I ultimately want to design a self-promotional piece that speaks something about me and myself as an evolving designer. I want it to be challenging. It should be diverse, informative, a real part of who I am as a designer/thinker, positive.
My passions:
(the blue is my added thoughts and brainstorming)
(the purple is my continued search in more detail)
The arts; drawing sketching, painting, sewing, designing, photography, I ALWAYS have my camera with me. Art is my one true passion in my life.
- Imagination at play
- An illustrated story bringing one of my imaginative thoughts to life, like when I was very young I thought a tornado was an enormous tomato with large green arms and legs, tossing houses and cows about. How my youth and imagination is key to my design work, keeping a "playful" light on design.
I think I could combine the ‘imagination at play’ idea with the ‘random connection’
-Childhood stories, my imagination as a child
-My every day conversations with people
-Encounters with others
-Random stories and thoughts
- a journal type layout with illustrations, rough sketches and thoughts about randomness
- more of a ‘random collection’, which would combine more of a ‘my life’, or ‘I am living what are you doing?’ theme, like ‘The Mighty Boosh’, they have a random collection of crazy fun, off the wall book of mayhem really!
- dare to dream
I like to link this idea with my individuality subject as people not being afraid to dream and go out and live their lives, not caring what people are going to think about them. I could also link these to the ‘random collection’
- a book about my sewing and tote bags
- stitched!
- In Stitches
Music - I cannot image my world without it. I have been influenced by music since birth really.
- bring a song to visual life using typography
- what music means to me
- If I were a song what would I look like and how would I be sold...my visual..?
Traveling - I love going to new places, meeting new people and learning about new cultures.
Problem solving - I truly enjoy finding solutions to problems, be it in my design work or my every day life.
Reading - I love a good science fiction or fantasy adventure and just let my imagination go.
How much do we really read today? Statistic on how many books the average person between the ages of 25–35 reads each year in the UK.
Communicating - I enjoy connecting with people
Connections - Every day conversation - Random encounters with people, strangers on the street, at the grocery store, in the park, on the train or bus. I just read this book by Douglas Coupland, 'Life after God'. At one point the character is stuck in the desert with no food or water, has no idea where he is and it is now dark. An old man, just passing by, ends up helping him to find his way and gives him food. - Random acts of kindness - Conversations with people, small an abrupt, by strangers, comments we hear people make on the street...
I want to work with the idea that design is in the every day happenings. I read ‘79 short essays on design’ by Michael Bierut. In the book he spoke about an online forum he set up for fellow designers to discuss their work. Michael himself posted about a topic other than design and people were upset that he used the design forum to discuss things other than design. Michael felt that design is everywhere and involving just about everything. I want to create more of a self promotion piece about my every day experiences, creating visuals for my emotions in my connections with people and situations in my life
an abstract visual communication about random encounters in a person’s life, Everything is design!
- 'I'm living what are you doing' a book about life, the every day little bits that we quickly forget or they just get brushed aside waiting on the BIG bits.
- Random comments I hear in my every day life- a book of randomness - People and comments - Negative comments/ positive comments - Comments that other people have told us about ourselves, negative and positive. How long would it take a person to recall a negative comment verses a positive one?
Learning – I learn new things every day. I am passionate about getting out and seeing life and learning from others.
'Love and Marriage' what does love and marriage look like today?
Living life and taking in and enjoying every moment – Taking each day in as a new experience
Individuality - I love people that get out there and live, who aren't afraid of what anyone else thinks and just creates, lives dances to their own tune
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