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On Tuesday 13 May I had the great privilege of submitting our Design Research Proposal.
The proposal outlines our project objectives, research methods conducted, design constraints, audience, proposed outcomes, visual reference and much more.
I took on the role of putting the proposal together, with fantastic assistance from my team members. Although the most important outcome for the proposal was the written content, we all agreed that it was important to present the document with strong visual communication as well. I think the end design of the document and layout of written and visual information has come together really well, presenting a strong identity which can be carried through to our related design applications.
Some key spreads from the proposal can be found under the Culture Hub Design Proposal page on our group blog.
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I’ve included some links for some of my ‘favorite’ designers from the conference.
On Friday I was very lucky to meet 4 of them, as they came into the studio where I work to catch up with my boss. It was a wonderful opportunity to talk in person to such a talented group of people – Patrick Thomas, Bruno Monguzzi, Sara Fanelli and Anette Lenz.
Sara Fanelli, Illustrator (London)
www.sarafanelli.com
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/8-sara-fanelli
Patrick Thomas, Graphic Designer (Barcelona)
www.patrickthomas.com
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/32-patrick-thomas
Bruno Monguzzi, Typographer/Designer (Milan)
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/20-bruno-monguzzi
Anette Lenz, Typographer/Designer (Paris)
www.anettelenz.com
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/14-anette-lenz
Christoph Niemann, Illustrator (USA)
www.christophniemann.com
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/23-christoph-niemann
Richard Seymour, Industrial/Product Design (UK)
www.seymourpowell.com
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/29-richard-seymour
Ab Rogers, Interior/Exhibition Design (UK)
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/26-ab-rogers
United Visual Artists, Lighting/Visual Artists (UK)
www.uva.co.uk
http://www.agideas.net/speaker/40-united-visual-artists
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- You learn so much more from the things that go wrong
- Bob Gill: “Seek the mundane in life, the drudgery, the commonplace, the ubiquitous… and replace it with minor magic”
- Have no breaks, see no boundaries
- Watching before listening
- Technology is so far ahead of us that our imagination hasn’t caught up
- Social networking: A way the world can connect itself to the rest of the world
- Start at the end; Find the truth
- People are ready to talk back at the same power as ‘they’ do: via the Internet
- So where is the future? (It’s behind you…)
- We have a responsibility that goes way beyond what we think it can
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I was umm-ing and aaah-ing about whether to attend this year’s AGIdeas conference or not, but after my boss told me it was one of the best line-ups to date, I thought I better get myself a ticket.
And I certainly wasn’t disappointed; in fact it was an incredibly inspiring 3 days.
Below I have documented some key points that I took from a range of speakers throughout the conference. They are quotes on design, on the human condition, life in general, and other random thoughts. I am hoping to turn these quotes into a book, as a personal design piece, which I hope will continue to inspire me and perhaps others also…
Christoph Niemann, Illustrator
- Have a broad vocabulary
- Fast computer + happiness = $
- Collaborate with your audience
- Build on the existing and ‘twist’ it up
- Do things just for yourself
Ben Frost, Artist
- Extend your work to different mediums
- A good idea always comes from a truthful place
- Develop your own world and your own language
- Find a personal interpretation of the brief
- Trying to make sense of the world
- The whole page is the canvas, including the text
- Even in a world of colour, there is always black
- Everything you learn through the struggles, takes you where you want to go
- Go against peak-hour traffic
- Design doesn’t have to come from good taste; bad taste can produce good design too
- Life’s too short to be one person, so become as many people as you can
- Be open to the journey
- Consider the choices: see where it takes you
- Feed your creativity; travel; see new things; look at cultures
- Make your own tools
- Collaborate in the creative process
- Scare yourself
- It’s ok to make mistakes, but make sure you learn from them
- Word of mouth it is
- Look into the past for inspiration for the future
- Luck and hard work
- Let your work come from a genuine place
- A good idea should work in black and white
- I wanted to change the world; first with a pencil, then with a fist; but of course, eventually I was changed by the world
- Objectivity vs. Subjectivity
- Have the guts to disobey the brief, the rules, the trends
- Brand: A cluster of cultural ideas
- The audience is the departure point, not the end point
- Books: opens up the writer’s head and thus opens up your head and new ideas
- The end is always a means for a further end
- “What if” is the thing dreams are made of
- Keeping the childish spirit of curiosity and fearlessness
- It’s in the willingness to make mistakes that innovation and creativity really flourish
- Something new from what we know
- Stripping objects of their design functionality = new possibilities
- You can draw something that’s impossible to make, but you can’t make something that’s impossible to draw
