Saturday, April 26, 2008

dutch design

everyones seems to be pretty impressed by dutch design at the moment and wanting to go on exchange to the netherlands. I would love to help you guys or give you information about other schools here in holland but yeah you really just have to look a little for yourself and see what interests you. In my experience and as i heard from other exchange students the dutch design part, yes you'll be exposed to it, but then whether you learn something from it really comes from your part and how you make use of it. It also depends what school you go to. I mean i don't know how other schools go about it, with mine it's... yea i dont really know how to explain it but its not like they teach you how to make dutch design. But exchanges are great i'm all for it, plus if you go here you do get the opportunity to meet other people who do make great design, and i would make full use of visiting as many studios as you can like experimental jetset, 75b, dumbar etc.etc. I lost track of what my point was to this post. Good luck though :D and yuh if i can be of any help or anything let me know.

dutch design & fabrica

Hey just wanted to add something quickly because some of you seem to want to go abroad...i am looking for a way to do that aswell actually but i will have to figure it out myself since i have become to old to stay in school for much longer and i can't get funding that eassily anymore...

...the netherlands are great i think...i visit a lot of seminars and lectures about new media and topology/mapping...everytime (just like yesterday in fact:) ) there are some dutch people with great stuff...as a belgian student i have always looked more at the dutch design than what my own country has to offer since we are still little slower:)

anyway in the future i would love to work with some dutch people i got to know a bit...the person i am going to start a graphic studio with also went to a dutch college and she is full of it...a friend of mine is going to talk to her because she also wants to go to the netherlands next year...so if you ask me dutch design schools are really interesting...

I have read some stuff about Fabrica in Yutsak's post...i have been to a lecture of the head of the graphic design department...omar vulpinari...i must say i expected more from him and fabrica...i found their work a bit to much in the advertising business and it wasn't that spectacular...they just have great contacts/clients with a lot of money most of the time which isn't that interesting to me as a graphic designer interested in typography, mapping, ... he also seemed to say that he looks a lot at how a portfolio is presented...for example if you send him a box where he has to put his head in to see pictures of your work...the box would be original enough to remember you and the chance would be great he would pick that person...i kinda have a problem with that because i know some people who wouldn't get picked because they would send in this classic styled portfolio...because they want their work presented in a sort of way that draws attention to the work and not the protfolio, mmm the packaging (hope this is clear what i mean to say:s)...so i was worried that he doesn't really look at the work itself...but just at the packaging...anyway you may correct me if anybody thinks i am wrong...i am already too old to apply so doesn't matter to me that much...just like to have more discussions on design...and the education of it...i think that is important...to share opinions that is:)

O.k. first of all...sorry people that i have made all of you wait...but in this master year it suddenly got stressy and busy as hell...i also contributed to an exhibition in Brussels since it is 50 years ago that we had the world expo in the city...even had to do interview with german press about that...which was funny especially that little moment of silence between your own explanation of your work+'and if there are any questions...?' and the actual fire of questions...

Anyway no time a lot of stress and well than that colaboration piece gets lost somewhere between the clutter of that desktop and a few feet arround it:s

The good news is I just pushed myself in doing just something quick so i can send it to the next person...what did i do?...euhm well...just like Eline i found it a bit hard to do something...but cartography and mapping seems to become the theme so...i transformed one of the basic things you find on city maps...'the you are here circle'...i made a rule to find a place for it on the page...based on the 'golden section'...and instead of being a mark on the map i tried to make it more of a window...

i couldn't put as much time in as i wanted and therefore didn't do what i had planned (adding a whole extra, transparant layer...) but hope you all like it a bit in some way...

Friday, April 25, 2008

Long time no see.

Hello folks!

Sorry I haven't really written much in the last couple of weeks....
I had an stress allergy (I didn't know such thing exists!) for a week,
then I went to Berlin for a week and then to Milan for two weeks.

O o o good times I've been having!

Stockholm weather is nice. It's warm and I can go out with a thin jacket (yes, not warm enough for just tshirts yet!)


I was in Milan during the Milan Design Week 2008. Saw some good stuff.....to all the Dutch people here, YOU ALL ROCK - I was really impressed by the works from Eindhoven Design Academy and also other Dutch designs....so I have basically decided that will be my next destination.

Fabrica was also doing some cool stuff....is or has anyone applied?? I am thinking about taking a year off to apply....or possibly do an exchange if it's not TOO late. So if there is anyone who wants to come to Konstfack (..maybe you, Eline?) We can exchange :)))) Hehehe....

I am still looking at some schools that are still accepting applications...so let me know if you know of any!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

It's been a while!

Soooo since it's been kind of dull on this blog lately, I figured I should post something.

Hmmm.  Well, Yesterday I got to go "behind the scenes" at the Walker Art Center and talk with their senior designers and design fellows, which was really interesting and it motivated me to work even harder.  If you're interested, definitely look into their fellowship program :)

And tonight Judy Chicago ("the dinner party" lady, feminist artist) came to talk at my school which was ... wellll..... interesting.  I thought it was fascinating and a great talk, but my sister thought it was bad and I think it may have pushed some buttons or pissed off some people. 

Anything exciting (or boring, whatever) going on with any of you? 

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Classes!

Hey Guys,

so I registered for my classes today, and I'm really desperately hoping I get in to each of them.  I'll hopefully be taking 4 studio classes and 1 liberal arts:  electronic pre press, motion graphics, print paper books techniques, and publication design.  Liberal art would be a class called myth and ritual.  It'll be super intense but I'm really looking forward to it!

Do any of you guys choose classes soon or anything like that?  F-U-N!!!!!! (or maybe it's just me that thinks its fun, haaaa ha)

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

how is the collaboration piece going? by the way ^___^

Friday, April 4, 2008

BEST APPLICATION EVER

maybe not.  But it is super helpful.

Anyway, it's this application called Plie which a classmate told me about. You can download it for free here and if you have a document that you want to print in a french-fold format, you export it as a pdf and then drag the pdf into this application and it will reformat you a whole new pdf that is ready to print, French-fold style!!! YAY

....I might have posted about this before. So if I did, sorry!