Task 2

Five companies/ studios synergetic to me personally:

Graphic Thought Facility, London:

Graphic Though Facility are my idea of a perfect studio.  

Taking on a multidisciplinary practice that utilises different 

processes and mediums to inject originality and 

maintain an element of fun in their work.

I myself love to create strong visuals, utilising all kinds of 

materials and processes to come up with an original outcome.

One of my main philosophies within my practice it to maintain

interest in what i'm doing.  If i'm not interested how can I 

expect anyone else to be? 


Contact info:

info@graphicthoughtfacility.com
Telephone +44 (0)20 7837 2525
Fax +44 (0)20 3603 8551

Graphic Thought Facility
23–24 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DS

Workroom, Korea (Seoul):

Perfect work.  Everything Workroom produce is 
considered alongside being visually engaging.
This multiculturalism within work is exactly what
I am looking for with regards to my dissertation.

Task 1

Re evaluating my aims:

Thinking once again about my aims for this year I
have come to realise that I have a much clearer
view of what I want to do within my practice.  

However, I have also come to realise that there is
so much I can do with my life past this course
(relating to G.D).  Scary stuff.

so, aims:

List five or more things that you know now, that you 
didn't before the Christmas break:
 - What I want to achieve this year.
 - Who I want to work with in collaborations.
 - How to speak to professionals.
 - Low level coding.
 - No matter how stressed I get, this is what I want 
    to do with my life.


Five specific things you would address differently 
than you did this summer:
 - Contact more studios.
 - Effective research into dissertation content.
 - Travel.
 - Not have a terrible, uninspriring job.
 - Understand more on type: go see some 
    debates, talks.


Five things that would be useful to address:
 - My terrible portfolio of contacts.
 - Grid systems!
 - Critical writing skills- more specifically
    dissertation writing.
 - Self branding congruency.
 - Sketch.  Visualise ideas.

Five things to address as a group:
 - Different methods of contact.
 - Different levels of contact in relation to
    the level of the person / company you
    are trying to contact.
 - Worries and thoughts with regards to 
    post uni life.
 - 

Five things you feel haven't been looked at
in PPD in reference to professionalism:.
 - When should you stop pestering someone,
    is it too far?
 - 
 - When to hand out a business card

Module submission, boards and evaluation

Briefs

Module Submission

Presentation

Brief 1
The Physics House Band:  Music promotion and art direction

Brief 2
Elements: The Evolution of Hip Hop:  Event promotion

Brief 3
SPUR: Creatives of Leeds:  Publishing

Brief 4
ISTD:'Books still...?': Publishing 

Brief 5 
Jukebox, HiFi: Event promotion

Brief 6
The Wardrobe: Blue Mondays:  Event promotion

OUGD301, Design Practice 3

Briefs

Project File, module submission

Presentation

Brief 1
The Physics House Band:  Music promotion and art direction

Brief 2
Elements: The Evolution of Hip- Hop:  Event promotion and art direction.

Brief 3
Spur: creatives of Leeds:  Publishing 

Brief 4 
ISTD, 'Books still...?':  Publishing

Brief 5
Jukebox: HiFi Leeds: Event promotion and Branding 

Brief 6
The Wardrobe: Monday Blues: Event promotion

Another crit: a biggie

Heavy stuff.

There was a lot of constructive criticism.  A lot.

- i need to do so much work.  Copious amounts of
  reflective evaluation and problem solving are going 
  to be in the pipeline for next week.

Networking, follow- ups and emails.

Through a gig in the bar I work at, I got in contact with
a couple of people who seemed like the knew their stuff
with regards to Hip- Hop, bookings & event management.

I got some numbers, spoke to a couple of people- I 
explained the whole concept of Elements and what it is
exactly that we want to achieve. 

A few days later I received a text from one of the people
I was speaking to, outlining his interest in the project
- hoping to be involved in some way.  Dialogue is as 
follows:


We're currently waiting back on an email to get an idea 
of how much involvement he wants within the project.

Me & Yaf are heavily hoping that this contact wants
to take on a large role within the project.  We are both 
quickly realising how much work this whole event will
take, and that it will almost be the death of us if we don't
get some experienced aid.

MEETINGS - economical thinking.

Today I set up a meeting with a nice lady from Footprint
Riso printers in Leeds for Wednesday the 7th November 
late afternoon.  This is a good thing.

Me and Yaf need to make sure we have some preliminary 
designs ready to take so we can get a better understanding
of what we can do with risoprinting, and they can get an
idea of what we're trying to achieve.

                                                 
                                                                    ALL GOOD THINGS.