Kate Moross

Kate Moross has always been one of my main inspirations, I love her use of colour and free hand type. I found out through following her on Instagram and twitter that she was realising a book, I grabbed myself a copy. The book is called 'Make your own luck' and after reading the book I think it is very well titled. 

These are some of my pieces of her work, I love her use of colour and the hand drawn type

How to survie art school some advice from her as she's been through it. 

She also mentions in her book that young professionals are too scared to talk to professionals sometimes but she says 'there is no wall'. I think that is a really inspiring quote, there is no wall between me and professionals, they are just human.

Within her book I have seen a lot more of her work and things that I have never seen, its made me realise that she is quite a diverse person as all her work isn't just bubble writing and bright colours.

I have found Kate Morross' book really inspiring and I will be contacting her in the near future and hopefully one day I will visit her studio. I instagramed a picture of her book and tagged her and she liked it, I was really happy with this even though its just a like.

Why am I here? What do I want to learn?

5 reasons why I chose to study on this programme
- new city new people
- creative environment
- good repretation art college
- small classes
- more time with tutors 

5 things that I want to learn during your time on the programme
- new programmes such as illustrator and inDesign
- how to contact professionals within the industry
- finding what area of graphic design I would like to go into 
- how to screen print 
- how to do letter press 

5 skills that you think are your strengths
- organised
- hardworking
- committed
- team work
- reliable  

5 things that you want to improve 
- using programmes 
- confidence in myself and work 
- presenting my ideas 
- essay writing 
- different practices such as screen printing

5 ways you will evaluate your progress
- blogging 
- evaluations at the end of each project
- crits, using the feedback 
- asking other peers 
- tutor feedback 

5 questions you want to find the answer to
- will i actually get a job in graphic design?
- is there life in space?
- will i move aboard? (or at least London)
- how much of each country will be under the sea in 1000 years time?
- how do i contact a professional graphic designer and actually get a reply? 

5 things that inspire me
- travel
- films
- successful money makers 
- successful graphic designers
- internet 

10 examples of design that illustrate my fields of creative interest  

- Kate Moross, a big inspiration of mine, her book is partially inspiring as she has been to art school and offers her advice 

- Hand drawn type, I have always been a massive fan of hand drawn type and people handwriting, I think its better as its more personal 

- Hatiie 'Doodles' Stewart, I love Hattie's work and her style, its quite illustrative. She used a lot of fashion and celebrities within here work. 

- Card making/ paper craft, artists such as Rob Ryan and  Yulia Broadskaya inspire me with their work as it is all so delicate with paper and real time and patients has gone into it 

-Logo design, I am very interested in logo design and brand identity, I have made a couple of logos for my friends in the past, the logos are below 

-Photography, young photographers such as Elenor Hardwhick are really inspiring just seeing how much they have achieved already, Elenor photographs for big brands such as Jack Wills, Vouge and Lomography at just 16.  

- Pixar. I love all things pixar. haha 

- Travel. New places. Prague '13 photos below  

- 60's psychedelic posters

(some) fine art. salvador dali. I love his pretty paintings