There will be unicorns.Thomas Burden

by looking at linkedin I discovered this studio apparantly it's a one mans band. The name was the first hook.

http://www.therewillbeunicorns.com/

When I first checked it out I was astonished by the color and playfulness and the 3d skills that this person had so I decided to write a fan e-mail to Thomas Burden who was the one that ran the studio. 

"Since graduating, to (my own) rapturous applause, from Camberwell College of Art's Graphic Design BA in 2007, I have mixed a freelance career with longer, full-time stints as a senior designer at leading design studios McfaulStudio and I Love Dust. I've been lucky enough to have my range of illustrative styles grace everything from book covers, ad campaigns and magazine editorials to packaging, animations, websites, stage visuals, building projections and the entire exterior of a Beirut shopping mall (true story) for clients Nike, Pathe, Greenpeace, Wall St Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, UPS, Empire, Macy's, Faber & Faber, Penguin and pretty much every ad agency under the sun. I'm represented for my illustration work by the good folk of Handsome Frank"

I was really pleased when we managed to have a small discussion about graduating and graphic design. Most importantly I have learned one thing tho some of the methods of being professional do help but you don't need to present yourself in a "shablon". There is no wrong or right way of doing things or writing to people. The best advice that I got from T.Burden was:

" ' Graphic Design' was used by my tutors as a very vague term that covered anything creative and conceptual, when in reality most 'graphic designers' do exactly that - branding, web and print design. So it depends what you want to do as a career, if you're not a typography and layout geek, then that stuff probably isn't for you anyway. There's loads of other options career wise. Strong ideas, presented simply will always stand out best though I think. Don't over complicate stuff, that's probably my best advise for getting noticed. Whatever you want to do, you'll need to present your work in a professional and concise way."

I am going to take this advice further and from now on build up my own way to approach people, studios or clients. Work hard, be passionate, present yourself well and see what comes from it. 

First Presentation after Summer.

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)