w.i.p work in progress magazine
issue one autumn/winter 2009
cover robot by Adam Grant
http://octopandarobots.blogspot.com/
CONTENTS 2
Finding patterns
illustration by Martina Dahl
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Recycling illustrations
paper reindeer by Liz Osborne
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Sunday roast result
experimental cooking by Ana Estrougo
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Is originality non-perfection?
questioning creativity by Renata Petrekova
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Light & magic
insillation my Anna Molan
This is an experimental project on magazine formats by Daisy Dudley. For more on this project visit http://isthisamagazine.blogspot.com/
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FINDING PATTERNS illustration by Martina Dahl
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RECYCLING ILLUSTRATIONS cut out by Liz Osborne
http://www.lizzabet.blogspot.com/
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SUNDAY ROAST RESULT Today I decided to make a chicken roast. I wanted to take some photos of a raw chicken and also, of course, to try a new recipe. Lovely aromas of thyme, rosemary and lemon (inside the cavity), carrots, onions, the white vegetable I always forget the name, garlic, celery and olive oil. This is the first experiment of photo illustration. Experimentation • Physicality • Discipline text and illustration by Ana Estrougo
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IS ORIGINALITY NON-PERFECTION? Research by Renata Petrekova.
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ir Ken Robinson is well-known speaker for his uniqueness of conveying important messages about human creativity & education with great humor and passion. Last night I watched his talk on TED.com called ‘Out of our minds: Learning to be creative’. I have found this talk very interesting about how education system could affect our creativity throughout life. Robinson thinks, that ‘unpredictability of our future is extraordinary’. In the exordium he mentions three themes that raise an issue of education system that nurture’s creativity. ‘One is the human creativity evidence; second is about a place where we have no idea what’s going to happen, in terms of the future, no idea how this may play out; and the third is about nonetheless of children capacity for innovation’. When I was small I used to like to draw and sing. I remember the time of going to after school drawing classes and singing lessons. I was 5. I had a dream of becoming a singer. But it never happened. Who is to blame? Should I blame myself or my parents for not fulfilling my dream or was it the fault of our education system that squander our talents or abilities? Robinson’s contention is ‘that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status’. Why children are not frightened to take a chance? Why adults are afraid of not knowing something? Why being wrong or not good in something frighten us? Everybody learns from own mistakes. So why we
are not ready for not being perfect? Is originality nonperfection? I’m working on drawing investigation of LCC students. And I found this talk interesting. In my case of research, I have started to understand where the problem of using drawing may come from. Yesterday, we had a group presentation about our visual strategy research. At the talk of my presentation Darren (our tutor) raised a question about why people, in general, see drawing as a perfection skill? What lead us to this thinking? Why people don’t like expressing their ideas on paper? I’m repeating this, is it the fault of our education system? Why I had never gotten ‘A’ mark from my drawing class? What was wrong with my drawings? Didn’t I express myself well enough? Or was it the reason of not being perfect in one’s eyes? As Robinson remembers what Picasso once said, ‘that children are born artist. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. If we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it’. He asserts that his arguments on ‘the hierarchy within the arts in education system’ are rooted. The top positioned subjects are subjects considered for their usage for work. ‘Don’t do singing, you’re not going to be a singer; don’t do art, you’re not going to be an artist’. And the academic knowledge mostly overshadows our creativity, because people weren’t valued for what they are naturally good in. What is my view of natural intelligence? What is yours?
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‘Should I blame myself or my parents for not fulfilling my dream or was it the fault of our education system that squander our talents or abilities?’ Ken Robinson
Robinson says: ‘We know three things about intelligence: One, it’s diverse, we think about the world in all the ways we experience it. We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically. We think in abstract terms, we think in movement. Secondly, intelligence is dynamic. If you look at the interactions of a human brain, as we heard yesterday from a number of presentations, intelligence is wonderfully interactive. The brain isn’t divided into compartments. In fact, creativity, which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value, more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things. And the third thing about intelligence is, it’s distinct’. Sir Ken Robinson on TED Talks – http://blog.ted. com/2006/06/sir_ken_robinso.php (accessed on 22.10.2009)
http://renat0p.wordpress.com/
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LIGHT & MAGIC Pins and Needles by Anna Molan
http://annamolan.tumblr.com/
All content from the project blogs of students from Design for Graphic Communication (BA), LCC.