LCC

One thing I can say about this year is with out a doubt I have learnt a lot. If you asked me to create something on photoshop, indesign or illustrator this time last year I’m not sure if I’d even have been able to open up the software. I came on to this course with background of art at college and doing my art with a pen and paper never using a computer.

I can’t lie and say I think I’ve found my footing in the creative world, or that I think I’ve found a subject I’m hugely passionate about. I constantly struggle with the idea of my future and where I want to be, what I want to do and even who I want to be. I thought coming to London might start to sort some of these things out in my head, instead I just feel like, and pardon the cliché, a needle in a haystack. Being part of UAL means I’m constantly surrounded by creative and interesting people I definitely am inspired by what is constantly around me within LCC. However when I look around I also see people that are more talented and more suited than I am. Which make me feel that

Looking at the GDF from the first term I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. My design, content and ideas was all in all pretty poor. I’d never had to fit to this way of thinking before, having to think about the client, audience and message. It’s all in the title, Graphics for communication, but it had just never really occurred to me before. I was all about making pretty pictures and paintings. I still definitely hold true to my main focus being about the visual aesthetics. I want people to look at my work and enjoy it for its visual qualities, I’ve never been much about portraying a message. I think this is also definitely reflected in the two GDA projects. I’m not that great at sticking to a brief…that is something I definitely need to work on. I think I just hate working within rules, I have an idea in my head that I need to reach the utmost of my creativity, and when given colours and fonts to use I seem to rebel against it, resulting in the main idea not coordinated.

For example, for my second GDA project I’d been set the simple brief of coming up with a branding for myself. The branding I used for myself was the idea of “I HATE” so it was a list of all the things that I hate. The list was every open to anything that came into my head which came form facebook to fat people. I enjoyed this because it opened my eyes to that I can hate a lot of thing and I really should just go live in my own little word. And the end of this project the feedback came back with It would of worked better with I love part of it but I thought it will bring the strength down on the other part the I hate.

I do genuinely feel like I’ve learnt an invaluable amount and the struggle have taught me a lot about myself. I do tend to stumble at the never-ending hurdles that come my way but somehow I’ve managed to make it to the last week without giving up, and I have no intention of giving up! I love being part of LCC, and I also really enjoy the classes and projects, I really like the idea of being a designer. I want to continue to learn and progress because I know everything I’ve learnt and will continue to learn will be of huge importance in whatever creative field I end up.

Being on this course has opened my eyes to the vast resources and inspirations there are for creative desingers. I never looked at blogs before this year and now I’m constantly scrolling through blogs but the turbble is that I do not enjoy updating my own blog I like to keep my work to myself which isn’t the best when im trying to become a designer, etc. The internet and blogs as a medium Is so important and having been made aware of it I can now learn and progress so much quicker and easier. For example with websites such as www.ffffound.com,. As well as the huge amount of galleries there are in London, The Tate, National Portrait Gallery, V&A, White Cube, KK Outlet, etc.