Time Planning

Time management allows us to clear our minds for creative thoughts, allows our brain to function for professional practise before we stress/burnout.

It is possible by:

• Creating lists - hour, day, week, month, year, life
• Have to-do's, want to-do's, dreams and goals
• Know yourself
• Plan ahead 

I have found this article online which also includes a video that helps with time management. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219553

It differentiates clock time from real time as it says that clock time is exact time (60 seconds in a minute) whilst in real time, time either flies by or drags depending upon what task you are doing therefore time feels different.

The article tells you to take a 30 minute time out in the morning to produce a timetable of your day and do not start your day with one or you may find yourself stressed.

What's on...

Eine - 'Your Not My Type' 

Shown at Stolen Space Gallery, 17 Osborn Street, London, E1 6TD from 08.10.15 - 22.11.15

A solo show featuring an artist whose name is popularly known in British Street Art, Ben Eine. Eine is one of London's remaining street artists that specialise in graffiti in the form of letters. His work has been see worldwide in places such as LA, San Fransisco, Mexico City and many more. David Cameron gifted Barack Obama a piece of Eine's work during his first trip to Washington as Prime Minister.

Be A Sponge - 10 inspirations

Inspiration can be found anywhere such as blogs, galleries, books, concert, the street, socials, art, music, film, literature, dance, photography, fashion, architecture, friends and family. 

10 inspirations:

1. Design Milk Blog (Founded by Jaime Derringer) is an online magazine dedicated to to modern design. It offers fresh new art, architecture, interior design, furniture, decor, fashion and technology. They have been recognised in Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York and in various different books and magazines. http://design-milk.com

2. Miley Cyrus: Tongue Tied by Quentin Jones - Short film released by the lifestyle website 'Nowness'. Miley is seen engaging in sadomasochistic behaviours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VjXdWV9H6I

3. One Minute Briefs - Users that follow their Twitter account can send in quick design ideas from briefs that they tweet on their Twitter page. https://twitter.com/OneMinuteBriefs

4. YSP (Rob Ryan gallery) - Having studied his work during my A-levels and re-creating one of his designs myself, I appreciated his work more as the level of detail and dedication in his artwork are so inspiring.

5. People of Print - Website began in 2008 created by Marcroy Eccleston Smith along with illustrators, designers and printers both creatively and commercially with the purpose of educating and inspiring. http://www.peopleofprint.com

6. New Grids - Launched in 2011 by Thomas Bouillot. He blogs about designers (photographers, architectures, typographers etc.) that he likes and shares his inspiration them to others. http://newgrids.fr

7. M&S - The Art Of Design 2015 Autumn/Winter advert - Upbeat, fast cut video. Wide shot of paint being thrown at the models to turn their clothes into colours of autumn. Close up shots of the needles - showing the high quality of their clothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr_N3Tl2WTM

8. Style Noir magazine - A grunge type magazine that features mainly fashion but also recommends films and artwork. http://www.stylenoir.com

9. LFW - Water soluble dress - Designer Hussein Chalayan spring/summer 2016 collection. As water rained down on them, the tissue layered dress disintegrated to reveal the actual dress from his collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0XqKrJbqqM

10. Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman: Quotes on Shit - Send in your old/unwanted 'shit' and they would give it a new life by putting words onto the object to make it feel new again. http://quotesonshit.tumblr.com

Rob Ryan - YSP Exhibition

I didn't realise that Rob Ryan had an exhibition going on at YSP so during the trip, I was excited to take some pictures of his artwork and I find his artwork very dainty and fragile. I like how they are cut out as it make it stand out more as it looks like it is more detailed and delicate. I studied him for my A-Levels and I had re-created his work before and I found it difficult to hand cut it and not make mistakes. His work seems to be full of emotion and are mostly romantic which I find really sweet. 

The John Peel Lecture with Brian Eno

I listened to The John Peel Lecture with Brian Eno where he talks about the meaning of art/creative design. I found the lecture interesting because he said that we need to eat but we don't need to eat luxury foods, we have to wear clothes but we don't have to wear designers. So art can be simple and we do not have to over complicate it. He asked a interesting question which was "is art a luxury?" which it is not as everyone and anyone can be a creative individual and because art can be anything. He said that if you asked 20 scientists what science does, the majority would have the same answer however if you asked 20 artists what art does, there would be 15 different answers because he feels that we are not clear about the subject of creativity. Art is more than what you see because it always have a different meaning behind it so therefore people interpret it in different ways.

I found this lecture very insightful because the questions he poses about art makes you think how we are all creative individuals and how we don't have to be professionals to be an artist. He said that culture is creative arts in which he also said it should not be a luxury but a essential core in our lives which I found very inspiring.

Light Night - Leeds 2015

Light Night is a popular light show/festival event that happens every year in Leeds. It is spread out into 10 different locations in Leeds city centre. Light projection were beamed upon buildings and also in the sky. The locations that I managed to get to were Queens Hotel, Mill Hill Chapel, Millennium Square, First Direct Arena, Parkinson Building and Victoria Quarter.

In the Parkinson Building, they hosted a treasure hunt in which we had to solve puzzles from pieces of information from a book to spell a word to find the location of the hidden treasure. The treasure turned out to be a book from a special collection in which it was the only copy of its kind.

In the Mill Hill Chapel, they used a microscope to project a live micro organism onto the floor (6th picture).

Although I attended the Light Night later on in the evening, I thought the event was very inspiring as every location had its unique show and every part of it had significance to a story. However, I was disappointed that I missed out on some shows in other locations. My favourite was the First Direct Arena because it looked to bright and vivid. The light surrounded the whole stadium and illuminated the area and it looked inspiring.

Getting to know people - Design Studios

AH-HA

• Established in 2011 by Carolina Cantante and Catarina Carreiras
• Specialise in brand strategy, interior design, naming and identity work, advertising, new media, traditional and fine print, retail and product design, photography and illustration
• Studios based in Lisbon
  
  
  

Hey Studio

• Founded in 2007
• Made up of a team of 5
• Based in Barcelona
• Specialise in brand identity, editorial design and illustration
• Opened an online shop in 2014
• Worked with companies such as Apple, Vodafone, Three and Oxfam

Sagmeister and Walsh

• Based in New York
• Creates identities, commercials, websites, apps, films, books and objects for clients
• Both Sagmeister and Walsh work with Zipeng Zhu who is a Chinese designer living in New York

Hey Days

• Based in Oslo, Norway
• Specialise in logo, visual identity, web design and interface design
• Made up of a team of 6
• Mostly minimalistic/simple designs
• Commercially based
• Use social media as a way to broadcast their work and projects

Lust

• Founded in 1996 
• Based in The Hague, Netherlands
• Made up of a team of 16
• Specialise in print work and book design
• 'LUSTlab' is a a research lab in which they can experiment with different media and ideas

Studio Dumbar

• Founded in 1977 in The Hague
• Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Specialise in visual branding and online branding
• Provides internships
• Office based in Seoul
• On average, they have 5 different nationalities of staff 

Build

• Originally based in London but recently relocated to Yorkshire in 2015
• Founded by Michael C. Place and Nicky Place in 2001 (married couple)
• Worked with the likes of made.com and Nike
• Specialises in brand identity
• Had their work published hundreds of times in magazines and books worldwide
• They have their own online shop
• They would like to open a physical shop
• Consists of 4 designers 

Elmwood

• Founded on the 1st January 1997
• They are a brand consultancy firm
• Create there own design tools
• Own their own tea and beer brand
• Based in New York, London, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Leeds
• They mainly create contemporary designs

Bleed

• Based in Oslo and Vienna
• Won the European Design Awards
• They focus on identity
• They've worked with the likes of IKEA and Diesel
• Everything they create are inspired by the existing parts of their clients company 
• Identity and display are their priority

Face

• Founded in 2006
• Employ 10 designers
• Based in Monterrey, Mexico
• Specialise with web design and brand development
• They have designed for companies such as MySpace

Dessein

• Founded by Geoff Bickford and Tracy Kenworthy in Perth, Australia in 1987
• Specialises in branding, signage, websites, publication
• Their work is illustrative and they use photography in their packaging
• They have a team of diverse cultural background that consists of Italian, Indian and Korean

Wolff Olins

• Based in London, San Francisco, New York and Dubai
• Founded in 1965
• Founded by Michael Wolff and Wally Olins 
• Created the London 2012 Olympic logo
• Worked with companies such as EE, Skype and Cancer Research

Having not knowing any studios, I now have 12 studios that have created logo and brands that I already know but never knew created; such as who created the 2012 Olympic logo.