Making progress! Cycling hat in @bcgarn #bioshetland #organicwool
Working through the colours and deciding which ones to use for a vest.
#knittingallthetime #knitting_inspiration #designquestions #designersofbc #knittersofinstagram #wooladdict #knittingwithcolour #hatknitting (at Nanaimo, British Columbia)
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Questions?
Looking for Answers in the Middle of Somewhere
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European designers answer students’ questions about their craft.
Designers Marietta Eugster and Manuel Krebs (Norm) from Switzerland, Wayne Daly and Veronica Ditting from the UK, Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) from the Netherlands, Monika Maus from Germany, Boy Vereeken from Belgium, Vier5 from France and Honza Zamojski from Poland answer student questions about their craft.
#Metahaven #DesignQuestions #StudentDesigners #GraphicDesigners #DesignAnswers #LookingforAnswers intheMiddleofSomewhere
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Questions?
Looking for Answers in the Middle of Somewhere
Available at www.draw-down.com
European designers answer students’ questions about their craft.
Designers Marietta Eugster and Manuel Krebs (Norm) from Switzerland, Wayne Daly and Veronica Ditting from the UK, Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) from the Netherlands, Monika Maus from Germany, Boy Vereeken from Belgium, Vier5 from France and Honza Zamojski from Poland answer student questions about their craft.
#Metahaven #DesignQuestions #StudentDesigners #GraphicDesigners #DesignAnswers #LookingforAnswers intheMiddleofSomewhere
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Completed first 7 rounds of the flowers pattern… Yes, No… good idea, bad idea?
#questions #designquestions #laceknitting #lacedesigner #letissierdesigns #flowers #flowersofspring #impulsivekal #pishawlkal #circularshawl #laceshawlknitting #kaunilace #kauniyarn #kaunieq #knittingwithbeads (at Nanaimo, British Columbia)
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When policy overrides design toward subjugation and cultivating a culture of mistrust, no amount of calculated occupant load or foot traffic circulation planning can save the intended architectural experience for end users. Does design have to end when administration begins? #policyvsdesign #planning #fallinline #subjugation #designquestions #askthearchitect #ianfulgar (at Greenhills Mall)
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How can we use design to entice families into the CBD?
How can we bring joy and happiness into an inner city service lane?
How can we use design to make shared spaces safer for pedestrians?
How can we design public spaces for more personal interaction and a community feeling?
One of the questions that comes out of everyone’s mouth when they hear that I’m studying it.
First “graphic design is a type of language, you use it to tell somone about something that they want, or that you think they want or even that someone else thinks they want. You could begin to list things more specifically, like this: It’s for selling things and ideas to make money or to further political and social agendas. But then you realize: It’s also for critiquing such behaviours. It’s for making things clear - saving lives even - but it’s also for enriching our everyday lives through the addition of layers of complexity, nuance and subtlety.
It’s for helping people find their way and comprehend data, but it’s also for helping them get lost in new ideas, fantastical narratives or landscapes, and to question and contest what information is presented.”
Graphic design is embed in all aspects of social life. From the signs that tells a driver to stop at intersections and the label that show’s how much sugar is in our food, to the title that graphically let us grasp the essence and theme of movies.
The thought of design having a clear purpose or being for something is archaic. It’s thinking that belongs to a time where fundamental truths existed, design is not as simple as to be corralled into a single definition of use. Design is for communicating with people: with a specific or general audience, participants, costumers, subscribers, passers-by. It’s for communities: small like locals or special interest groups, and larger ones, like populations and global consumers. Then it comes to the point on how much you treat that audience.
There is designers that design for themselves and pay no heed to their audience, some design for others designers, some design for clients concepts or wishes of the audience in question. Others, like myself, find which is gonna be the receivers of their work and what appeals to them, and even ask the same ones for feedback to evolve their work.
“Graphic design helps people to distinguish ideas, make choices, orient themselves in the day to day. It happens that graphic design can also create an enormous amount of pleasure and satisfaction in those who generate it and those who see it.”
From what I see, graphic design exists to express ideas or to distinguish them, even if someone reaches the same idea as anyone else is our function as graphic designers to make their idea distinguishable and unique as possible from the others that surround it. It gives a presence to it. If someone as a place they want to share with the world, the graphic designer signs the audience through the facility to make the experience more enjoyable and memorable.
If a social issue arises and need urgent attention, the graphic designer is the poster or the free newspaper that reaches the public.
People around me often think of graphic design as one of the functions of marketing, historians see graphic design as a “social ephemera”-things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time- and graphic designers see it as art. I see graphic design as the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content.
What does more visible, critical, and expansive technology look like?
How do we interrupt (marginalizing a/o oppressive) cultural assumptions in powerful, creative ways?
How can I avoid, in my own work, participating in the acceleration of unsustainable, thin value?
@soulellis
What makes a good designer?
[[MORE]]We spent 30 minutes constructing our ideal designer, using cardboard boxes and post-it’s!
Some of the recurring themes that came up were:
What do you think makes a good designer?
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: How can a designer return of underdevelopment countries or earth?
Not only fashion industry, most of the design products are resource expenditure. We have a high quality living space but we seldom thanks to the labors or even the nature resources.
“People aren’t going to care until it hurts them personally.”, said Shannon Whitehead.
For a little designer, what can we do for our plant? For the poor like us live in the same earth? For the serious question, my first idea is to design reproducible product and use environmental resources.
(VIDEO via–> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pu-8l3V5aE)
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: Design is such a huge challenge, but in somehow we can separate into three steps: inspiration, ideation and implementation. Which part is the hardest?
I often search plenty of artworks, designs by net or books while I get a new brief. In many time I got very little pieces of idea from each of the design works then to collect, recreate them. Sometimes it can be a great try! But I often break down the ideas and rethinking.
No matter what we are trying to design, there are always some common skills and steps that any designer could follow. However, for a designer, we want to do something DIFFERENT! And we all knew that, breaking through the traditional is not as easy as we often tell.
: What will you do if there is lack of design resources?
Have you ever got a great idea and excellent plan but lack of design resources? Yet, sometimes I spent lot of time trying or fixing. I was wondering if I have a great idea but cannot design it by the limited resources. So, how long should I keep thinking and where should I stop to move to next idea?
: How can you be masters of the art?
“What I’m trying to say?”, “why I’m doing this?”, I often asked myself while started a new project task. I felt upset because the answers sometimes are: everyone is doing like this! it’s modern style! However, modern design which can be difficult to define. Have you ever follow the trend then lose yourself?
: How can you be confident to take feedback and criticism?
“Endless rumination (negative thinking) won’t help either. Instead it’ll just undermine your self-esteem and waste your precious energy. “– Elly Prior Counsellor. Praise and criticism, through part of design, we need to spent time with them, even though the negative language sometimes are so strong that can end up feeling miserable, angry, hurt and so on. How can a designer be confident to take these feedback and criticism?