Monday, 7 November 2016

Reflect on Manifesto's

Anna's seminar this afternoon did not follow the earlier lecture, as this lectures was for Sara to introduce her past work/jobs/life. So this seminar was relating back to manifestos which we focused on in my first ever Monday seminar. We looked at Daniel Eatock and his work to get us started, and were then handed cards with different words on, which would then help to produce a series of positioning statements which reflect my own approach to visual communication. The words are listed below:


process                          open
product                          avoid
believe                           movement
form                              eliminate
stillness                          functions
question                         practice
concepts                         make
reveal                             logic
rules                               disrupt
influence                         material
ideas                              challenge

  • Time can't be controlled or avoided
  • Don't think logically just make
  • Challenge ideas and logic
  • Avoid starting too late
  • Discard logic
  • Makes detailed judgments or your own work
  • Rules, limitations, form... can all be unwritten
  • Just do it
  • Practice through influence
  • Question rules, challenge yourself
  • Influence takes ideas, practice takes time
  • complex is better than simple
  • Explore the unexplored
  • Avoid comparison
  • make influence 
  • Allow creativity to embody the mind instead of allowing them
  • Stillness isn't always a bad thing
  • explore every alternative/variation
  • Eliminate any doubt
  • Movement is only possible when boundaries and rules are e
  • believe in your product/ideas
  • Disrupt stillness, influence movement Movement creates form
  • question ideas
  • Disrupt the everyday rules challenge/break the rules
  • Eliminate logic
  • challenge concepts