Journal 2- The Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Bruce Mau is a Canadian environmental designer who has also done work in branding. Bruce Mau was creative director of Bruce Mau Design. He has had the title of many things including: designer, professor, and advisor. He founded Institute without Boundaries and established "The Massive Change Network" in Chicago. Giving a physical and emotional experience to the viewers is how Mau connects design with the environment. 

I picked #2 of Bruce Mau's Manifesto...
Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth. 

I picked #2 because being a student, particularly a graphic design student, growth is what makes you a good designer. If I were to stick to what was good from my freshman year in design school, I would still be doing freshman work. The best way to grow as a designer is to learn from the mistakes you have made from a project that was done poorly. Growing is also a form of changing, and as most of us know, designing is the process of making something new. 

Journal 1- Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a illustrator and letterer known for projects that have more of a silly nature. She grew up in Pennsylvania and attended art school. She declared her major as Graphic Design her sophomore year. At the beginning of her career, Jessica was a freelance designer in Philadelphia where she helped design books. She then worked for people such as Wes Anderson and companies such as Penguin Books. Jessica has set up a synergetic studio and workshop in San Francisco, CA.

 In her video, An Evening With Jessica Hische, she explains how she started designing hand lettering and talks about some of her projects. She also talks about the importance of creating new things every time you’re working on a new project. This is because ideas from previous work may not work very well with new projects. Hische says in her video that new lettering has to come with every new project.

Hische also refers to the project that she says changed her career. This project was the Daily Drop Cap. She created this project to keep her motivated and inspired. She began by designing one letter per day and eventually the site was posted on hundreds of design blogs. This project helped launch Jessica's design career.

Some of Jessica Hische's work that inspires me is shown below.