Filed under: Degree
A designer must exercise practical and technical skill, an aesthetic sensibility and a knowledge of the consumer. Designers must also be skilled in the use of language – they must be able to write clear specifications, discuss ideas coherently and argue their points persuasively. These abilities are often underestimated. Artists need only express themselves on their own terms. They do not need to be technically proficient. A designer must be able to understand the needs of their audience. To do so, they must exercise a degree of detachment towards their work, weighing up the task at hand in a more dispassionate way than that of an artist.
I don’t think I write enough on here. The quote is from an essay I wrote during the first year of my degree. It’s called “Art vs Design” and you can read it in full after the cut.
Filed under: Discoveries
‘For those amongst us who favour entertainment of a more ‘experimental’ nature, the Moon Wiring Club is as infamous and inevitable as cod-liver oil. One might say that no gentleman whose adventurous instincts have not been warmed and purged by what is on offer here, can hope for much future in the English-speaking world.’
Dame Priapus Fripps, 1936
Filed under: Other
I spent ten days in New York this last July, 2009. I was based in Greenwich Village and enjoyed some of the happiest days of my life just walking around Manhattan in the sunshine with my headphones.
I’ve been searching for somewhere to present my work. Carbonmade is basic but effective and suits me right now.
Been very busy with two jobs and some unexciting freelance work. Travelling to New York this July, stay tuned!
Joan’s style hasn’t evolved as much as that of the other, younger characters in the show. It has however, been fine-tuned to absolute perfection.
Filed under: Fashion, Pop Culture, Style | Tags: 1960s, Betty Draper, Joan Holloway, Mad Men
It’s back! With even more sartorial delights. This first post is a general one – Betty, Don, Peggy and the office. Next time… Joan.
Filed under: Design Work
I’m in a symmetry phase. I’ve been taking old pieces of work and re-doing them using whatever elements I’m drawn to within them. It’s fun, if a little lazy!
