually, usually with a central idea placed in the middle and associated ideas arranged around it.


Typography design - typography design is the art of arranging a message in a readable and aesthetically pleasing composition.

Jaali cut - It is the term for a perforated stone or paper, usually with an ornamental pattern constructed through the use of calligraphy and geometry


Monochrome - is an image displaying a single colour or different shades of a single colour

Illustration - A picture or a drawing or the act of creating drawing.

Extrusion - An extrusion is a part or length of material formed by pushing a material through a die with a particular cross-section


Platonic forms - are just ideas of things that actually exist. They represent what each individual thing is supposed to be like in order for it to be that specific thing.

Material Culture - refers to the physical pieces that make up a culture. Material culture consists of things that are created by humans.

Archimedean forms - one of 13 possible solids each of which has plane faces that are all regular polygons though not all of the polygons are of the same species and each of which has all its polyhedral angles equal

Indigenous Communities - Indigenous peoples, also referred to as first peoples, first nations, aboriginal peoples native peoples, or autochthonous peoples, are culturally distinct ethnic groups who are native to a place which has been colonised and settled by another ethnic group

Contour - It is an outline of the terrain obtained by joining its points of equal elevation

Sepia - a reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Organic form - It is realistic representations of the natural world or living things.

Texture - The tactile feel of an object or surface

Visual Texture - It is an attribute of a two-dimensional figure or a two-dimensional rendering of a three-dimensional object that describes its surface characteristics

Negative Space - The space which is not covered up by the main content.

Visual elements- It is any characteristic that we can see, including line, shape, direction, size, texture, colour, and value.

Colour harmony- It refers to the property that certain aesthetically pleasing colour combinations have.

Colour wheel- a circle with different coloured sectors used to show the relationship between colours. Thinking Tools - Exercises and activities designed to speed up ideation and exploration.

Lateral Thinking - Thinking outside the box, exploring new dimensions to problem solving.

Time Management - Dividing and utilising time to the best of your needs

Brainstorming - packing your brain to come up with ideas fast

Gradient - A gradual change from one hue to another.

Opacity - The amount of transparency in a subject







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