Today 7/05/09 I went on my 1st portfolio visit to meet Alan Herron from True North. As nerves settled and the lift dropped me off on the forth floor of 57 Hilton Street, I suddenly felt relaxed and really looked forward to it.
He shook my hand and we headed for a little office. I revealed my portfolio and he had a careful look through it. He told me that my main problem was the lack of taking creative thinking further in every project. He said he would have liked to see other versions of certain parts, e.g. a series of posters. However he said that the content was fine and there were some really good ideas developing. The layout was fine and the feel of the work was quite strong. I listened carefully to what he had to say and and took into consideration revisiting some of my work to develop further.
In all it was a nice, calm, informal visit which I'll take a lot from. It was also really exciting to have been in a real, professional design studio...
Thursday 7 May 2009
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Fake ID
Joshua Trees and Yvan Martinez (Fake ID) are two American designers who choose to work in a slightly more 'experimental' way as opposed the the conventional advertisement, magazine, bill board media that we associate with Graphic Design. Only for big clients will they work in these ways, but otherwise they choose a more original root.
Just recently, April 31, Fake ID came to visit our group especially to do a one day work shop. We were required to doccument a two minute dialogue in the form of a story, commentry, voice over etc. based on an image, focusing how the content within the image came to be. I think most of us were puzzled but after giving it a good go it was quite enjoyable and took us out of our comfort zones for sure. It made me think in a slightly misterious way but gave me a lot of freedom. I had a lot of fun with it.
The next day Fake ID delivered a 40 minute lecture based on sound, text and noise. However it was unlike any lecture I've been to before. When we spent the previous day with them they mentioned that it would be in the form of a performance. They used black and white photographs of people and overhead was sound; conversations, noises of babies, running dialogues etc. The purpose behind it was to demonstrate how 99% of the time we see, observe, are shown things but we don't stop and listen, hear imagery... Over all I found it quite interesting. A little confusing and laborious at times as I think a lot of people did.
Just recently, April 31, Fake ID came to visit our group especially to do a one day work shop. We were required to doccument a two minute dialogue in the form of a story, commentry, voice over etc. based on an image, focusing how the content within the image came to be. I think most of us were puzzled but after giving it a good go it was quite enjoyable and took us out of our comfort zones for sure. It made me think in a slightly misterious way but gave me a lot of freedom. I had a lot of fun with it.
The next day Fake ID delivered a 40 minute lecture based on sound, text and noise. However it was unlike any lecture I've been to before. When we spent the previous day with them they mentioned that it would be in the form of a performance. They used black and white photographs of people and overhead was sound; conversations, noises of babies, running dialogues etc. The purpose behind it was to demonstrate how 99% of the time we see, observe, are shown things but we don't stop and listen, hear imagery... Over all I found it quite interesting. A little confusing and laborious at times as I think a lot of people did.
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