I'm a designer and you want a what? Seriously?

My mind has been wandering towards the PQ exhibit design lately. I only say wander because of the three other shows that I'm in the midst of with people who think my devotion should be only to them. No, that's not always the case, but I do throw myself into things a little too wholely some of the time.

Tom e-mailed us for headshots this past Thursday. We needed them in two days. This sent Collin and I into a little fit of discussion and then off to create something. What would you expect to get as a headshot from a designer? Let your mind wander. Though we followed the rules, we didn't want to at the start.

I always find that step before putting pencil to paper to be the most difficult and that is where I am at the moment. My favorite part, the research is over, the mulling has happened. Now the next place to go is to put my work out there for my co-designers to look at and respond to.

I have images in my mind. Most of which are probably beyond our means, but if I never get them out, how will I know?

I went to the Guggenheim and spiraled my way upwards through Frank Lloyd Wright's life of design. The night before I gaped at Richard Avedon's eons of fashion photography. Now its time to create a space to display our work, our colleagues work. When you put it that way, there's a bit on our shoulders now, isn't there?

Clambake of LAST month (that would be May)

I should really have posted this sooner but, as things tend to, it got put off.

The invite to Clambake came up last minute, but it was a good thing. And since it was nothing but a simple train ride into the city for me, it wasn't an upset. Collin got to come into town as well, giving each of us a sounding board.

I believe that we stirred up some interest over the course of the two hours that we meandered, spoke to students and dropped cards on tables. We collected cards from people who we didn't get to speak to and I put them into a mailing list for future use.

There was one person who was "yea, I'm going! I'm excited!" The opposite end of the spectrum was the question of money: how do I, as a young professional, get to Prague? That is a difficult question. Once out of school, there are less options for grants and you kinda have to work it out on your own.

The point in recruiting this early is to give people the chance to raise that money. It's still two years out, being June 2009 at the moment, giving time to put pennies and dollars away. But in a day and age where we're all putting pennies away to feed ourselves, who's thinking about an international trip two years from now?

Decide. Deciding. Decided. Decision.

I'm organized. Some people laugh when I say that. But I love staying organized AND organizing other people's big messes (doesn't mean I'm CLEAN, keep that in mind).

So, I decided to take charge of this whole database. I've got time, I've got database history...what could go wrong?

First off, my brain is revolting this week. I cannot sit down to work for the life of me.

Second, I can't seem to hit the correct keys most of the time. Half the time I spend working, I'm correcting my misspelling etc.

Third, I feel like it might never be done, though I am starting to come to terms with this part. How can you find every school in the nation with a design program? I'm not sure that we can. But I understand that we can only do our best.


On anther note, I'm glad for the title.

Emerge.

A little static, but a decision.

And decisions are good. That is decided.

USITT Cincinatti, OH 03/09

We had our first team meeting in Cinci and I probably should have written this that day, so as to have remembered all the details.


Things I remember:

-Nice give and take amongst the student team with the direction we needed to keep us on track. WAY too little time to start the engines, but we got somewhere in that first meeting.

-I felt like the timetable was disorganized and that things could have been laid out better to allow the student team more time to speak together. The schedule going into the meetings was not prepared well, so I hope that next time, we can have more advance notice of when we have to be at a location for meetings.

-It felt like even though sitting through the National team meeting was advantageous in some ways (ie - to have a grasp of their process), there were parts that were a waste of time in my opinion.

-Generally, I felt like we touched on everything that needed to be dealt with in some way. A base was created for future conversation and detailed plans to be made.


Glad to be started and to get moving on something in relation to this exhibit.