Creative Presence: Brief

Part 1 - Blog
Collect, categorise and reflect on a body of investigative research, creative references and respones to set taks in the form of your PPP blog. you should make regular posts to your blog that demonstrate an increasingly individual/independent exploration of graphic deisgn, the broader creative indistries and general visual culture. You shouls use this brief as a starting point for the development of anincrasingly informed understadning of the nature of contemporary graphic design proactices and their role in our local, national and international culture. 

• what you have learned
• how you have developed
• creative ambitions
• complete study tasks and use them as starting points for you independent research activities

Part 2 - Creative Report
Building on your familiarisation with the creative industries and prompted by the need for even more engagement with professional contacts, you are required to seek out an industry practitioner or practice who you will base a report on. 

The completed report should utilise your skills as both a creative and a researcher and make use of material drawn from at least one personal interview with an appropriate spokesperson to then culminate in an insightful overview of a contemporary industry figure its organisation. Your interview can be carried out in person or via phone, skype or email. Supporting sessions will offer guidance regarding the approaching and interviewing of subjects. 

• digital ISSUU publication
• communicate your interview subject's route into the industry and identify where 
• 500-word creative report

Brief Interpretation
This would be a good opportunity to look at a particular type of designer or working method. I am really interested in travelling as much as possible so this could be a good opportunity to contact some nomadic freelancing designers. I would concentrate on finding out how they got into it, get regular work, make money and also how long they spend in each location. 

Reading list

• Airey, D. (2012). Work for Money, Design for Love. Indianapolis:New Riders.
• Arden, P. (2003). It's Not How Good Your Are, It's How Good You Want to Be. London: Phaidon.
• Kleon, A. (2014). Show Your Work. New York: Algonquin.
• Sagmeister, S. (2013). Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far. New York: Abrams.
• Ward, C. (2013). Popular Lies About Graphic Design. Barcelona: Actar.