Blogging for Five Years
Sneaking in before the end of the month, though technically, I post this after midnight.... Still it's kind of nice to see a sort of unbroken line between all my posts after the last five years.
It's been interesting looking back at the last five years, while I would like to do a fuller reflection of my life over the last five years, a much fuller reflection on how far I have progressed, it's something strange looking back at what I thought I would be doing and where my life has gone.
It's funny looking back at the first few posts, back in 2005 I was expecting to move into a 'job' in the traditional sense very quickly. It's certainly not turned out that way. I'm still working out what that means, I don't count it as a failure and it fits part of a future article / blog post on 'future attitudes to work' but I can't say that I have had a job in design which is what this blog was intended to document. While those of my Peers at BIAD have gone on to take places in the London Design scene and elsewhere (but mostly London, which seems to be the measure of success, how strange?) What was I intending from that point? Was I trying to get into the design scene? what kind of designer was I? I say this because at BIAD there was definitely some confusion, I was aiming to do online, but without experience of online if that makes sense, lots of conceptual work but how to make this practical...
Then came RCA, and RCA experience was good, I learnt a lot and it's caused me to adjust the way I think about things. There's different things coming from my RCA experience that are coming forward that I didn't necessarily pick up from the time, I'm still processing what comes from that, even two years out. There is a strange experience of doing the RCA thing and seeing what comes even two years after now, it's definitely not what I thought I would be doing. Particularly becoming associated with the gang of Collapsonomics and other adventures that followed in that year. I had a funny conversation on the street with one of my former tutors I bumped into over the summer, about who was doing the most work. I'm not sure I would say I was, but it does depend on perspectives.
I'm going to have to write something more in details that looks at where I am and where I'm going. While this hasn't turned into a blog about me getting a job and the path through doing so. What it has been is about the change in my attitudes to how I develop and deploy my skills, and who I want them to benefit, I'm still looking for jobs and other work, and so this blog will still chart those adventures. I have to write a new post on future attitudes to work as that is very relevant to the position I find myself Five years on.
It's been interesting looking back at the last five years, while I would like to do a fuller reflection of my life over the last five years, a much fuller reflection on how far I have progressed, it's something strange looking back at what I thought I would be doing and where my life has gone.
It's funny looking back at the first few posts, back in 2005 I was expecting to move into a 'job' in the traditional sense very quickly. It's certainly not turned out that way. I'm still working out what that means, I don't count it as a failure and it fits part of a future article / blog post on 'future attitudes to work' but I can't say that I have had a job in design which is what this blog was intended to document. While those of my Peers at BIAD have gone on to take places in the London Design scene and elsewhere (but mostly London, which seems to be the measure of success, how strange?) What was I intending from that point? Was I trying to get into the design scene? what kind of designer was I? I say this because at BIAD there was definitely some confusion, I was aiming to do online, but without experience of online if that makes sense, lots of conceptual work but how to make this practical...
Then came RCA, and RCA experience was good, I learnt a lot and it's caused me to adjust the way I think about things. There's different things coming from my RCA experience that are coming forward that I didn't necessarily pick up from the time, I'm still processing what comes from that, even two years out. There is a strange experience of doing the RCA thing and seeing what comes even two years after now, it's definitely not what I thought I would be doing. Particularly becoming associated with the gang of Collapsonomics and other adventures that followed in that year. I had a funny conversation on the street with one of my former tutors I bumped into over the summer, about who was doing the most work. I'm not sure I would say I was, but it does depend on perspectives.
I'm going to have to write something more in details that looks at where I am and where I'm going. While this hasn't turned into a blog about me getting a job and the path through doing so. What it has been is about the change in my attitudes to how I develop and deploy my skills, and who I want them to benefit, I'm still looking for jobs and other work, and so this blog will still chart those adventures. I have to write a new post on future attitudes to work as that is very relevant to the position I find myself Five years on.
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