Monday wasn't a very good day, therefore I didn't have any inspirations to write anything. I had slept way to little. We had our presentation which went pretty well.
In the evening I way to late went to the printer with my information demographics. We had to re-print 5 times. It took about 2,5 hours and it was really one of those situations you feel that you don't want to be in when working as a graphic designer. I tried to look above this day with hawk eyes and realized that I have to go through some printing problems in my life, why not start this day? So I did, and I finally got happy with it.
I went home to Malin, packed my bags and took a cab to the hostel – totally worth it. It was extremely sad to know that I will not live with Malin – we got along so well. Of course we will se each other, but anyway. It was nice to find the dorm I was about to stay in was a very un-party-room with sleeping quiet girls. 'Cause this will be my study – home for three weeks. I felt like a ”bratpacker” with a lot of stuff, my own pillow and blanket, and especially the evening after this day when Niclas and I drank some wine with cheese to go with it. Not very backpacky at all. Anyway, I slept enormously good that night and back in school the next day I was ready for new briefs. When I got home to the hostel again I was curious about running in Hyde park and so I did. Beautiful place!
This is our new briefs briefly:
Studio practice:
* Continue in our groups and work with same concept (we made a love hotel) but focus on marketing it with for example an event or something that goes well together with your brand. After that we will sketch and make mock-ups for packaging etc.
Symbols and distribution:
* In class we got an assignment. We got a document with fictional road sign names (not allowed change) where our task was to make up a “world” where this road signs would fit it's context. Since I'm really into feet for the moment, I named my world “Feetland roadsigns”.
* Also in this course, we are getting a task every week, to take 5 photos of different symbols that the teachers have talked about. For example religious symbols, clothing symbols, symbols that have changed their meaning etc. This is published on our own symbols blog.
* What's more, we have a really tough group assignment to work on for couple of weeks. We get to chose to do an environmental course or a course for the refugee problem in Australia. We are actually going out with our campaigns, and our missions is not to make people change their minds, but to inform. I haven't really chosen subject yet but I'm leaning towards the refugees thing, since I don't know much about it and since the rest of the world is trying to do different environmental things.
* For this we will come up with a symbol, both to represent each of our groups, but also the two winners to represent the two different subjects.
* In the end of the whole course we will make a symbols folio with all our assignments = book
Frameworks of design (my favorite course):
* Continue on branding our selves in the design business but now head more to the visual applications of our own brand. We will design our own logo, brand repeat pattern (wallpaper), business card to be printed for real, website mock-up, example of pdf based presentation that matches our brand, portfolio briefcase. This is going to be so much fun!
Typography and context:
* Continue creating a logo for a made up publishing company.
* In the end we are going to produce a 50 pages book about our course, our assignments and our experiences. We will need to print it and bind the book by our selves. Fun!!
Next week is called production week. We don't have any lessons and the week is not for holidays but to continue working at our projects.
Right now I am in a really good mood. I have been training the whole morning, eating and I just found a spot on the roof of the hostel where I can combine being in he sun (beautiful day) and working on my computer!! I will work until late this night, and tomorrow we have one class in Typography were the logos need to be made.
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