So if you've been following my blog over the past few months you would know that I will have left for London today to start the D&AD Graduate Academy. My day started at 5:45 am as I had a train to catch! After struggling around the underground with my Luggage I arrived at Campus London (run by Google.. photos of the building to follow), this is where I am going to be based over the next month. Campus is an amazing building, there are 7 floors filled with creativity and technology and it is just amazing being part of it. http://www.campuslondon.com/
Today we had sessions with the Spring Project, it was an intense day which made you really think about how you communicate and receive information. We had two tasks set by the Spring Project at Lunchtime; the first was to ask strangers in the street what they thought they were brilliant at; the second was to do something creatively to improve the world. We were sent out in groups of three and told to do all of these tasks in our lunch hour, it was a really interesting experience. As we approached people we knew they thought we were trying to sell them something, but when we asked them the question about what they thought they were brilliant at their whole persona changed and they seemed to become happy and bubbly as they thought about the answer.
For our second task we wrote little notes and either handed them out as leaflets, or left them for others to pick up. Whilst handing them out I found that people initially thought that we were trying to advertise to them, but as they read the notes you could see that they became a little bit more happy, it was great!
So, today has been quite eventful! Most of us graduate academy attendees have agreed to do something over lunch to creatively improve the world each day for this week, I will keep you updated on my progress!
Also, the Awkward Noise Exhibition opens tomorrow with the Preview Evening at 7pm, it is @ UCP, Peterborough. https://www.facebook.com/events/335781213159820/
If you are in London this week my work will be exhibited at the D&AD New Blood show from Wednesday - Thursday at Old Spitalfields Market. http://www.dandad.org/talent/new-blood
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