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The shapes of objects in your design may be sending a message to users that you aren’t even aware of. Whether you put an image inside a square or circle or triangle can have an impact on what people think about that image. Sometimes a shape is more than just a group of connected lines. […]

This project was a part of my semester at Engelsholm's electronic music course, which i attended in the fall 2016. The idea was to do a live

This documentary is a personal project by Sean Pointing where he had documented Dave Dixon and what skateboarding means to him. It is a lovely insight into his personal perspective on creation and skateboarding and from that I have learnt something from that, making my perspective on skateboarding different. This is what I want to achieve through my project, changing ones perspective on passion but not necessarily through film in the end result.

Documentary with the photographer Aaron Feinberg on how he captures his beautiful photographs and a glimpse into the funny character that he is.

I am looking at documentaries to examine how to capture an individual speaks about something they are passionate about.

Amsterdam born and raised, Sean van den Steenhoven stumbled into graphic design during his time playing bass guitar in several bands. “It was, and I’m sure still is, very common to create your own visuals for upcoming shows,” he recalls. After falling in love with this DIY approach, he decided to apply for the University of the Arts Utrecht where he is now in his final year studying graphic design.

Interesting read on Sean Van Den’s progression in his development of becoming a graphic designer, discussing how he gets involved as much as possible with each project, he believes that if the designer is with the client project from the very beginning of the progress, it helps the process and ‘designs its self’.

I find that his design theory and methodology is to be true and I agree with him on that but with this execution of his designs they feel very generic with compared to current design, as the design alone doesnt standout.

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Zygmunt Strawczynski loves to travel. In this presentation, he shares what he's learned from traveling to places that were mostly off the beaten path, and how he realized he could become very rich by selling frisbees at the Tiananmen Square. "Presentation of the Day" on July 29, 2013.

Zygmunt Strawcynski talks about why as humans we love to travel, to see new things and new cultures. Explaining what he has learnt but in conclusion we travel because we are curious about this world that we live in.

"You can see how there is an emotional tie to the land and for a lot of people the idea of having a much more solid border going through their landscape was quite a horrific thought." In The Debatable Lands from PechaKucha Night Galashiels Vol. 5, Zoe Childerley discusses The Debatable Lands of the Anglo-Scots border through photography and mapping based on her artist-in-residency at VARC in Northumberland in 2016.

Zoe Childerley presents her completed photography documentary project on the Scottish boarder, the project took her 6 months to complete and on it walked along the boarder, she met numerous of people and went back to them to interview to get their opinion on the matter.

With this Pecha Kucha it is more about her project and what she has learnt on it that with the Pecha Kucha by Alastairs Humphreys he puts forward his way of thinking and how anyone can adopt it.

Alastair Humphreys is one incredible person. He has cycled around the world (it took him 4 years), raced a yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, canoed 500 miles down the Yukon River, and walked the length of the holy Kaveri river in India. He also ran the Marathon des Sables (finishing as one of the ten fastest Brits despite breaking his foot during the race), and rowed to France with Major Phil Packer -- a soldier paralysed in Iraq. "Presentation of the Day" on June 15, 2013.

Alastairs Humphreys shares his extreme adventurous stories and how we can take the perspective that we have when we are in a new culture and environment and integrate it into our everyday lives to change the mundane experience. For example; he explains that instead of getting the train or coach home for Christmas he decides to walk, or that after a conference in hotel in Scarbra and instead of staying in a hotel after, he slept on the beach for the night and then sprinted into the sea at dawn, jumping back on the train into London. With the sense of adventure you must take yourself out of your comfort zone.

A redesign of French epistolary novel Dangerous Liasons.

The reader has to turn and rotate the book in order to read the content, mimicking how the two main characters from the content open letters.

The content is on Georg Büchner’s ‘Woyzeck’ where the the protagonist Franz Woyzeck deals with life in poverty, humilitation and rejection. In order to support his unmarried wife and son, he takes part in an experiment which leads to him hallucinating to the point where he becomes insane. When Woyzeck's wife becomes unfaithful, his jealousy and insanity drives him to murder her.

The designer has used a pair of red glasses that accompany the book allowing the reader to see the event from Franz Woyzeck’s perspective.

A great example on how the designed has used a key principle from his content and translated it into design, and translating that too such an extent much further than the layout on the page but designing the physical experience.

An editorial piece about where a Europeans man skeleton was found that previously wanted to annihilated and to never be found. The book was designed to reflect the secrets of the story that is being told, sections of the content is printed with UV ink that can only be seen with a UV lamp that comes with the book; therefore the readers is searching for the content just as they searched for the skeleton.

The format is designed in parts and in different sizes because the designer believes that memories are complex and each part represents a different part of the memory.

It seems that the term grit goes hand in hand with passion, and that it doesn’t matter how good or bad you are at something, that grit and determination matter more than any other quality for success.

A youtube video explaining how that the majority of people believe that you find passion but in reality you must such for it, quit things until you find that subject that you foster. You don’t just find passion you must cultivate it.

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