Question:
What kind of design could I have in a collage???
for the topic "Characteristics of an Entrepreneur" ???
help pls...?
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What a fascinating question. When I think of a good collage (one of my favorite art forms), I think first of its shape and its parts, then of the colors, textures, style, and symbolism of its materials.
With that in mind, I consider your topic, "Characteristics of an Entrepreneur." There are lots of ideas about what an entrepreneur is like. For example, Robert Reich says leadership, management ability, and team building. Others emphasize many other things, but the two ideas that spring to my mind as most important are rarely mentioned: initiative and results.
An entrepreneur has an idea, something new, and lots of energy, enthusiasm, optimism, self-confidence, imagination, and plain old hustle in support of that idea.
But an idea-man doesn't become an entrepreneur until there are results: the idea catches on, it sells, it provides service or is perceived as providing service to other people and, of course, rewards and profit for the entrepreneur.
So I'd come up with a two part collage. The bottom part would be an explosion of an IDEA in bright colors, mostly reds, orange, yellow, shooting out in all directions. I'd keep this part simple but dynamic, showing all that energy and enthusiasm bursting form from the IDEA.
The second part would spring up from that explosion of IDEA like a gush of oil or a flower with lots of petals. This part would grow and grow with a great variety of products and services, constantly expanding. For this I would use lots of kinds of images (photographs, drawings, words, logos, geometric figures, etc.), materials (different kinds of paper, cloth, plastic, even metal or glass), shapes, sizes, and the like. Falling from this huge gush/flower would be paper money tied with strings or wires but falling back toward the IDEA, like fruits or seeds.
What the shape and design of he collage would represent would be initiative (IDEA, the explosion) and results (products, service reaching upward and outward, the flowering; and profit/reward coming back to enrich the initiator, fruit or seeds).
So EXPLOSION=IDEA, bright reds, dynamic, energetic, but very simple and dramatic--maybe focusing on the word I D E A !
Then FLOWER=RESULTS, many colors, sizes, shapes, textures pasted together to form petals, reaching upward, rich, complex, varied, colorful
with SEEDS=REWARDS, falling back in the form of paper money (as from Monopoly) and perhaps a few small new explosions.
For the true entrepreneur, the IDEAS never stop, Each success engenders not only personal profits but ideas that will generate new services to reach outward to other people and, in turn, provide even more profits for the entrepreneur.
Personally, I would like the flower of service and helpful products to be the biggest part of the design as if it were constantly growing upward and outward. The geunine entrepreneur is always serving others. The smallest part of the design would be the seeds, the profits and rewards falling back to the entrepreneur.
But the boldest, brightest, most immediately noticeable part of the design would the the EXPLOSION, that from which all else springs, the IDEA, the initiative. Without this kind of balance, you don't have a genuine entrepreneur. If the profit is bigger and more important than the service and/or the idea, then what you have is an opportunist, NOT an entrepreneur.
Sam Walton was an entrepreneur in retail merchandising; the Walton family has become a clan of opportunists; Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were entrepreneurs, but General Electric and Ford Motor Co., have become opportunists. Some of my favorite entrepreneurs were John Deere, Joseph Pulitzer, Ted Turner, Frank Mars (Milky Way candy bar), Milton Hershey (hershey bar), Ben & Jerry, Ray Kroc (McDonald's), and the like. Their ideas kept growing, well beyond themselves We still are served by their efforts, but it all started with their big IDEAs.