Who has To-Do Lists?

I like them. I have multiples of them. Perhaps that's not so productive. Gina has some tips to make to-do lists do-able here.

"use specific, active verbs"

Class doodles

It all started with a teacosy, and ended up a page of British Tea Time.

I have teapots on the brain with our current SOMETHING FROM NOTHING project. It's going quite well I think, so far...I'm managing to keep an open mind and not plan ahead to the final product. I am actually really enjoying the concept behind it. It's all about an idea being completely separated from the subject, sort of. Take a random object [mine being a teapot-shaped tea infuser] and play around with it to see what happens.

I had a trick when I was little and didn't know what to draw. A friend of mine wrote down words on bits of paper and I would choose one out of an envelope when I was feeling creative. This project is a little like that. Maybe that's why I like it.

Can anyone think of a film/scene/song/story/artwork that features a teapot?
'I'm a Little Teapot' has been mentioned already, sorry.

Paper Trickery

This is a cool bit of paper engineering.
[DON'T PANIC...IT'S JUST A NOTEBOOK]

Crew Design: Time Lapse Magazine Spread Layout

I found this whilst researching. Yes I got distracted. But this IS infact related to what I'm researching. No, it really is.

Crew Design: Time Lapse Magazine Spread Layout

View...especially if you think your friend/child/co-worker isn't doing much at all on their Graphic Design course. Mum.

Wood Type

I really do like this sort of thing. I think I am gaining more appreciation for typography since I started the course...it was definitely something I was not interested in.

 

{FOUND VIA ALANNA'S BLOG HERE}

Now, I would happily have some type on my walls...probably in a font that 'real' Graphic Designers would hate me for. Graphic Designers with typography are kind of like wine connoisseurs; they know the difference between a full-bodied red and a crisp white.
I just drink whatever I think tastes good!

I have decided to choose Handmade Typography as the working title of my essay for Critical & Creative Approaches to Design this semester, and I am in the process of developing my own personal project involving words and type.

Look at me go!

Wood Type

Even Graphic Designers have leftovers. I'm all for wood type at the moment, be it letterpress blocks or wallart...is this gorgeous or what?

Find the original post here.

Classroom doodles

You can doodle at the pc...even with a mouse

IdeasTap

Jo just introduced me to a new network/portfolio site IdeasTap.

I haven't had a chance to look around the site fully, but it seems like a very good way of meeting, and potentially collaborating with, other creative people. You can set up a profile and portfolio, and use this to advertise your talent for profit. The site is a charity organisation so free to use, and free for employers to advertise jobs that they need filling.

I think, for all us students, exposure and networking is one of the biggest challenges for us, as the only creatives we see are the people at university. Apart from the odd exhibition or collaborative project, the university doesn't offer much in the way of helping you get your name out there.

So here is a way for us to get started!
Even if you only meet one person, who knows what it could lead you to.
Add me to your network here.

Huf Haus

This is my favourite build on Grand Designs. Im watching the tail end of it now for perhaps, the fourth time. I know alot of people will not like the fact that it is pre-made in sections, many won't like that it's German. But you know what. I love all that.
Why not have something that's part-built away from your nice plot of land. I suppose it's like flat-pack. And I love flat-pack too!

Glass. Big glass panels. Open plan spaces. Split roofing. German engineering. Surely no-one can deny them of that one!?

I would have this house in an instant [in white of course]...my problem would be choosing from all the designs in the Huf Haus Show Village!

[Love this street in London]

 

[Huf-Love]

New Finds

Everyone knows I'm a sucker for inspirations online, be it blogs, photo share sites or even things people say on Facebook.

Is it a good or bad thing that one of our tutors has given me two new sources for such wonders? I can spend hours click clicking my way through blogs about cakes, how many days will I spend looking at graphic and illustration things now!

Has you found Delicious or Stumble Upon?
You can find me here and here.

Be warned, you will lose your weekends.

[SHINEY BINARY via STUMBLE]

[MONAUX via DELICIOUS]

Back to Business

Today marks the end of Welcome Week at uni.
We had the usual Health and Safety talks and our 2nd annual GETTING-TO-KNOW-YOU cross-year trip. This year, we all took at trip to Felixstowe. Which although was somewhat draining on the brain [!] it did get me thinking about the year to come and what I want to get out of it.

I'm proposing alot of new things for this year, including practising new techniques, more drawing, a personal study group and a reflective journal. This is something I had to do whilst at [A DREADFUL YEAR AT]Colchester Institute, that I found very helpful in recognising how I work as a designer...the things I enjoyed and the things I found I needed to work on.

Can't wait to start our first projects. Roll on Monday!

Intermission

I know it's almost over BUT...

The art-blog will be offline until I'm back at uni :)
For my current ramblings check out my personal blog here.

See you next term!