Designers can rely on inspiration to achieve creativity, but also bear the risk of being abandoned by such inspiration. Because novice designers are short of systematic methods and experience, they are usually concerned about a lack of inspiration throughout their designing processes. The Analytic Composition Method (ACM), which was developed to solve such a problem, provides references for teaching and learning basic graphic design. This study applies this method to teaching activities through constrained design tasks, and selects three examples to demonstrate the development and application of this method. The results show that using this method as a tool for graphic design enables various sources of inspiration to generate different modes of thinking and creative expression.
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Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design
