Screen Printing Fun

Something I have come to really enjoy is screen printing, this is a skill I learnt in level 4 and had no previous knowledge of. I decided that I would create some prints for christmas presents and cards. This way I could practice and have some fun with experimenting. I created a christmas card design that includes my dog and created to prints for members of my family. I did the whole screen printing process alone and did more mixing colours with ink. Overall I had fun doing so and I feel more confident that I could do screen printing within a module.

Glug Event

Last week I attended an Creative event called Glug Leeds. Located in Munro house leeds I saw 7 talks by creative people and found it vey inspiring, I wrote some notes for each talk, what I found interesting. Overall it was a great experience to be surrounded in an friendly environment by creative people.

Build

• Inspired by music
• The Graphic Language of Neville Brody
• You think that London is where you need to be, but that is changing
• It is liberating to buy a studio space and be able to live and work in a different place
• Doing a huge range of projects is both an advantage and a disadvantage
• We try to partner with people who are talented in their field like animation.

Studio 12

• Started at uni
• A place to be creative, experiment, have a space to learn.
• They change the course and facilities on what you advise us.
• We bring in mentors to work with people
• Writing Britain (Ma) The power of dreams
• We give people a platform into the industry
• Its always about solving a real life problem
• Do not limit your creativity to those around you, push recourses and boundaries
• Understand and respect others creativity and make it work with yours, you need patience.

Intern Magazine

• You are the only person that sets the boundaries in your career
• No one would give me a job so I thought I will make my own
• Young people are trapped in a cycle of unpaid work
• We believe that young people are the future
• Creative work has value
• The hardest thing is deciding what you want to do
• Challenge gender pay gap, fight for diversity
• Age is just a number
• Do not underplay your value
• If you follow the herd the view wont change

She does digital - Encourage Women in the creative industry 

• Epiphany
• Be a role model
• We develop digital talent in leeds
• Leeds Digital festival
• #Wheredidyoustart?

Creative Life - Matt Essam, Freelance 

• Studied new media at leeds
• Started freelance with a friend on his course
• I would take on any job, problem, you attact nightmare clients who don't pay much money
• The 4 hour work week Timothy Ferris
• Alan Watts, what would you do talks
• Our values are the things that are important in our lives
• Authentic Creativity, Creativity is driven by passion, purpose and values
• The portfolio lifestyle
• Identify what you really want
• why do you want these things?
• Find ways to put values in your life.

Only Studio

• 5 lessons
• Be nice to people
• Maximise every opportunity
• Share your passion
• Be brave
• Do good work

Chris Kenworthy

• Freelance
• What do you stand for?
• What do you believe in?
• Have a vision of what you want
• Fear- get rid of it
• It can be lonely and hard
• Business is based on trust
• You get highs and lows, however there are more highs
• Free thinking, independent people, who motivate themselves and are well organised and adaptable. 
• Do friendly favours
• Know your limits, know yourself
• Relax, something always turns up
• There is no such thing as the right price
• Theres no shame in small
• No one really knows what there doing !
• The human freelancer - book

Age of the Zeal

Hollie Clarke who does Fine art at the college put on a exhibition night that is for her art work. It included live acts and art, photography and sculptures. Going to this event was like nothing I had seen before and got me talking to people on other courses within the college. Overall It was a good event and I will be keeping an eye out for other students events in the future.

Final Labels

I gave my final Labels to the school and they put them up in the correct places. They were really happy with the final outcome. I found the project challenging but rewarding as I got to see my final outcomes being used. I found it difficult to work to the short timescale I was given but I managed to finish it onetime. When I saw how they put up my work I thought that the ribbon choose looked a little bit messy in certain areas. I shared this opinion and they are going to rearrange the ribbon to look neater but overall it was a success and unlike any project that I have done before. Hopefully there will be more projects I can do for them soon.