PPP PRESENTATION.

EXITING SELF DIRECTED PROJECT WITH MICHAEL WILLIAMS.

Creative director: Greta Madline
Production manager, typographer and co-director: Michael Williams

These are only few shots from part 2 that are going to be used for my creative CV.

'Shit I don't need' project. This is the unfinished project yet. But the initial idea was to collect un-needed stuff  create an alphabet from which later n to create typographic posters in the theme that 'Everything looks gold but not everything is', 'One man's garbage is another's treasure', 'Shit You don't need' and so on. I was quite exited about the project and working with Mike was so much fun, we hang out a lot but we have never done a project together. And he said he enjoyed it so did I. I will need to go on Monday and pick up all the stuff I left in the photography studios. Event the tutors there got very exited about the project. We got so much help from the Marcus and Paul - it's amazing and I feel so comfortable doing stuff like this. I think I will continue on exploring this type of graphics and see how I can adopt it for college purposes. 

I will be using thsi week to produce the final's we have a stop motion, few videos to go with the project, I still want to do some interviews and put a video together and explore it trough different media. We might have few exhibitions of this. One in Mrs Atha's and one in this Art festival. So very exited and can't wait for the other idea to hit, oh wait it already did. I already know my next installation!

We did Lithuanian letters as well so we can expand to our idea to another country. 

I-BRANDING.

I decided to listen to what other people have to say about me and let them lead my branding. This year I've got a person that draw this image and trough talking to him I influenced him to make changes. I have only met Jurgis Tamulis once and it was enough for him to remember me. This year I discovered as well that if You want creative freedom - You need to give creative freedom to others. I also learned the importance of working with other creatives, that's why in a way I wanted my business cards created by others. So this is how it looks:

For now this is the only thing I am going to do, these cards are going to be produced (each individually) after the deadline, because I want to emboss the image and dip die the paper in blue colour. I am really exited that I'm going toi be making rthem and hope they come out great, because than I can start giving them away.

I have been working on a concept for my send out packs and I have an idea in mind which I'm going to produce later on as well. Just to see reactions of companies. I am going to do them based around idea that a lot of people get their placements trough contacts and trough family and I think that way the industry is missing out on some really amazing talent. So I'm doing typographic mail out of  'Sorry, my aunt doesn't work in creative advertising but could I still get a chance'.

About the website I decided I have no need to create one right now because I started sharing my work on behance and I think that might be the right platform for now. I don't really know what kind of designer I am right now or where my creative practice might lead to so I don't want to create a website that I will never use.

THE AIM OF (MY) LIFE. Defining my WHY.

I have been watching a lot of talks and a lot of motivational videos done by motivational people.

http://www.break.com/index/a-deep-and-awesome-view-on-life-from-a-9-year-old-2425420 <---- this is a video of a boy talking about the meaning of life in a most simple and TRUE way. This made me think that maybe when we were children we already knew what the meaning of life is but than we grew up and forgot.

I also looked at why and how to be happy and successful and came to understanding that YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY are you living your life and WHAT you love doing and WHY you love doing it. And Tho I still don't know which path of creativity I want to choose (Looking into advertising right now). And tho I don't know that - I realized  that I know WHY am I here on this planet.

MY AIM OF LIFE:

'To create work and live the life that would INSPIRE and MOTIVATE people to ACT and LIVE the life THEY want to live without fear of failure. Bring more laughter  more positiveness and more kindness to the world around us (and maybe beyond). And give reason to believe in dreams, fairy-tales of real life and love/passion in everything we do trough the act of doing it (often).'

So that's out of the way now. I know what is my reason for creativity and life - now I just need to go and DO that. 

WHY-----> HOW-------> WHAT

The principle of success:

WHY ----> HOW -----> WHAT

'People don't buy WHAT you do they buy WHY you do it' - Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action (watch the talk)

GOING BACK TO LITHUANIA WAS AN EYE OPENER. PERSONAL PRACTICE. YES! I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT LITHUANIA. DON'T LIKE IT - DON'T READ.

I decided to share my experience of going back to Lithuania. I've learned a while ago not to compare any cultures but as I am a Lithuanian and don't want to forget my heritage maybe adapt some of the cultural things that  got from my homeland. I was talking with another Graphic Designer that is from Lithuania as well (Elena Jarmosh, Norwich university) and we discussed that CULTURE has a huge impact on the way you think and see the world.

Some times on the course I forget that I AM LITHUANIAN. It might be because I am always surrounded by British people, which is not bad at all, I am very glad to get to know this culture (way more than in London I did). Anyways, when I recently went back to Lithuania again after 6 months of not being there - It was an eye opener. I don't think I have ever had such an emotional and lightening journey.

(Translation. 'Shut up - Work more) This is the attitude I came back with. Don't like it - change it. Work hard for the things that matter and have your own mind  NEVER become a sheep and never let people crush who you really are. At the end it's going to be worth it and You'll have good stories to tell.

I also realized that recently I stopped having fun and was always trying to run away from Graphics rather than finding a way to enjoy it and I think that might have been because of the way we had to work on a professional level without THE BIG IDEA which makes everything pointless. It doesn't have to be a publication, if it is it doesn't have to be boring. Making things exiting! I found this quote on The Kenedys project blog 'WHY DO SOMETHING BORING WHEN YOU CAN DO SOMETHING AMAZING' The guys who said that do a lot of flyers, but their flyers look AMAZING! AND I realized that  it doesn't matter in what media or how but if the idea is good it can communicate. This image shows just a series of words on sheets of smth and it's outside the ART university in Lithuania, you can see it from the balcony (in which U CAN SMOKE) and it says 'COME BACK TO BED' I found it hilarious and it made me realize another thing, that it is about COMMUNICATION and the less it is limited the better it is, you shouldn't be afraid to put your ideas out there. If you play it safe and ONLY THINK AND RESEARCH and do a publication, well, You're not going to get FAR with that...Taking chances and making it happen! That's what get's the attention. NOT RULES.

http://www.ourmachine.com/page/designed-by-machine/ <--- visit this link to see OURMACHINE for NOT boring publications!

They also have this cool thing on the website where you can play music

 http://www.ourmachine.com/page/the-records/  <--- check it out.

On every corner I could fin interesting things and they are all about the idea! In this one beer the toilet sign was like this! And I do know Lithuania is full of bad design but there has been a change in these three years that I'm here. It seems people started putting ideas in front of everything and the nature of ASTONISHING with any design piece. It's clever enough it says WelCome in the WC sign but THEY HAVE AN ALIEN!!!!! Now I understand where my roots lie. My ideas are not crazy they are just Lithuanian! Aliens welcome, man I still find it funny every time I look at it

And You go inside the toilet thinking 'Well they can't astonish me more....' and here you go. THE SIGN OF FEMALE AND MALE. awesome! Brought me back to Fred's session in first year about semiotics and meaning and visual language. 

I went to see my mom in the Hotel that she lived in while visiting the capital Vilnius and even the hotel was amazing. We drank some coffee from these cups! 'BABY' How cheesy is that but it WORKS! It captures attention and flatters you BABY. 
PRETTY DAMN GOOD HOTEL. What a slogan. CHA! I was really surprised cuz the hotel was very luxurious still youth driven so i was thinking it's a 5 start hotel apparently it's only 3! Here you go - Lithuanian third world country - don't think so...

Than in our version of 'Starbucks' called 'COFFEE INN' one of the most popular cafe's in Lithuania I found this poster and only later I found out that this design studio that work I liked in the past as well just didn't know it - is going to be come one of the most inspiring things in my life and bringing back the hope that design in Lithuania is NOT DYING OR IS DEAD. NOT PERFECT - a design studio in Lithuania, check it out - absolutely astonishing WORK!

As I said before You can find good ideas FLOATING in the air. I can't tell you the exact translation of this writing but basically. The word high or higher can mean kind of outrageous in Lithuanian and this is basically it. So the text says it couldn't be more outrageous or HIGH... And it's on top of this old cinema building, on the VERY top! BAZINGA!

A wine place in Lithuania, thouth this is a very good idea how to create your environment piece by piece. Big jars that they put bottle tops in. And they have A LOT OF WINE, we probably drank most of it that night ;DDD

 When I visited the ART university 'VDA' we managed to sneak into the Visual Design sector and I wasn't very pleased with the distribution, but on their walls they had loads of students recent work, which were posters  (and again not pleased) BUT the ideas! The visual language and the detail of images they used, not as worried about type but. The first image. Look at it! See that yellow poster don't panic! HOW WELL DID THEY CHOSE THE CONCEPT, very simple - very communicative. After looking trough the posters I realized that probably this was a task to create a poster choosing any social problem. WELL DONE Lithuanian Graphics students! When You have a good idea than you can adapt it to any media that WORKS.

 TO FINISH OFF. 20 minutes before jumping into a car that would bring me back to my hometown I visited the gallery of the ART university and I WAS ASTONISHED. First of all THE SPACE! It's huge and only THE BEST STUDENTS ARE DISPLAYED from each course so it's around 15 students work in the gallery apparently the students need to apply for this space and  it's dedicated to STUDENT work. Just putting it out there. They all can CHOOSE the way their work is displayed and I was surprised that everything is done VERY unprofessionally. The graphics again had posters (sadly) but IDEAS! I was blown away. Not being afraid to say direct messages. Like this picture on the left. CHA! David would appreciate it. The fashion student displays were AMAZING. I am hoping one of my friends will get in to the university! Furniture as well, very modern - interesting. There was also architecture students - WOW! The detail, the analysis and the visuals themselves were just astonishing.  You could see all of the sketchbooks.

Just to record this - it took me an hour and 20 minutes to do this post. I was actually analyzing and thinking what I'm putting on, so just to break the thought - 'leave 20 minutes to do your blog posts each day' - 20 MINUTES! ARE YOU JOKING. YOU can get some crappy images in 20 minutes - if that's what this course requires with no analyzes. Not even gong to do that. I rather spend an hour and blog the important stuff that i actually find motivating and mind-opening than just putting out anything for the sake of blogging.

ONE MORE THING I LEARNED: I like contextual studies. (I went to few sessions in the Art university, they gladly let me stay and listen and even got me involved in the discussions we had)
AND: Knowledge is not about how much information you can consume into your brain it's about thinking and being bright, curious and open-minded AND not sitting in front of the computer for hours. You want to know your audience so be around your audience - meet your audience cuz the 'AUDIENCE' ARE PEOPLE!
AND: You can only spend so much time working if You enjoy it - than no time is wasted.
P.S: If you want good time management LET people manage their times as grown ups.

RESEARCH FOR PPP. CONTACTING.

I went on Wieden+Kennedys New York Office and found this. Thought it was amazing so decided to share it with you guys. A simple concept as 'the first pancake allways burns' (we have this saying in Lithuanian, not sure how it sounds in British). This guy has made a lot of pancakes. Enjoy your breakfast!

Description

In a world where making the font page of Reddit is equivalent to writing the great American novel and reaching 1 million Twitter followers makes you a celebrity, the idea of what it means to be culturally relevant has been shaken to its core.  What has changed? What does it take to become part of culture in the digital era? Can it be planned or is it, as it has always been, a serendipitous outcome of exceptional talent or creativity? This panel explores how the internet has changed the rules of what makes people, products and ideas part of culture.

Questions Answered

1. In a world where making the font page of Reddit is equivalent to writing the great American novel and reaching 1 million Twitter followers makes you a celebrity, the idea of what it means to be culturally relevant has been shaken to its core.  What has changed?
2. What does it take to become part of culture in the digital era?
3. Can one plan to make something culturally relevant or is it, as it has always been, a serendipitous outcome of exceptional talent or creativity?
4. Has the internet changed what it means to be a celebrity?
5. Lessons for brand building on the internet.

PPP. IMPROVE.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO IMPROVE:

1. Illustrator skills
2. LEARN embossing
3. More laser cut
4. Writing skills
5. Keeping up with blogging and not hatting it.
6. Documenting my thought process/design development
7. Care more about marks
8. Time management
9. Be more aware of what is happening in the design scene and the world
10. Staying focused
11. Learn about new and developing technology that might be used for interaction in design

While we were doing the 505 brief we had to write down things taht we need to improve on and this is my list. Thought would be useful to have it on PPP blog.

SOME INTERESTING THINGS YOU FIND IN SHOPS (RESEARCH)

Bought a file folder today for all my papers (I keep loosing them) and apparently it's not A TOY. Ah, damn it, I couldn't way to put it on my head and play around, now I'll need to return it.
(just joking) ;D 

HALFWAY TROUGH - GOT SO FULL OF CANDY THAT COULN'T MOVE!

Please, click on the picture to view it.

I would gladly do more of graphic design that involves CANDY! (pink candy)

Dear Snask,

I hope You'll read this. There's not so much I could add. BUT (of course

there is always something adding) THANK YOU for the inspiration you gave me

and for the PINK thoughts! 

Hope you have a really great Christmas and 

the SWEETEST NEW YEAR! 

with Love,

Greta Madline.

DESIGN STUDIOS IN SPAIN. A LIST FROM JOHN.

[note] decided to have a calm evening to get my head around the things that are going on. John sent me an e-mail with all these great design studios in Spain so I decided to put them on my wall so everyone else could check them out. It will also be an opportunity to analyse them and decide which one might be suitable for a placement maybe. Well, I still want to go to sweeden, but I have to get some sun so SPAIN! YES! I love sun!

http://barfutura.com/ <--- I really like this design studio, but it seems they only give 6 month placements asking for strong software skills, which means you'll probably be a tool there. So not too sure. 

http://homedecaramel.com <--- I absolutely love their work. If I'll start looking into motions I will consider this studio as one of where I would love to work. LOVE THE NAME AS WELL!!!


http://www.hungrycastle.com/
<--- THIS IS AMAZING!!!! Social experiments! OMG! Interacting with people, sounds absolutely amazing!!! I would love to do interactive design, but even more interesting to do social experiments!

http://heystudio.es <--- reached a level of purity that actually scares me. I really like their individualism and consistency in work. It's so clean, colorful and bright. Love it. I wish one day my work could be clean. Sadly it's not right now. And I don't think they would even considering me as their intern or anything. 

http://www.marnich.com  <---- 

http://www.hopper-ink.com  <--- I must say the website is amazing. I really like their work and their philosophy of design and work. 'Everyone should  send them money'.

http://www.vasava.es <--- I really like the philosophy behind this studio. I think they are pretty cool. 

PPP. STUDIO (CALL IT) RESEARCH.

http://www.atmodesign.de/ <---- This studio is situated in Drasden which apparently is the capital of the Free State of Saxony in Germany (Which I never knew and feel really ashamed of that). Anyways this studio did this amazing branding for Pigmenpol

of course knowing me by now THIS is what garbed my attention.

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/ <---- This is the new love of my life (design life) Andrew Kim.

http://www.akatre.com <---- A new studio in Paris that Eve recomended to me and I have to admit I love their photography.

OUGD502. LIFE'S A PITCH. THE! GIF

RESPONSIVE. SOME SAMPLES.

 

I have no idea who did this, but Tom send it to me. And I'm really glad he did, I really like this idea!I think it works really well with my idea for the responsive brief, probably you are still unaware but from last session with Fred I decided to change my brief and after REALLY long time of searching for the perfect brief I discovered (wasn't really that hard to find) D&AD task set by D&AD itself. "Make Your dream job a reality". I already identified 3 studios that I'm going to apply this brief. I used the other ones as development for PPP. That's why I think it's a win win brief. I'm really UP for doing this, there are so many ideas in my head already.

YES. I'm still working on a DELL not a Mac. Get used to it.

The only problem is that my development work of this brief I'll need to HAND IN IN PAPER format. Luckily enough, the review that I wrote for SNASK 'Maike enemies and gain fans' ended up on one of their event wall posted by the man itself Fredrik Öst.

And today I've had 318 view on my PPP blog. Was quite exiting to see a number like that, usually I never get more than 20 and now 318! amazing, thank You Snask. BUT the point I was trying to make was that SNAS (as everyone knows really well now) is probably (to keep the secret) one of those three studios that I chose and I can't have the chance of them seeing the concept I planned, because it won't be interesting than. So I'll submit that part of work in paper copy and than after 'the plan' is done I'll post it here.

Back to the inspirations/installations/concept

 

 

by frederik heyman

http://frederikheyman.com/ <----this person is pretty amazing. I really like his absolutely 'out of the world' installations. Such a surreal concept. If you like installations you should check it out.  (thanks to Lizzi that share her discoveries with me)

I'm also thinking to try the http://www.thekennedys.nl/
[ what a sick motivation is this, this is what they offer to the people that are chos en.]
If you are selected as one of the 6 participants, it’s time to pack your bags and move to Amsterdam. Wieden+Kennedy will cover the expenses for your travel, provide accommodation for 6 months, and a minimum-wage salary. Additionally, the participants will have a designated space in the office, will be provided with computers and software and will be granted access to Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam’s facilities (recording spaces, kitchen, gym, art studio, fruits, veggies, garden and loads of coffee).

I'm probably going to use this brief to develop a body of strong work.I still have 6 month of preparation.

http://jessicawalsh.com/ and this is another good source to look into Jessica Walsh is just amazing!

PPP. LIFE'S A PITCH. FIRST GROUP MEETING.

It's official. We are a group:

Mike W.

Tom

Imogen 

and me:}

So today I sent everyone an e-mail and hopefully on Thursday we are going to have the FIRST meeting and discuss our crazy ideas in a very sexy environment in DOCK STREET MARKET.

I also set 4 basic tasks so we would have stuff to discuss after all this is a business meting and no one goes to a business meting without doing their research first.

A successful company has to be well thought trough so it needs a little bit of order and loads of  passion 

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and yes yes, work! 

   

 

REVIEW. 'MAKE ENEMIES & GAIN FANS' BY SNASK.

The journey trough SNASK'iness.

A FRESH and REVOLUTIONARY take on design (and life)  and a good-read these are  the first things that come to mind after reading this amazing book 'Make Enemies and Gain Fans'. I would say that SNASK have crazy (good) attitude and a will of a thousand Greek men fighting against the Gods for their place on earth. I'm a graphic design student and so it is that we 'read' a lot of design books, but trough two years of 'studying' graphic design I have never discovered anything like this book. I'm glad that that one Autumn day in a small town called Leeds my tutor John Watters and course mate Mike Williams had that discussion about this book and got me into this SNASK'iness. While reading this book I started annoying (in a good way) everyone in the studio about challenging yourself, taking risks, doing what you enjoy and 'pink lies'. One day I even came in wearing PINK just to bring a little bit happiness/positiveness into the studio (so it happens that there were two other girls wearing pink sweaters that day, happy accidents). For all the student that are still looking for a place under the sun I would suggest reading this book. If the 'typical' story line is NOT your cup of tea you might find some inspiration, positiveness and encouragement in this journey of Snask. You also get a peak into the 'behind the scenes' which answers  the BIG question 'So HOW did THEY make it?'. When you put the book down after reading the last chapter you'll find yourself craving for more SNASK (yum). It's like a good romance story about Romeo and Juliet, just Snask and Design without the sad ending.

{ME} just wrote a review on the book 'Make Enemies and Gain Fans' by Snask, hopefully it's going to appear  here: http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789063692971/make-enemies-gain-fans/#customer-reviews

AND IT'S ON!

PERSONAL PRACTICE. WORKING ON AN INSTALLATION IN THE STUDIO.

Today I started the photo shoot of my 6 installations for print production and as I go along I learned quite a few things. These are the considerations for working in a studio on an installation next time:

• PLAN EVERYTHING. Even the tiniest detail. 90% of success depends on PLANING
• SKETCH your ideas out so You can show them to the other people working with You.
• Lights and Preparation takes way more time than expected. (Plan more days ahead)
• Have more people in the 'crew' to help out.
• Think about the lighting before hand
• Never do an installation on the 'busy' time of the year (before deadlines). Everyone would just be stressing out way too much.
• ALWAYS have a photographer working with you. You have no damn thing what what does. (Thanks for Holly Peel in 1st year photography for helping me out. I wouldn't have done s**t without her)
• TAKE A HARD DRIVE TO BACK STUFF UP! (Seems quite legit, but believe me because you are so cough on the 'making' and 'creating' you forget as important stuff as BRINGING IN WHERE TO BACK UP)
• If anyone agrees to do an installation - make sure you inform them that they are not going to have any physical or psychological rest until the installation is fully complete
• LEAVE more time for the photo shoot
• Never do more than 2 installations per day. Less stress - more fun. 

 

 

TASK2. FOR JOHN. PPP.

3 CHOSEN AREAS OF PRACTICE AS OF NOW.

(still haven't decided)

3 MAIN STRENGHTS AS OF NOW.

• Installations/High Touch Visuals/Sterographics
• Collaborations with other people
• Interactive and innovative design

3 IDENTIFIED WEAKNESSES AS OF NOW.

• Project management and ineffective use of time
• Most of the time - too sociable
• There is only a pocket of motivation  per project.get motivated easily and get really into whatever I'm doing but than get bored of a project  - don't like coming back. Never did.

3 MAIN GOALS FOR THIS YEAR.

• Try to get a placement in Snask, if not at least have fun and get to know them by sending out mail.
• Create a BIG (budget of ~200) installation! (already have an idea)
• Learn webdesign and buy a domain name so no one could nick it! 
• Get a mac! 

3 WISHES.

• I wish that people could understand the power of the mind and learn to use it to motivate themselves, to do what they want to do in life and just be happy.
• I wish motivation would always stay and never go away.
• I wish i could travel around the world. 

QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED WHILE DOING A BRIEF. GUIDLINE

1. Why I have chosen this brief?
2. What is it you want to get from it?
3. What do you want to make/do?
4. Why do You want to enter it?

5. What is the problem?
6. What is it asking you to do about it?
7. What is it trying to achieve?
8.  What are the 10 most important words on the brief?

9. What is the message? (5 statements)
10. Who is the audience? (5 people)
11. What is the context? (5 places)
12. What products are asociated with it? (5 products)

13.What do you HAVE to do?
14. What you NEED to do?
15. What can you do? (I would rephrase into what can't you do? and why?)
16. What hasn't been done before?

17.What do you already know?
18. What do you need to find out?
19. What is stopping you?

CRITERIA (HOW TO WIN)

1.Professional execution
2. Originality
3. Effective communication
4. Meet the brief
5. Meet submission guidlines
6. Mind blowing visuals
7. Question the brief (break)
8. Quality of presentation (professional execution?)
9. Informed decissions
10. Contextualisation
11. Understanding your audience
12. Meet the deadline

PPP 6 TASKS. (SESSION WITH JOHN) SYNERGETIC STUDIOS

DO 6 TASKS TILL NEXT TUESDAY/13th Nov

1. Identify 5 studios/companies which you consider potentially synergistic to your personally. Write a short explanatory paragraph and reasons for each. 

• SERIAL CUT. Tho the company is classed as image makers and they focus more on art direction but still they are a full-on working creative community which include design, photography, motion graphics and 3D design. I've been following them for quite a while  and I think one of the main reasons is that I really like the use of bright colours, of course the amazing installation work they do and  the happy feel you get after looking at their work. It's also very well crafted and highly professional (did u see the quality of the finals? mind-blowing). You can feel that they really work hard and love what they do. 
• SNASK. (Only now I reaised that probably I like agencies that use serif typefaces for their logos). We were introduced to Snask trough John (THANK YOU) and I remember the first time I saw them on Johns computer on 'Creative Mornings' - I thought wow, so design is not just about being serious, thank GOD! I really like their playful attitude towards design and LIFE in general. I just recently finished their book and actually felt sad that it finished. I find Snask philosophy very intriguing - YES. I'm all up for hard work and having dreams and challenging yourself! But why not do it in a more FUN way?? After all it's a creative job! Not only I really like their attitude and way of life but I LOVE their 3D installations!!! And again I find myself facinated by good choice of colours, fun and chalanging and of course professional display and TYPE! Loads of HYPES for Snask!!! SNASSKYY :} (and I like Pink lies as well)
• KOKOKAKA. Another great design studio introduced to me by John. (situated in Sweeden as well as Snask. Amazing!) Kokokaka is a really innovative and more digital design agency. They focuse  digital artwork (such as websites, videos and so on.) But they have this really innovative and as you can see (we just started learning web) ground breaking rules approach. Which I'm UP FOR! You learn rules so just you could break them! They feel like a really fun and hard working studio which is (now after the third studio, I can proudly say) one of the most important qualities in a creative studio! Hard work - no fun is just not for me. I need to be exited about things than I can do them well and no matter how much time it would take - as long as I'm HYPE - I CAN DO ANYTHING! So I think Kokokaka has just that kind of attitude: Creative, innovative and rule-breaking 
• Sagmeister&Walsh inc. I heard about them from David and he was looking into Sagmeisters work all last year and I started looking into it as well. I have a hate and love relationship with their work. But one thing I do know that as a studio they are really experimental and challenging which I think is an amazing thing! It feels that if you go to a studio and they give you creative freedom - the work that is produced just has that special touch to it! It has an emotional bind! 
• Julien Vallee Motion & Design. One of my MOST favorite installations were made by this studio!!! I think his work is really professional and colourful (YES! I LOVE COLOUR!) and innovative! The other thing I like that it's really HANDS ON! I love that craft side of the work and how you can still sell it and produce it as high professional graphics.

2. Identify the top choice and WHY you feel that they might have synergy with your practice  now or in the near future?

• It's SOOOO hard to choose ONE!!! Can I go for them all? (guess will need to choose one for now). I'll choose Snask for now! (Just finished reading their book and I do agree am absolutely obsessed about them right now, everyone started hating this already in the studio, or maybe just hate me talking about them so much). First of all! I AIM FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE! Probably going to give them quite a hard time by always aiming high! Hope to bring my energy! Everywhere I'll go I'll bring my energy and not many people can actually deal with it in day to day basis - I think they could cuz they seem very energetic. Could be the 'refresher' after a hangover (I never get them anyways and don't drink anymore). Design wise if I work for people I like with the project I LOVE for clients that I treat like family, so much good energy has the potential to absolutely ROCK the project! To me it's as important what kind of people I work with! As Snask so do I share the love of installations and motion!!! I'm a hard worker and like to put extra hours into whatever I'm doing! So hopefully at teh end of the year I'll have what it takes to do it SNASK way! 

3. Is Your choice based on:
Location
Direction of Practice
The brand philosophy
Client base?

• I think all of them together (except the location, I know I know Stockholm is amazing and beautiful, but SO COLD!!!! I don't like COLD. I like SUN). Of course the most important one has to be the brand philosophy, followed by direction of practice!
  

4. What if none of those is YOUR  main reason for choosing to follow this organization, what is it spacificaly?

•  Pink lies.
  That and I like living my life not just closed in an office doing graphics. I want to go places! See people, meet people and have fun on the way. As Snask said: 'We spend so much time working why not have fun while doing it?'.

5. When considering these practices:
Please consider:
WHO they are and Who are You?
WHY are you contacting them and why they should listen?
WHAT do you want them to do next and what do you actually want?
WHY should they get back to you?

•  They are Snask and I'm Greta. They are interesting, exiting and innovative. I'm hyperactive, passionate and like reaching for the impossible. They produce high quality, well-thought trough ideas and hands-on design. I still haven't found my niche (getting there), can make any boring project into something interesting (it's all state of mind) and LOVE installations!!!!!!
• Because they don't know (yet) what's coming for them! If not do a placement at least get in contact with them for future collaborations. And have a fun project whiles doing that.
• I want them to have fun and enjoy until the time is right than just take me on board for a internship.
• Because hopefully they will be intrigued. 

6. Now you have identified these studios you feel synergy with. Please list 8 methods you could utilize to contact them?

• A typographic sculpture - trough post
• A game/puzzle - trough post
• An animation - trough mail
• An installation - trough post
• Motion graphics - trough post
• A postcard every month
• A white pigeon with an attached message