Day Brief - Context YOU!

Explain who you are, your values, your identity, your purpose...in terms of who you are as you, a person not who you are in terms of graphic design. This is telling, not selling.

Task one: Know who you are
Task two: Communicate it

My Response:

The first brief of the year ahh: In theory, it should be an easy brief but finding that essence of 'you' i found rather difficult without being too lame and cheesy. 

I created a mixed media collage from found materials around my desk. I have used the quote "less inspiration more self-creation" written in my own handwriting. I often find I can spend a lot of my day looking at design, Tumblr, reading blogs, making pinterest boards etc etc. Sometimes I find it difficult to have a creative insight when you’re just looking at everyone else’s visuals. I find some image sources such as Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram etc, to be the very antithesis of inspiring - I could literally spend hours looking at what has already been done, rather than moving forward and creating something new. Filing my mind with other people's ideas and styles I found stunted my own making by making less room for my own original thought. So this year I intend NOT to spend so much time, sourcing 'inspiration' but more of my own self-creation, to be more expressive with my work. I am not too worried about having a specific style as style is temporary and its more important to have good ideas, as well style can go in and out of fashion.

I have also used iconography in my collage, which symbolise research, strategy, idea generation, and delivery. Four elements that I find are the most important during any project.