Intro
Finding a direction for your design is a quite difficult thing. How do I want it to be afterwords? Clean and pricy or young and wild? To take the fist steps out of the chaos of single ideas and text I collected I started to make a lexical field.
Sometimes this is a good option because it can help associate and not getting stuck with an idea in such an early state of designing. Afterwords I added a quick picture research to see what different pictorial worlds or associations could be possible.
Lexical field for death
| Tod | Death |
| Sterben | To die |
| Gehen | Go |
| Davon segeln | Sailing from it |
| Münzen auf die Augen | Coins on the eyes |
| Grenzen überschreiten | Exceed limits |
| Untiefen | Shallows |
| Hinübertreten | Step over |
| Sich befreien | Free yourself |
| Zeit ist abgelaufen | Time is up |
| Ins Licht gehen | Go into the light |
| Karma | Karma |
| Aufgeben | To give up |
| Aussteigen | Get out |
| Leben aushauchen | to sigh out one’s soul |
| Geist-Körper-Trennung | Mind-body separation |
| Den letzen Atemzug | Breathe one’s last |
| Ewige Jagdgründe | Happy hunting grounds |
| Entschlummern | – |
| Von jemandem gehen | To go from someone |
| Heimgehen | Go home |
| Sein Ende finden | Find its end |
| Sich verabschieden | Say goodbye (for ever) |
| Sterbebett letzte Nachricht | Deathbed message |
| Dahingehen | Passing by |
| Ruhen | Rest |
| Paradies | Paradise |
| An einen schöneren Ort gehen | Go to a nicer place |
| Nichts versäumt haben | Have not missed anything |
| Warum haben wir nur solche Angst vor dem Sterben, wo es doch alle vor uns schon getan haben | Why are we so afraid of dying, when all of us have already done so? |
| Zur Ruhe kommen | Come to rest |
| Den letzten großen Schritt gehen | Take the last big step |
| Intensität | Intensity |
| Nichts | Nothing |
| Stille | Silence |
Lexical field for life
| Leben | Life |
| Kontakt | Contact |
| Verbindung | Connection |
| Berührung | Touch |
| Gefühl | Feeling |
| Trommelwirbel | Drum-roll |
| Haut | Skin |
| Wind | Wind |
| Sein | Be |
| Ganzheit | Wholeness |
| Grenzen | Border |
| Farbe | Colour |
| Liebe | Love |
