Weekly Ideas Wall by DL Support Manual

Business Foundations

lu317663 — 2025-05-28 02:02:08 UTC

Here's a link to my blog post. Below are the highlights. Pardon the dust, I'll be editing it over the next few days.

• Studios: Pentagram

• Individual Practitioners: Kenya Hara

• Business: Shakespeare & Co. (Paris)

• Brand: Japan Sumo Association

(Video link to the match when Onosato clinched the May Sumo Tournament.)

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-05-29 05:53:59 UTC

Hi everyone, this week's lecture video, Practitioner Case Studies, features a series of interviews with graphic designers discussing their studios. It's remarkable how different their individual approaches are. If you notice any aspects that interest or relate to you, or might be important for your own practice, please share or discuss them at the webinar - see you later.

Graphic design practitioners and studios we interviewed are:

Simon Manchipp, SomeOne
Sarah Boris
Julian House and Adrian Talbot, Intro
Sam Winston
Tom Finn and Kristoffer Soelling, Regular Practice

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-05-29 18:24:32 UTC

Hi everyone, please let me know if you had trouble accessing the webinar tonight, and/or did not receive an invite to Teams. Thanks

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-05-30 03:50:01 UTC

Hi all - please make sure that you have downloaded the updated Briefs PDF document from Canvas (at Assignments).

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-05-30 04:30:00 UTC

Accessing the recording of Week #1 Webinar

melusindesign — 2025-05-31 14:03:59 UTC

Hello, I've been added to the GDE730 group chat, but I'm still having trouble accessing the recording of the Week #1 webinar. Could you please share the replay link here?

Thanks!

WEEK #1 - Research Task

melusindesign — 2025-05-31 14:36:21 UTC

Here are some brand/people/studios that inspire me:

Studios → https://wwwesh.studio/ ; https://www.instagram.com/mmparisdotcom/ (one of a kind!) ; https://www.larampe.io/ (excellent copywriting) ;

Individual practitioners → https://www.instagram.com/brandbycamille/?hl=en (good advice about freelancing and very cool human-scale projects)

Founders → Krissy Cela (@krissycela) • Instagram · krissycela3,3M+ followers (love how she created a whole environment around her passion) ; https://www.instagram.com/oddmuselondon/?hl=en

Week 1 - Research task

2025-06-01 16:46:10 UTC

It's not an easy task for me because I'm interested in different designs and media. I also haven't really had the time to develop my own sense of what makes me a designer. That's why it's difficult for me to take a clear stance on this.

I recently attended a Riso printing workshop and really enjoyed the atmosphere at https://www.instagram.com/herrundfraurio/ -> the owners are very personable and Riso printing is a printing technique not widely used in Munich/Germany. The technique is supposed to be more environmentally friendly. I like to learn more about graphic design techniques off screen/ non digital

I don't know if this should be on this list, but I really like the style of this tattoo artist https://www.instagram.com/howstarsdie/ -> feels more like art to me, less like the typical tattoos
Letter type inspo: https://www.instagram.com/letterformarchive/
Photography: https://www.instagram.com/raniamatar/ -> beautiful photos with a serious background
Studio with a wide range of services - especially like the typography designs https://hellome.studio/

2025-06-02 00:37:43 UTC

Here the link for my blog post

2025-06-02 00:38:27 UTC

The link to my blog

JordanneMcVey — 2025-06-02 12:33:24 UTC

Research Task week 1

My biggest inspirations are:

Aaron Draplin

Just-A-Jar Design Press

CJ Cawley

I will share a link to my blog, this evening with a description of these.

Week 2 Research Task Question

lu317663 — 2025-06-03 00:56:29 UTC

Hi Frauke, my gut tells me "core operational aspects of a design studio" are the various roles that are required like designer, animator, accountant, writer, project lead, therapist, etc. But looking online my searches are returning DesignOps. Are these related? Thanks.

Week 2: Business Foundations

lu317663 — 2025-06-04 23:21:39 UTC

My big takeaway from this week's task is discovering just how complex my ecosystem is. Each professional I work with introduces a new facet to the ecosystem I share with them. Just like finding the beauty in noticing a specific tree for the first time, discovering this ecosystem that we share is part shame--that I never really noticed it before--and part joy--that I can see the tendrils stretching out. I've worked on too many small teams in the past, but I could have made them larger by simply meeting new people and introducing them. I'm more motivated to reach out to others just to chat. And as cheesy as it sounds, get some business cards and check my email more often.

Ideas - End of Week 2

lu317663 — 2025-06-06 01:41:53 UTC

With two weeks behind me I wanted to respond to the question Frauke asked in an email before the week 2 webinar. This is a barometer for how things have changed since I worked on our Week 1 research question. This isn't a finished post, no design inspirations yet.

Week 2 Research Task

JordanneMcVey — 2025-06-08 21:53:30 UTC

As I am leaning toward a Community Fundraising Event for my project, the Core Aspects involve Community partners.

One of the biggest of these communitty partners I believe would be our local regional development association. Regardless of what type of entrepenurship i would choose this would be one of the first I would need to contact. They help with all new business start-up, have helped with local freelancers, and are the foremost aid for the majority of community action events.

https://nrgrda.org/

2025-06-09 01:43:15 UTC

I am thinking to write about creating a web site "Graphic Design 101" - probably you wonder why - there are so many resources out there. But in all the classes that I have been in the past, we learn just briefly about the design tools and then we need to continue on our own. Most of the classes just focus on the Adobe software but there are others that are equally good - Figma for example. So, this website is going to be like introduction to all of them - is 101 -so, just the basic stuff. Also, once a week is going to be life lesson.

Maybe can be held from different instructor every week (lets say Paul Trani, Ramirez...).

And maybe every week each college will have 1 hour to introdused its program and showcase the work of the students;

Link to my blog

melusindesign — 2025-06-10 15:27:01 UTC

It's still quite messy, and maybe not the best written, but it's still nice to share to see how everyone appropriates the course!

Week 3: Research Task

lu317663 — 2025-06-12 00:21:23 UTC

Reviewing copyright and other legal challenges in my career has shown how I've gotten more responsible over the years and my most recent challenges I've handled well. As educated designers we can offer our clients best practices that can legally protect them. Years ago I discovered an American client had been misleading me about the rights they had, researching legal responsibility I found that as an employee I wasn't protected but could be held liable individually in addition to them. Since then I've gotten much firmer with my clients and it makes our relationships stronger.

2025-06-12 01:29:46 UTC

Hi - we are learning this week about legal rights and I wonder how about image that is done by or with a help of AI tool - who has the rights of it?

Is Vicky - I don't know why I shaw as anonymous

Copyright Infringement

lu317663 — 2025-06-12 17:54:59 UTC

In my mind it was a big campaign with lots of color... but in reality it's a bit underwhelming. Makes for an interesting story.

Business plan PDF

melusindesign — 2025-06-13 10:27:16 UTC

Hello,

I'm posting here because I think you showed a PDF during one of your webinars about what to include in a business plan, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere.

If it exists, I’d love to know how to get access to it.

Thanks in advance!

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-06-15 09:41:07 UTC

Hi everyone, please see here the 'What to include in your business plan' document.

Week 3 webinar link to recording

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-06-18 04:42:31 UTC

Hi everyone, here is the link to last week's webinar in case anyone missed it. Get in touch anytime if you have questions:

https://falmouthac.sharepoint.com/sites/FAL_FAL_730_2025/Shared%20Documents/1_Webinars/Recordings/Week%203%20Webinar-20250612_190222-Meeting%20Recording.mp4?web=1&referrer=Teams.TEAMS-ELECTRON&referrerScenario=MeetingChicletGetLink.view

Difficult Text

lu317663 — 2025-06-19 01:36:45 UTC

Hi Frauke, the link for "Business strategy: a guide to effective decision-making" by Jeremy Kourdi is difficult to read. Text gets cut off and re-formats to the screen which creates disorientating layouts. This leads to the pagination not matching the recommended reading. VLeBooks is the only instance in our program where I've run into such a challenge. Can it be shared through a different platform? ProQuest is far better. Thank you for any help you can offer.

Week 3 - research task (part 1)

2025-06-19 09:11:10 UTC

I've never had any problems with copyright in my (non-design-related) career.

I wasn't aware though, that when a designer creates his own original work they automatically have the ownership, unless they signed a contract with a client or employer. Certain things are not copyrighted though, like non-visual ideas.

A common example of copyright infringement is the creation of a logo that is very similar to an existing logo, as in the Apple v Prepear case, where Prepear's pear looked very similar to Apple's apple shape.

In some situations, clients may not be aware of the intricacies of intellectual property rights, so we as designers should know more about them. In general, I would say that it is common sense to respect the rights of the author and to follow ethical standards.

Bootlegging, on the other hand, a term I first heard in the week 3 lecture, is a term created to intentionally disrupt or reinvent (correct me if I'm wrong, Frauke). It can be used to challenge social inequalities or to showcase a particular underrepresented group (especially in fashion).

Assignment Briefs?

nk270995 — 2025-06-29 17:47:45 UTC

Hi Frauke,

I was trying to download the assignment briefs, but it is the same brief that is added for all assignments. Am I doing something wrong? :O

Late to the Party :D Week 1 research task

nk270995 — 2025-06-29 20:34:01 UTC

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-06-30 06:57:04 UTC

https://wwd.com/footwear-news/sneaker-news/edison-chen-clot-adidas-stan-smith-beaded-release-info-1237922172/

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-06-30 06:57:39 UTC

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-06-30 07:10:46 UTC

https://news.adidas.com/originals/adidas-originals-and-edison-chen-unveil-the-clot-stan-smith-beaded-by-edison-chen/s/cea5dd85-567a-45e4-be6c-6411f04892e7

Interestingly, this 'beads' intervention is a case study to show what kind of designer you want to be - if it is to bring your culture and crafts in the form of disruptive interventions into projects etc- could be both a 'concept for a product or service associated with your new business

proposition and an artefact that could be used in a wider marketing campaign to help promote your new business'.

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-06-30 07:11:24 UTC

A note on collaboration/co-creation (week 5)

2025-06-30 15:33:38 UTC

Ken Kirton from the Week 5 lecture emphasises that co-creation is about balancing effort and, as he says, ‘creating a fair exchange of value’.

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/ken-kirton-opinion-review-of-the-year-2018-graphic-design-121218

Collaboration or Client?

lu317663 — 2025-07-01 00:44:19 UTC

Hi Frauke, I've been struggling with the collaboration assignments because I keep seeing client work. When a client is open minded and engaging it feels very collaborative and I love those projects. However, when they're more distant it's not collaborative at all, more like being a waiter than a partner. So is collaboration like the quote Christina shared by Ken Kirton saying, "creating a fair exchange of value" as a way to empower both the designer, the client, and the audience? I worked closely with a friend on a collection of memorial essays about her sister a few years ago and we both contributed to the design and the content. It was an important collaboration for me, and we did it for free with the proceeds going to charity. My question is: What differentiates collaboration vs work by a group of people?

Design Collaboration - Giorgi Lupi + Stefanie Posavec

lu317663 — 2025-07-04 16:44:15 UTC

Those in my cohort will recognize Giorgi Lupi from my Ides Wall posts from past semesters. She strikes me as a very collaborative person and here is a wonderful example. She writes about the correspondence with Stefanie Posavec, "Instead of using data just to become more efficient, we argue we can use data to become more human and to connect with ourselves and others at a deeper level." They could only plumb those depths through a very personal collaboration.

Design Collaboration - Renga

lu317663 — 2025-07-04 16:54:58 UTC

I love the Japanese poetic form: the Renga. It is a series of linked poems written at a gathering. Each poet contributes a verse in turn that plays off the preceding verse and sets up the following verse. Adapting that to a design exercise could help collaborators to get to know other and build trust--a crucial ingredient for collaboration.

2025-07-06 01:02:32 UTC

Christo & Jeanne Claude

lu317663 — 2025-07-07 03:25:17 UTC

Vicky inspired me! I was lucky to visit the Gates in 2005 (I even have a swatch of the cloth.) When I was in high school I watched The Valley Curtain, which I watched again recently. They saw their art as collaboration with the community and the fabricators. Most of the documentary focused on the steel workers who rigged the curtain and the pride they felt. Walking through the Gates in the cold was wonderful. They may not have collaborated so much in their artistic vision, but they certainly collaborated with the workers and communities that made it possible. I remember being baffled by The Valley Curtain when I was younger, now I see it as the unbridled joy of collaboration that brings disparate people together.

Question for everyone

powellgillo — 2025-07-08 21:07:25 UTC

Do you find that a lot of (if not all) ideas you have aren't particularly unique? Feels like every idea I've had is one that has been thought and acted on by someone else already.

If/when you encounter this do you discount the idea, validate its existence in your own context or only push forward with it if you can find a way to change it into something different enough?

2025-07-08 21:50:30 UTC

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-07-11 06:26:26 UTC

Hi everyone, here are some links from yesterday's webinar.

(Mélusine GRULET I've added Hoon Quah's link as well):

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/the-view-from-seoul-designer-side-businesses-korea-creative-industry-080725?utm_source=dailyemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=intemail

https://nupip.co.kr/archive/article?no=89&board_no=2

https://www.typotheque.com/books/indigenous-north-american-type

https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/preserving-indigenous-scripts-kevin-king-typotheque/

https://lettering.ca/type-design-Mazina

https://www.instagram.com/q.phaikhoon?igsh=YXE5N3drNjUxZXh5

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-07-15 06:49:15 UTC

We talked about the 'bat bricks' a while back. Here is an interesting development on this:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/labour-blocks-proposal-for-swift-bricks-in-all-new-homes

Week 9 Webinar GUEST LECTURE link

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-07-20 06:03:13 UTC

Guest Lecturer
24th July @ 6PM
Teams Link: MA Graphic Design / Guest Lecture / Sara Boris | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%253ameeting_MzYyOGM5NTktNjcyMC00YTVhLThjMTYtMTEyOTQ0NGRkMGRl%2540thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%22550beeb3-6a3d-4646-a111-f89d0177792e%22,%22Oid%22:%228c15a94a-f04f-427f-aaa0-c59851c21d7c%22%7D

Sarah Boris

A recent article was released this week on her work:
https://www.creativeboom.com/news/a-never-ending-rainbow-sarah-boris/

Sarah Boris is an artist and designer who's practice encompasses book making, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, painting and design. She started out working as graphic designer for some of the biggest cultural institutions in the UK (ICA, Barbican, Phaidon) before setting up her own studio to focus on her art practice. Her work explores various topics and forms, from symbols to climate change and language. Her projects often emerge from lived experiences or are connected to specific contexts. Her published books include Rainbow (2022/3), Global Warming Anyone? (2019), Le Théâtre Graphique (2015/ 2016/2023) and After the Rain (2024) most of which are part of artists’ book collections. After the Rain is her latest book which is entirely screenprinted and echoes her latest body of modular artworks and the sense of play present in her explorations. Her public art commission, The Heart Bench series (2021), demonstrates how she transforms a universal symbol into a functional sculpture. One of her most iconic artworks is the Fragile UK Flag (2015), where she created the Union Jack using fragile tape and blue paper. Her work has been exhibited at the Design Museum in London and is part of collections at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the New York Centre for Book Arts, FRAC Normandie, MAK Vienna, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, artothèque Bel Ordinaire, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland.

Links:
sarahboris.com
https://www.instagram.com/sarahboris_ldn/

Week 10 Webinar

Frauke_Stegmann — 2025-07-31 14:38:40 UTC

CRIT/Webinar: Thursday, 31st July 2025, 6PM (BST)

Here is the link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3afc5d91e501d7443784b25efc12e2dcf2%40thread.tacv2/1753856906913?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22550beeb3-6a3d-4646-a111-f89d0177792e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220691d424-6dda-4eb6-b24b-fd76a4c3c392%22%7d

Business Plan

powellgillo — 2025-08-03 17:15:08 UTC

Are we providing the 3000 word business plan as a document alongside this pdf or should the contents of the business plan pdf (not including the research and development) be 3000 words +/- 10% even if we're structuring it in a more engaging way.

i.e. if we're including job roles and descriptions as a diagram we'll save on words because we won't need fully fleshed out paragraphs for each.

or if we're talking about financial road maps within a diagram, will each number be a word?

Just a bit confused with how the 3000 words will be judged. Are we happy with it being 3000 words but a very loose layout/approach.

2025-08-12 11:22:21 UTC

(Vicky Kafkaki) This file has the links to my blog for this course. In week 11 I have the files for my projects.