PPP2 – SESSION 01 + TASK 01

WHO ARE YOU NOW?

·      New challenges

·      Highlights from last year

·      Make life interesting

·      What made it memorable?

·      What do I feel I gained from the experience?

·      Personal comments on blog

·      Smallest things we experience are important in so many ways

·      Why?

-       Build up a database that will be more than useful in years to come

·      We’re visually bias

-       Create an onboard database

-       Gives us the methodology of research and knowledge

·      So many ways to gather research other than the internet

-       Go places

·      Merchandisers

·      Have to visit places//venues

·      Look at blogs

·      Blog anything I think is interesting

·      Transition between 1^st & 2^nd year

-       Diverse

-       Measured on what you have learned

·      Work you have seen, studios you appreciate & have contacted or considering contacting

-       All part of PPP development

·      Do something different

-       Ask for a visit rather than a placement

-       Choose wisely

-       Make friends//mentors

-       Network

·      Experiences to share

·      Don’t be scared

·      Now is the time to plan

-       Get yourself known out there in industry

·      Start getting your ‘ducks in a row’

-       Creative CV

-       HRCV

-       Personal branding

-       Business card

When visiting designers//studios

-       Ask if they would mind if I came back?

-       What are there placement options?

-       Who else do you think I should talk to?

-       Get at least 2 more names

LINKED-IN

-       Look at where people are from

-       Formulate your questions

-       Skype

Enthusiasm

Excitement

Answer the brief and then think how big it could go

‘Internships’ – Wrong

‘Placements’ – Right

Want a job

-       Money

-       Not a slave

Commercial Artist

Use twitter as a connecting platform

When uploading work to Behance always add a copyright logo

PAULA SCHER    -        BLOOMBERG

-       Interactive

-       Print

-       Moving

DAAN ROOSEGAARDE        -        DESIGN IN DABA, CAPETOWN

-       Hippy with a business plan

-       Interactive landscapes

-       Techno-poetry

-       Dune

-       Tactile

-       Sustainability

-       Self-commission to push ideas further

-       Second skin clothing – dresses

The dresses become see-through when the woman gets excited.

Creating one for men that becomes see-through when he lies.

-       Technology

-       Creative ideas to affect the public

-       Market research

-       Updating reality

-       Roads – Collaboration

-       Paints that change colour depending on the temperature

-       Glow in the dark road markings

Charges during the day

Light at night

-       Dance floor

Electricity through vibrations

Enough electricity to power the club

-       Fun

ALEX CHEN

-       Subway map

-       Musical

MARTI GUIXE

-       Edible options

-       Spampt – techno – tapas

-       I-cakes

-       Retail spaces

Private parties

Paint shop

Authentic

Original

Different

-       Hijacking fountains

Globalization

-       Interaction

-       Technology

MYON

-       Robots

-       US military

Animal

Iron man

Technology to give us a better environment.

Airbus

-       New design

-       3D printing

Anything I find interesting – blog it.

Print isn’t dead, it is evolving.

Don’t over complicate.

Coca-Cola Lego man

Product        -        what is it?

Range        -        what is the potential range?

Distribution   -        how am I going to get it out there?

The designer Vs. The client

Build in time for yourself

-       Prior to starting

-       Plan ahead

-       3 buggeration days

-       Work//life balance

TASK O1

REFLECTING ON YOUR SUMMER, WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EVENT AND WHY?

This summer I have three memorable events.

The first being the work I designed for LCA Freshers. This was memorable because it took up a large proportion of my time, with very little in return. I did, however, enjoy doing it as it kept me designing over the summer, which I may not have done otherwise and it also gave me the experience of working with//for a client. On top of this it also gave me a body of work that could go towards my portfolio and gave me the opportunity to see my work used outside of the course constraints.

The second memorable even of my summer was the week I spent in the south of France with my uncle and extended family. This is something that has become a fairly regular event over the past 5 years or so and is memorable for the great place, food, people and experiences I had there.

The most memorable event of my summer was my mothers wedding and summer party. Obviously a very special event, the week of both was full of visitors - friends and family - some of whom I hadn’t seen for a long time, eating and drinking and just generally having a great time. This is a very happy memory that will last for a long time.

HAVE YOU MADE ANY CONTACTS OVER THE SUMMER THAT YOU FEEL COULD HELP OVER THE COMING YEAR OR SO AND WHAT OUTCOMES DID YOU FEEL YOU ACHIEVED?

Over the summer I met and talked to a lot of people, especially through my memorable events. None specifically, however, that will obviously help over the coming year. The contacts at LCA my help with any issues I have at college but I can’t think of any that will specifically help the development of my PPP. One contact that could possibly be useful is the commercial printers I used to print my mother’s wedding invitations, which I had designed.

Although it was not this summer, I spent some time in a digital design studio in London – called Nation. Since that summer, I do occasionally email him to keep the contact going.

HOW DID YOU MEET//CONTACT THESE CONTACTS (METHODS USED OR HOW IT HAPPENED)?

The college contacts I originally made through being part of the football team and starting up the Snow Sports Society.

The printers I found out about by asking and trying various other printers around Leeds, who directed me to them.

I was put in contact with Tom at Nation as my step-father is their family dentist and was talking to his mother and she suggested I should email him and go down and visit.

IF YOU DIDN’T MAKE ANY CONTACTS, WHY? TOO BUSY WORKING? HOLIDAY? COMMITMENTS?

The reason I think I didn’t make contacts over the summer was because my attention was focused on other things, such as the college work and the wedding and then when I did have some time I wanted a break so I went on holiday and spent time with my girlfriend.

WHAT METHODS OF CONTACTING CREATIVES CAN YOU THINK OF AND WHAT WOULD YOU ASK?

The methods of contacting creatives that I can think of are:

-       Sending them a letter//example of work

-       Speaking to them over the phone or skype//facetime

-       Social media sites such as twitter

-       Emailing the studio//designers themselves

-       Business networks such as LinkedIn

The questions I would ask:

-       How did they start out?

-       What do they look for in a new designer?

-       (Something about their work?)

-       Can I come and visit?

-       Who else do they think I should look at//contact?