This week I have been working on my brief 2 process model. Last thing I said about this project was that I was having some issues with the design and that I had come to a bit of a stand still with the design because the design that I had done didn’t feel like me. I am happy to say that I am back on track. Some of the themes that were mentioned in this week’s lecture really helped me. One of the things that was mentioned was this idea of going away from the work and finding something else to do to try and spark some inspiration, and that was a game changer for me. Because I teach design, when I am not doing my MA work, I am helping 24 different learners get through their final major project, so I found that by helping them and working on a completely different project to my own, I was able to think about my own work in the back of my mind and really spark something.
This weeks lecture notes – Finding the gaps
- Simon Manchip
- Talks about having a radically different mindset when working across different projects.
- Talks about how you have to change and adapt to each project that you are working on
- This idea of transformative work
- You have to work strategically
- Make things that are interesting
- Have original thought and lateral thinking
- Sam Winston
- Making culture
- Playing with culture
- Regular practice
- If there is something that you want to do, make time to fit it into your schedule.. MAKE IT FIT IN YOUR EVERYDAY PRACTICE
- Sarah Boris
- Collaborate with different backgrounds and people that you wouldn’t normally work with.
- Intro
- Get outdoors more
- Make sure that what you do makes you happy
- Challenge yourself
- Personal projects help to take the pressure off everyday work.
- Side projects
- Side projects can help make your life interesting
- You can make a full time career out of side projects
- You can have too much fun doing side projects, which can limit your regular work – find a balance
- You have to find something that you don’t do as part of your every day career.
- Trust that giving yourself space and time away from the normal project, that it will give you answers.
- You get to define 100% of hat th project is about.
- Find time for side projects. – the define you as a designer.
- Brian Eno – Oblique Strategies
- – 1975
- Card based method of promoting creativity.
- Each card contains a gnomic suggestion or remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation.
Areas of design that interest me and I think i would like to have a go at producing work for include:
Prop design, Stage design, illustration, web design and editorial design.
In order to try and get involved within these areas of design, I need to find out and research more about the subjects and themes that arise from these parts of design. I have dabbled in each one of these previously, but I have not fully immersed myself in the areas yet and I think by immersing myself, I would be able to get a clear indication to if I am going to enjoy the work or not.
LSJ DESIGNS 
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