designers for the creative report

experimental jetset
-type
-print 

Hyper Oslo
- Webdesign 

by north
-branding 
-packaging 

stockholmdesignlab
-marketing
-packaging
-print
they explore unconventional packaging and marketing using simple designs  

bløk design
-identity, 
-packaging
-editorial
-websites

node berlin

Bedow Stockholm
durable branding, publications, papgaging and more.

wwave design
-branding
packaging
-multi media

revert design
-print
-identity
-exhibition
-interactive work

anyways

anthony burrill
-type 
-print

in Leeds
Split design ltd
-branding
-packaging
-exhibitions
-posters
-web
-typefaces
-print


robot-food
- branding
-packaging

b&w studio
-branding

saul studios
- visual identity
-publication
- web
-exhibition 

tall
- digital marketing 

Josiah Craven
- marketing
- print

passport.
-branding 
-print design

why

These designers are all exploring type within branding and packaging with a varied approach where some work within digital media in addition. they all have a clean yet fun approach to design.

what
Don't ask shit questions, you'll get shit answers. - Helena 2019


what advice did you find most helpful after uni?
how did you get into your style of design?
what are some of your inspirations within graphic design?
what artists do you look up to?
how does the agency work as a whole?
do you believe your music taste reflects your design style?
do you listen to anything when you work? podcasts? music? radio?
what was the last film you really enjoyed?
what made you decide to work in a studio? 

creative report recap

a publication that investigates a contemporary practitioner/studio/organization.
meet people

initial research
what do they do?

our manifesto

key parts
charis has the full one

clean up,
don't be a dick,
log of the computers,
volume down,
talk about your work
be honest

manifesto

Formal written text telling what they want to achieve. 

it does not have to be heavily political, thay can be simple too

Bauhaus 
Anthony Burill
John Cage 
Wieden & Kennedy 
manifesto mania
manifestoproject.it

1000 words manifesto
it is honest about the industry and the need to produce lots of things 
its takes up the idea that you should make one good thing once instead of 50 things badly and also produce things that can be fixed and let people believe that they can 
stop making crap

an incomplete manifesto for growth
Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.


first thing first 2000
Adbusters 
Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. 

10 things I've learned 
Milton Glasser
Some people are toxic, avoid them.

the cult of done manifesto

Bre Pettis and Kio Stark

Banish procrastination. If you wait more
than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.


the Edenspiekermann manifest.

Edenspiekermann

We dare say no.
Saying yes is often just laziness.

pesto manifesto

Peter Nowogrodzki

about creating something worthwhile out of something mediocre. 

manifesto generator 
Call your grandparents today

untitled

Kesselskramer

Life is too short to spend it with assholes.

work hard and be nice to people 

Anthony Burrill

work hard and be nice to people 

humans 
MIke Mills

OBSESSIONS

Stefan Sagmeister

Obsessions make my life worse and my work better.

cool designers

schedule
do they like their job
are they hiring
weekends
do they have a life
where are they based
rent
emails
get clients
collaborators
How much do you change
Some studies in Leeds?


Hyper Oslo
RM-OK
Patrick Thomas

in Leeds
Oslo agency
- robot-food
catalogue
- b&w studio
- Split design ltd
Analogue
- saul studios
tall
bml-creative
Josiah Craven
passport.
Bolser

ppp briefing

3 briefs
it's about figuring out what you want to do and archive and how to get there.
what sort of designer and what target audience do you want to work with?

blog fun stuff.

bound book fair

BLOG EVERYTHING relevant

10th of march
week 22

submit and there is a presentation after the hand in.


sb 1
creative report
select and investigate a contemporary design/practitioner/studio/Organization in order to produce a report based on their background, everyday practice, studio culture and current place in the industry.
need to do an interview
research

how they are organized?
how much they charge?
how do they work?
find someone young esk.

background /kay research

small studio
large agency
freelancer
media
design festival
startup
blogger
podcast
gallery

report publication and the blog is the deliverables

former hand-ins
Emma Blackman - insight
Tom Clague
Will Hibbert
Neve Ball - industry advice - (benjamin caraton?)

sb 2
life's a pitch.

group for an exhibition/event or creative opportunity
must be exciting!
best pitch can be produced.
design boards for this brief

27 club
shy bairns -new contemporaries
colours may vary
the Tetely gallery- the house that heals the soul
plant room - the archipelago
Ficciones Typographika
Rabbithole

sb 3
personal presentation.
formal presentation.
talk about the time here.
who am I as a learner and designer?
what do I aim to explore further?
deliverables are the presentation in the hand in and showing up and showcasing it.

podcasts
design matters
99% invisible podcast

studio culture - the secret life of the graphic design.....
how to be a graphic designer without losing your soul.
oh shit.. what now.
make it now!

rm ok
experimental jetset