Using social media to connect with creatives has be an essential element to my development within this module. Allowing me to connect with Ollie Olanipekun someone I aimed to connect with from the start.
Monday, 14 May 2018
Sunday, 13 May 2018
Sunday Evaluation
Evaluation
Working at Sunday for two weeks
was a good Idea of what it’s like to work in London, I didn’t enjoy it as
much as I had hoped. I was working on the social for Hammerson, I found this
work to be completely unrewarded, it felt useless and unneeded. It was beneficial
because it made me realise what to stay away from when applying for a job. I
still did learn a lot about how big agency’s run and everyone was very
friendly to me, talks with the editors and art directors for me was most interesting.
Shadowing the art director was the highlight of the time I was there. Overall
a valuable experience which I am pleased I did.
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D&AD Evaluation
Evaluation
Working at D&AD was a great way to meet new people, this gave me the opportunity to network and discuss Industry, work, personal interests with likeminded creatives who I would otherwise have never met. The great thing about social media is I can follow what each of them is doing and reach out if I ever need to. It also gave me access to speakers at the festival for free which in beneficial to my actually practice as I’m learning new ways of thinking or new perspectives on a topic. One thing that I didn’t like so much was they spoke a lot about recycling but had a serious lack of recycling bins. Other than that it would a really great experience and I would totally do it again.
End of Module Evaluation
This module was great for my confidence, at the beginning of the year I felt no confidence in approaching professionals but as we were pushed to do so and realise that most people are generally quite friendly. This made it easily the next time and then the next and the next. Emails would often take me weeks to write because of redrafting whereas now I can do quickly and efficiently
Personally, branding has been something I avoided because I felt it was not necessary until I went to D&AD and was asked multiple times for a business card which completely shifted my view. I really enjoyed branding myself I tried to keep the process fast and fun with my own personal traits informing the direction.
Placements were a big part of my learning this year and they were very helpful for gaining some professional confidence. I will continue to approach professionals and studios in the hope of creating links and finding opportunities. My next step is to go to Offf festival in Barcelona to do some more work while I'm there I will aim to visit some studios also.
My plans for summer are to first relax and regather my thoughts, I have a month internship sometime later this year and I would like to embark on my own research project also at some point. Hopefully allowing me to cycle around the UK and visit studios. And I will for sure brew my next beer!
Overall I have really enjoyed this module and within the three years it has become second nature for me to keep up to scratch with whats happening in all parts of the creative industry, I love going to talks and hearing about what the next big thing will be, this is something I will carry with me.
Personal Branding Final + Concept
Branding content is all based on my logo and the colour yellow. The typeface used was nimbus as this is an extensive typeface with a number of sizes and styles. I used the Nimbus extra Black for the logo as its very pronounced with an interesting N form. The name Jono can be used across content as a friendly shortening of my name because Jono is what my friends call me. The smiling face is a representation of me and my personal traits, as im quite a smiley person. Layouts for Invoice and cv were simple 6 by 8 grids. Shot on black to create a nice contrast and contemporary feel. I have then applied this branding throughout.
Offf Barcelona
When I signed up for D&AD I also applied for offf Barcelona, They got back to me the other day so I decided I will go for a short break to Barcelona and do this conference. I booked flights just now and I have set up a couch surfing account to try and find some accommodation.
Anne miltenburg 'Am I in this for the right reasons? Am I the right person for the job? Do I have the Depth it takes?'
This was a really interesting article to me because it exposed me to something I had not heard of before, It also was a nice insight into designing for social causes through teaching other something I had not considered before. Anne Miltenburg gave three questions to ask myself Am I in this for the right reasons? Am I the right person for the job? Do I have the Depth it takes?
It then lead me to a number of interesting companies.
Sunday, 6 May 2018
Exploring chance
Taking my cop practical piece further I have decided to use it as my research project, This means I must pin down the underlying question. At the moment it is around curation, open sources, code. This is important to my personal practice because coding is a skill I want to teach myself and attempt to bring into my creative process.
How is tech impacting curation
http://adht.parsons.edu/designstudies/plot/designing-in-liquid-times-generative-graphic-design-in-an-age-of-uncertainty/
Adam Griffins
after talking to Dominique about this research project she happened to know Adam griffins, who I had been researching originally. She has put me into contact with him so I need to just think of some questions to ask him.
Adam stumbled across the automated curation process by mistake. 'It stems from a lot of research I was doing in terms of our very contemporary, millennial attitudes towards collecting online imagery, be it through Tumblr, Pinterest or generally just saving and hoarding into folders and files.'
His work to me resembles the idea of chance this was a key focus of my research.
Relik is a publication created from “documenting a collection of automatic collages formed by negative voids left from bygone collages” explaining “These remains and absent spaces create a window into new serendipitous portraits and landscapes, emphasising and celebrating the art of chance.”
Interview topics
This sounds like a intresting project to ask about also: Research project, Terminal Sadness, for the past year aiming to explore “our attachment to the digital world while still having a human need for the tactile.” By appropriating “digital symbology and visual language off the screen” Adam questions how we use the digital age to inform graphic design into a physical output. By appropriating internet references “in the form of digital handkerchiefs, each produced at the same dimensions as an iMac screen, creating an eerie familiarity between the two states.”
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ra-bear-graphic-design-051016
Recommended The ‘DDDDoomed—Or, Collectors & Curators of the Image: A Brief Future History of the Image Aggregator’ by R. Gerald Nelson
very intresting to have alook a the influences.
'My influences change on the day to day, but some staple names on the proverbial dinner party list would certainly include the likes of Ikko Tanaka, Barney Bubbles, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Mitsuo Katsui, 8vo, Vaughan Oliver, Herbert Bayer and Rene Magritte. '
Unfortunatly I cant find this book anywhere. The ideas within the book seem very intresting with content and contect being thrown out the window for a more aesthicaly based culture of the online image.
How do you think space interacts with the curation process?
What was your inspiration for tansient space?
Does an image loss meaning when we take it out of context of does it create its own new meaning?
What are your thoughts of open sourcing content?
Feedback
Dominque
After speaking to dominque she helped me pin down what I am intresting in most these are
Chance : what happens when the process is out of our control such as scanners glitch, tumblr layouts, re feeding back, chance operations
How our relationship to the image has changed since new technologies have been introduced
The use of chance in curation
How we receive content in relation to its space, does this differ from phone to print
The idea of archiving
Where our content is coming from how algoryms are feeding us.
ALec
The future of curation
Watch: The square
Post internet
What roles will automation render obsolet
grafic bullshit - project
the choring test
enigma machine
quartz news app is exploring curation of news
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/amy-west-grafik-bs
Experimenting
Processing
An open source tool used to visualise code this is a great way to learn some basics about code while having some fun. After reading a few of the tutorials they suggesting learning from playing around with the examples library. I wondered if it is possible to use this as a way to generate random layouts possible?
Typeography
How is tech impacting curation
http://adht.parsons.edu/designstudies/plot/designing-in-liquid-times-generative-graphic-design-in-an-age-of-uncertainty/
Adam Griffins
after talking to Dominique about this research project she happened to know Adam griffins, who I had been researching originally. She has put me into contact with him so I need to just think of some questions to ask him.
Adam stumbled across the automated curation process by mistake. 'It stems from a lot of research I was doing in terms of our very contemporary, millennial attitudes towards collecting online imagery, be it through Tumblr, Pinterest or generally just saving and hoarding into folders and files.'
His work to me resembles the idea of chance this was a key focus of my research.
Relik is a publication created from “documenting a collection of automatic collages formed by negative voids left from bygone collages” explaining “These remains and absent spaces create a window into new serendipitous portraits and landscapes, emphasising and celebrating the art of chance.”
Interview topics
This sounds like a intresting project to ask about also: Research project, Terminal Sadness, for the past year aiming to explore “our attachment to the digital world while still having a human need for the tactile.” By appropriating “digital symbology and visual language off the screen” Adam questions how we use the digital age to inform graphic design into a physical output. By appropriating internet references “in the form of digital handkerchiefs, each produced at the same dimensions as an iMac screen, creating an eerie familiarity between the two states.”
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ra-bear-graphic-design-051016
Recommended The ‘DDDDoomed—Or, Collectors & Curators of the Image: A Brief Future History of the Image Aggregator’ by R. Gerald Nelson
very intresting to have alook a the influences.
'My influences change on the day to day, but some staple names on the proverbial dinner party list would certainly include the likes of Ikko Tanaka, Barney Bubbles, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Mitsuo Katsui, 8vo, Vaughan Oliver, Herbert Bayer and Rene Magritte. '
Unfortunatly I cant find this book anywhere. The ideas within the book seem very intresting with content and contect being thrown out the window for a more aesthicaly based culture of the online image.
DDDDoomed, crafted as a speculative fiction that unfolds from the perspective of a future commentator reflecting back and theorizing about the factors that brought about the dysfunctional state of the contemporary image world, tells the story of how the image (specifically, the online image) devolved in the hands of image aggregators (IAs).
IAs, as DDDDoomed asserts, in having “single-handedly pave[d] the way for a young and Internet-reliant culture’s collective disinterest in even the most essential content of an image,” have turned the image into an aimless one that is made intentionally devoid of its meaning, knowledge, and even of its most basic identifying information. Furthermore, it is argued that “by devaluing [the] image’s potency … IAs were effectively exaggerating the worth of their role by convincing the viewers of their websites that their assembled collection … was, paradoxically, to be the sole object of spectacle.”
Questions
How do you think our relationship to the image has changed in relation to new technology?
What is the rational behind your work?
How much does the idea of chance play into your work?
Do you have a list of sources that could possible help me?
Questions
How do you think our relationship to the image has changed in relation to new technology?
What is the rational behind your work?
How much does the idea of chance play into your work?
Do you have a list of sources that could possible help me?
How do you think space interacts with the curation process?
What was your inspiration for tansient space?
Does an image loss meaning when we take it out of context of does it create its own new meaning?
What are your thoughts of open sourcing content?
Feedback
Dominque
After speaking to dominque she helped me pin down what I am intresting in most these are
Chance : what happens when the process is out of our control such as scanners glitch, tumblr layouts, re feeding back, chance operations
How our relationship to the image has changed since new technologies have been introduced
The use of chance in curation
How we receive content in relation to its space, does this differ from phone to print
The idea of archiving
Where our content is coming from how algoryms are feeding us.
ALec
The future of curation
Watch: The square
Post internet
What roles will automation render obsolet
grafic bullshit - project
the choring test
enigma machine
quartz news app is exploring curation of news
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/amy-west-grafik-bs
Online Archiving
Experimenting
Processing
An open source tool used to visualise code this is a great way to learn some basics about code while having some fun. After reading a few of the tutorials they suggesting learning from playing around with the examples library. I wondered if it is possible to use this as a way to generate random layouts possible?
Typeography
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