Creative exchange week - YOU by Jamie Kirk
I decided to attend a workshop during the creative exchange week by Jamie Kirk (a D & AD academy graduate winner) called "You" problem solving. He graduated from Huddersfield uni last year and since then has worked for an advertising company in London and has now moved back up to Yorkshire and is a freelance designer and illustrator and has worked for companies such as Krispy Kreme.
Firstly he showed us some of his illustration, advertising and animation work which I thought were really good and that he has a really nice style of work. We were then given the task of writing down our daily frustrations after he showed us some of his. I wrote:
- Waking up - because I would rather stay in bed
- Getting ready - doing hair, makeup an clothes is a lot of effort to do in the morning
- Flatmates not washing up and leaving dirty dishes out for days
- Remembering to defrost food - forgetting leads to ruined tea plans
- Being late to lessons - the thought stresses me out
- Needing a wee a lot - sometimes toilets aren't in reach
- Cooking - I miss my mum. I can't cook.
- Cleaning the bathroom - No one likes this chore
- Flatmates not taking the bins out - seriously? It stinks.
- Tidying my room - hate the mess but too lazy to clean the mess
- Laundry - takes ages and is damn expensive!
We were then asked to write a similar list but for our current project on sense of place and what were struggled with throughout the process. I said:
- Thinking of ideas
- Planning the pages
- starting the sketchbook
- sticking work in
- time management
- layout
Writing this helped me realise what I am struggling with and what I can work on. For the final workshop Jamie told us to write down words that we associate with ourselves ie our favorite things or things we do. We had to write the things most relevant the biggest.
These are my words. I have included things like food I like, television shows, hobbies and musicians. Sleep is one of the biggest because I love it. Bastille is also large as it is one of my favorite bands. Once I had written the words I decided to transform it into a rocket because the shape I had written the words in reminded me of the body of a rocket.
