Revealing gaps, targets and audiences for a new product or service idea – Week 11

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: I think it’s easy to make assumptions about something you think is a brilliant idea, and then find out after some research that perhaps you aren’t actually answering a question or solving a problem that anyone needs solving. I think the important thing to do first of all, is to define your

Case Studies Exploring Trends and Outputs of Influential Studios – Week 10

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: This has really inspired me this week, I have done a few self-initiated projects within my practice, some of which have made me money, some of which were purely for fun and to enhance my skills, and have ended up helping me get work. I thought Craig Oldham’s views on this subject

Core characteristics, ethics and theory – Week 9

What makes an entrepreneur? Someone who starts and builds a business around an idea for a product or service. An individual. I tend to think of billionaires like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos. I tend to think of men… The last project really made me think about processes and tools, and that

Building new models and tools for Future Practice – Week 8

So over the last few weeks I’ve looked at collaboration and seen the benefits – bringing out the best in people, creativity, curiosity, efficiency, everyone learns more, the process can be quicker and something amazing and greater than the whole is the product. I’ve learned that collaboration takes place at every stage of a project,

Approaches and strategies for working today and delivering creative services – Week 7

Over the last few weeks I have already begun to look at ways that people can work together, and different ways in which you can practice graphic design within a collaboration. Designers can help convey information, tell a story and get a message across. I looked at Information is Beautiful last week, and there are

Interdisciplinary Insights – Week 6

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION The podcast with Louise Harries was interesting to see how people from completely different backgrounds can come together and create amazing projects. I really identified with the idea of using a design background as a way of exploring, researching and thinking about things in a different way. To me, being a creative

The Collaborative Mix – Week 5

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION I have to be honest, I am pleased to be leaving the first part of this module behind and moving forward! This week’s research, and this brief look at collaboration which is already something I have briefly looked at this module with my idea of a collective. I enjoyed listening the the

Business Foundations – Week 4

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION The lectures were a good place to start this week. I enjoyed finding out more about the publishing industry. I have been interested in working in this area for a while, I like book, editorial and magazine design. It was helpful seeing how other people work, how they schedule, and plan and

Business Foundations – Week 3

Research and analyse the basic pitfalls of illegal practice;Imagine and communicate the key areas that may infringe copyright or require IP protection in relation to a chosen designed object. RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: This is a complex subject, there are different ways to protect your work, or that your work could be used, and things to

Business Foundations – Week 2

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: I spent this week looking at the resources and also some of the other companies I’d looked at to get some ideas of how the studios are run and how they allocate hours and create quotes. I had this idea in my head (partly from my own practice) that each business works