first school day
September 3rd, 2007
“Happy new year!” we said to each other in the morning. And it’s fitting. The fall is always a new start for me. I feel a lot of things are changing - shifting. I like it, I feel awake.
One of my goals this year is to report here more on what I am doing and learning at school. Writing things out like this will probably help me make sense of my education and perhaps even be of interest to someone.
One other thing I decided on today was to start a proper skethchbook/scrapbook/notebook for school, similar to the ones I kept at fashion school. It worked wonders in clarifying my design style and will probably work again. Also I hate it when I feel like I have nothing much to show for my work, a few grubby sketches maybe and a finished project. I want to chart the process too.
I go to a great school, and I really want to experience that to the fullest, that’s why I am trying to concentrate on school more and cut back on work projects now. I feel last year I just waltzed it through… well getting good grades but nevertheless… I was pretty burned out in the end. I hope to spend a bit more time socializing and just lazing about as well.
Today’s highlight was the presentation of Dai Fujiwara at the opening ceremony of the university. He works as a creative director at Issey Miyake (one of my all time favourite designers). I love the A-POC concept. It reminded me what I really want my future work to be - developing ideas and concepts.
The rest of the week will be about more inspiring people. Starting tomorrow we have four days of nothing but guest lecturers talking about things relating to graphic design and design (and sometimes life) in general. It was excellent last year, so I hope to be inspired…
And on Friday there is a party.