26 October 2015

An Update and a New Direction.

As you can tell from another long hiatus, I am up to a whole lot of new and different things which I am looking forward to sharing with you. The first month as a design historian has been a challenge, but for once it's a relieving challenge. I am surrounded with incredible new colleagues, all inspiring and really really smart and it's exciting to be in a space together learning! I'm learning a whole lot of new words and ways to describe 'stuff' and I've just written my first essay, short but kind of a new way of thinking and talking about design.

SO. Now with our first kind of 'reading'/'projects' week, I've set myself the challenge to rekindle my relationship with you, blog. This has been the outlet that has got me through, been a place of safe criticality and just a way of sharing with you what life is like doing lots of design stuffs. But now, what with less making and more thinking, this blog is going to end up going on a slight tangent to before, as a space for research sure, but its more about the words now I guess. I have to challenge myself to be looking at the world slightly differently, so I'm hoping it will be here that I start to practice some reviewing and documenting, describe some books, some performances, some events, and maybe show my image-making a little if I get the chance. You'll be happy to know I've set up a drawing club with HoD, so history of design is not just about being historical now. It's just weird getting used to being a 'historian' to some effect, but I'm hoping to make that definition as broad as possible. It would feel strange if I didn't do lots and lots and lots of things.

Between the last post and this one, I've done lots of things which I hope I can share with some photography (when I get them developed this week whoops). I've been to Japan with my family, as you may know from Instagram. Lots of pics from that so hopefully I can get a hold of those soon... Anyway, stay tuned for some exhibition reviews because I'm hoping to go to a good handful of them before I have to get back to being an MA student again!

Also here's two prams full of miniature poodles.