Curate, Create, Created.

CURATE, CREATE, CREATED.

A book by Isabella P. Michael

Curate, Create, Created.

By Isabella P. Michael

About me.

I’ve always believed that a picture is worth a thousand words and that’s why I decided to go into a creative course like Graphic Design. Originally from Greece, I decided that moving to London was the best idea and I knew it would give me the opportunity to progress and improve. I enjoy incorporating people into my art, using their emotions and their memories to create great and original pieces. Creating books has become a huge passion of mine also. Being creative, be it through word or paintbrush, has always calmed me and I love having the ability to share my work with others.

Creative Industry Practice (DN5001) Module summary This module is intended to enable designers to gain experience and understanding of working practices within the creative industries. Through working on projects that reflect real-world situations, you will consolidate both disciplinary and creative skills, develop professional confidence and navigate individual and collaborative approaches to working.

Projects will provide the opportunity to explore in-depth professional ways of working, encouraging students to foster creative imagination and critical judgement, and to develop individual and team-working skills to real-world problems and opportunities.

The module is driven by workplace goals, objectives and constraints in order to develop, test and extend knowledge and understanding of professional practice and employability. Particular emphasis is placed upon the completion of agreed practice-based outcomes to a professional standard within agreed timescales, promoting confidence in communication skills, including visual and verbal presentation methods. Professional ethics, social enterprise and entrepreneurial strategies will be explored, debated, and applied to produce creative solutions.

This module develops your ‘learning for work’. Within the module, you will gather work-related experience through live or simulated projects. You will gather employment transferable skills, desirable and advantageous for employment. You will foster your ability to develop and present your creative ideas to a professional client relevant (or adjacent) to your overall practice/ employment intentions.

Studio 5: Open House

The workshops...

In the studio we had several workshops, such as: Experimenting with typography and textiles.

Markmaking and collaging.

Bookmaking.

Music collaging.

In addition, we were always encouraged to experiment on our own with different materials, textiles, colours, etc.

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The projects...

Inform - Reform - Give Form Poster creation (analog or digital)

Lead by Society or market: Book (physical)

Examples.

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Planets and their names’

Title: erics solars systems Flickr user: Eric Vanderpool Downloaded on: 10-03-2015

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Fit for Purpose: Collect and Curate.

Analyze This: A packaging design project

Dot to Dot: Book (digital or physical)

The Berry Dictionary.

The idea behind the berry dictionary is to show different types of berries and their translation in other languages.

There a lot of fruits that are berries, but people do not know it and a lot of fruits, such as strawberries, that are not, but they are still thought of as berries.

Example page.

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berry Language given is Eng-

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H HEBREW S SPANISH SWEDISH HINDI I ITALIAN

T TURKISH

J JAPANESE U URDU V VIETNAMISE

A ARABIC

K KOREAN

B BULGARIAN

L LITHUANI- W WELSH AN Y YORUDA M MONGOLI Z ZULU N NEPALI NORWEGIAN

C CHINESE D DANISH DUTCH E ESTHONIAN F FRENCH G GERMAN GREEK

P PERSIAN

Letters O, Q, and X have no language starting with, therefore not included in the list.

Under the Influence.

Under the influence of:Tim Burton We were asked to create a 15 second video that would contain image, text, and sound.

After research on ways to do a video, and exploring different techniques and phone applications, I was finally able to create my video under the influence of Tim Burton.

His work has been very influencial to me. I find the way that he works in darkness and shadows, yet with usually big bright eyes, very inspirational and appealing.

The Nespresso project.

My work in the Fuego Beans team was to research a little bit about Cuba. We wanted to understand how Cuba works in order to know what to keep and what to leave out in The Quest to Cubania.

In order to achieve that intervied people and along with another member of the groub, Tara Robins, we took some photos to show how Cubania coffee can influence someone’s mood towards happiness.

What is Cuba in 2014? - Cuba is an acrobat, that keeps diving into the air without a safety net. In conclusion this is the hugest structural difference from the West ..

The difference thought, comes from the people. People of any age; kids, men and women are strolling around, chilling in the streets, laughing, teasing each other, and feasting in whichever way pops in their heads.. They're not "playing".

They all probably come from the saying, " Life is what happens when you, and any you, are planning something else." Or as I say it. Cuba!

They live without guilt, without entering in the whole of logic to explain why the one or the other happened. They live life without any complexes, as it emerges and without letting alter their alter constitution or their value.

The first feeling you get ( when you're not prejudiced and miserable) when you land to Havana, and you reach the coastal avenue Malecon, what I see...

Simply it doesn't exist.

If you get there at night, the lights, the noise, that are diffused with musical voices, that they cross from somewhere, they make you think. What is all that?

The whole dĂŠcor is complimented by the classic cars, those from 1950, that most of them are well preserved, polished, convertables, and just beautiful.

The cigars are the smell of Cuba. They provoke you with their freshness to try them. And without an interpretable reason, you drink so much rum in Cuba, and don't get drunk. Something that if you think about it afterwards, you will wonder how were you drinking like that. The answer is simple. Is the whole package that pushes you to try everything.

Stelios Bratsolis

Thought of the week.

Kate Moross

“On your own, I think, it’s very difficult to just, sort of, plack originality out f thin air and that’s why I like to focus on good ideas.”

Typography...

Patterns...

Geometry...

Sophia Chang

“Let’s rock with it, you know?

Whatever!”

“Use social meda as a source to be inspired and a platform where I can, kinda, share my voice and my thoughts. ‘

Sagmeister & Walsh “The heart of most creative work is purposeful play.”

“The computer is an amazing tool in the creative industry, but it’s not always the right one for every single project.”

CCS Case Study Objectification of women and sex promotion for advertising purposes In the early 1970’s Allen Jones presented his exhibition “Women as furniture”. This exhibition was considered sexist and provocative, and a lot of people accused him of being a forniphilic ( forniphilia: is an extreme form of bondage because the subject is usually tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for a prolonged period. They are often gagged (see forniphilic gag) and/or placed in position where there is a danger of being smothered). At the same time women’s liberation and feminism were rising, which caused even more reactions when Jones decided to, literally, objectify women for his project. In addition, in the 1970’s there was a lot of nude, mainly female, and sex promotion used for advertising purposes. However, this was not for advertisements of everyday products, but predominantly for advertisements of music discs.

As the decades were passing by, though, the female figure started being the main character in most advertising campaigns, and the image that was projected was usually, half naked women, that looked really sexual. Women were, and still are, being objectified and “forced” to promote sex, in order for something to look better. Jones’s created a series of sculptures with women-objects, but through time large incorporations and advertising agencies took advantage of the female figure, and used it for promoting their products.

In the 21st century, women objectification and sex are everywhere. On television, magazines, newspapers., even fliers that don’t need it. And that’s happening because, advertising companies made the consumers believe that the more nudity and sex they see the better the product would be. However, this false advertising has convinced people that is right for a woman to be objectified and only be wanted for her body. And even though today feminism is at it’s it prime, not much are being done to change the situation of how a lot of women are treated and what is shown on advertisements.

Nevertheless, women being projected as “objects” is not the only problem advertisements have developed over the years.

Sex is being presented, either directly or indirectly, in most of today’s visuals. In the times this generation is going through, sex liberation is one of the things that are on top of the list. Sex is not considered a taboo subject anymore, especially to young people that can relate it a bit more, since they have been so exposed to it. However, this does not mean it is appropriate in every occasion.

In this case study, there will be analysed the borderlines between wrong and right of using, mainly naked, people and sex to promote a product, and the ethics behind it, by showing how from Allen Jones and his exhibition, the female body and sexual act became a promotional mean.

What made you smile today?

I believe our life is a journey, that I choose to answer with the simplest answer; What made these people smile the day I asked them. Even the smallest thing, such as a cup of tea. Think about it! What made you smile today?

Personally, every time I think of what makes me smile, I start laughing. I think it would be amazing, being able to collect all these smiles. Because even in the saddest day, there will always be something that will make you crack a smile. Those two seconds will be the relief on those days.

I think by meeting new people you can find yourself.

That is the reason why I chose not only people I already knew, but even total strangers I stopped on the streets, that by throwing a question at them we created a memory together. It is nice to add one more smile to someone’s day, just because you asked something so simple.

But the min reason I chose this question is because I want to remember all those small and maybe unimportant things that makes us smile.

Usually, the simpliest things are the ones that count the most in life. Those are the ones that make our days brighter when we remember them. And I m planning to make all my days shine with small happy memories,

Notes from talks Travel journal from Berlin

Inspiring words.

Garth Walker (I-Jusi magazine) “Whatever you want to do, has already been done.”

“If you deny something, they want it more.”

“If you behave like a professional, you’re been taken seriously.”

Prof. Phill Cleaver “Conceive ideas that you won’t be needing computers; They’re just tools, they don’t do anything.”

“If you can’t solve a problem, get an illustrator to do it!”

“Symbols have their own meaning and the meaning we give to them.”