tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81441626211733664642024-02-19T08:32:40.749+00:00The Hardback Henidplace – memory – form – connectionOrlagh O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990495227513077436noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-14238306585938262582017-06-13T19:39:00.000+01:002017-06-13T19:44:00.678+01:00How to avoid a turbulent relationship with your graphic or web designer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Many business owners have
confessed to me how difficult it can be to work with commercial creatives. ‘Stroppy’
and ‘moody’ are words that come to mind. Some designers drop projects abruptly
while others disappear into silence. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">There is a lot of rage
in that professional community, with sites such as <a href="https://clientsfromhell.net/">Clients from Hell</a> used as a
venting platform. The levels of arrogance and lack of empathy shock me as
clients by definition aren’t designers, so can’t know about the process. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To that end, I have 4 tips for anyone who would like to cultivate such a tumultuous relationship. Life will never be dull for you if you follow these tips. Alternatively, follow my antidotes and checklist at the end to land on a zen and calm runway. ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>1 – Fatal last words for anyone in the modern office world are " it will only take 5 mins" or, "just a few changes..."</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Antidote: Never assume the time it takes someone to do their work</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Context switching, file opening, information gathering, file management and file exporting to PDF and web sizes all take the same amount of time regardless of how many edits there are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>2 – Send a multitude of files and amendments at different times and locations. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Antidote: Gather your feedback promptly from all stakeholders at one time. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Strike while the iron is hot. Don't let it drag on as situations change, people go on holidays, get sick, work on other matters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>3 – Make a series of revisions over a long amount of time</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Antidote: Be aware that each revision stage costs: whether in money or in relationship goodwill</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Be clear on how many revisions are included in the contract or agreement. If unstated, assume more than 2 needs to be flagged. Give a heads up. If in doubt, use the phone or meet personally. Acknowledge the situation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>4 – Ambiguous instructions </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Antidote: List all changes methodically</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Check and agree with designer which notation method works best for them ( over phone, PDF, printed proof, in person ). Don't assume they know what you are talking about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Orlagh's flight checklist for landing a design project to destination calm and published</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Nominate one person on the team to co-ordinate changes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Setup a shared folder to co-ordinate communication, dropbox for example. Send file links in an email to ensure receipt.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Establish the terms of the project: the amount of revisions included, cost per extra changes, and expected delivery times. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Agree a system to gather edits and changes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">List file formats needed (e.g various social media, for email, for print )</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">When in doubt, do not email: tone of voice and humanness is lost and people mis-interpret easily. Pick up the phone or schedule a skype. </span></li>
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Orlagh O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990495227513077436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-67691695760343510442016-08-19T12:04:00.001+01:002016-08-19T12:05:38.767+01:00Lina Selander & Emma Hartman – Limited edition exhibition bookLimited edition book for exhibition of Swedish artists Lina Selander and Emma Hartman, curator Dobz O'Brien. Conceived and produced in response to Rory Prout's essay on the occasion of Speculative Fictions Exhibition at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland. Designed in Skibbereen, edition of 80 hand-crafted in Cork City by a team of many.<br />
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Orlaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826508517504232632noreply@blogger.com0Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland51.8503357 -8.294285800000011551.830718700000006 -8.33462630000001 51.8699527 -8.2539453000000123tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-1568106867036527572016-07-01T16:51:00.001+01:002016-07-01T16:51:02.619+01:00Hand crafted Wine Menu for Glebe Gardens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Anyhows, it was a pleasure to hand-make their wine menus for the night. I wanted arriving customers to get a hint of the care and thought that goes into everything at the Glebe. We kept it simple, with the swallow symbol taking a humble but proud place on the cover. Inside pages are A4 folded vertically ( no cutting!) on cream papers encased by black card and wrapped up in a folded A3 cover page (again, no cutting). Red cotton thread secures the cover to the booklet and conceals the staples. Its a warm hello to a wonderful hang out. Roll on the summer evenings. </div>
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<br />Orlaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826508517504232632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-6211534831689059872015-04-15T22:44:00.001+01:002015-04-16T09:11:09.398+01:00Service Design Cork Meetup - Inaugural Session<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxz5h_c2JcxkwcQpmm4rc_gLb56OcpSMbj6qJ-b6ouv4pSObq-gbPVgIHkQ1ccplCPk8abZ2WMJW278OrthuxSkcaaESb7MiolQfkGnaIyMVU3438NOftLo-mIq_IQDNdQw-fCJgM70HU/s1600/SDC+meetup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxz5h_c2JcxkwcQpmm4rc_gLb56OcpSMbj6qJ-b6ouv4pSObq-gbPVgIHkQ1ccplCPk8abZ2WMJW278OrthuxSkcaaESb7MiolQfkGnaIyMVU3438NOftLo-mIq_IQDNdQw-fCJgM70HU/s1600/SDC+meetup.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Wednesday April 15th </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">at CIT James Barry gallery. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Facilitated by Heather Madden and Catherine Murphy. </span><a href="http://www.cit.ie/servicedesigncork" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">www.cit.ie/servicedesigncork</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">#servicedesigncork</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The ongoing issue is understanding what this is all about! User involvement is the central element to improving existing services and creating new ones at various levels of complexity. These can range from relatively simple ones like entertainment and professional services right up to the mammoths of education, public service and healthcare. Example methods are service blueprints and personas.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Heather then told the story of how as a business analyst looking for ways to improve the admissions process, coming across a project at the University of Derby project it was her "light bulb moment". <a href="http://www.derby.ac.uk/newsevents/news/archive/news-archive/university-takes-service-design-approach-to-student-experience.php" target="_blank">Here was a solution to the challenge.</a></span><br />
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Weather is looking good for a beautiful evening of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/servicedesigncork?src=hash">#servicedesigncork</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/servicedesign?src=hash">#servicedesign</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/CIT_ie">@CIT_ie</a> All Welcome <a href="http://t.co/SxFXrZ0rj3">pic.twitter.com/SxFXrZ0rj3</a><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">User perspectives in public sector education</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">For a new student, the process of navigating entry to a large institution such as CIT can be bewildering. For staff, the amount of procedures and repetitive admin is overwhelming. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has applied various methods over the last two years to improve its own services to students.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Methods listed were observation on admissions days, taking photos, conducting interviews, focus groups and surveys. An open session in the main corridor gathered feedback from passing students with post-its. That was a charged experience! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Outputs</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> included a new campus map, renaming of its IT service desk with new signage, a guide for part time students and extended opening hours of college services for 1month at beginning of academic year.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Impact on students and staff at CIT</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Since then, the team has kicked off an internal knowledge sharing culture, waste reduction, self-service for students and a reduction in queuing. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Traffic to the myCIT student portal increased by 24% with an overall reduction in emails to "all" students. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">It took a while to sell the process to staff, but as the impact is seen and understood (60% reduction in footfall to the part-time office </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and a better clarity of service</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">), the culture has been changing. The aim is to get staff to continue ideating, questioning and seeing through the eyes of the students. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We then broke out to groups and did a persona exercise. This was fun and really cemented the understanding of service design. I find myself that it's easier to "get" when practised.</span><br />
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Lucy is our first persona for our fictional hairdressers <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/servicedesigncork?src=hash">#servicedesigncork</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/lookinggood?src=hash">#lookinggood</a> <a href="http://t.co/2YOWcKRocq">pic.twitter.com/2YOWcKRocq</a><br />
— Catherine Murphy (@lecturerCM) <a href="https://twitter.com/lecturerCM/status/588404006684401664">April 15, 2015</a></blockquote>
<b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Where to from here?</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The ambition is to create a service design community in Cork and to continue learning the methods. My personal one is to apply service design methods to improving my own practice and ultimately empower others. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>The next Service Design Cork Meetup will be in late May. This is just before Ireland's first service design conference in Dublin castle June 9th and 10th. <a href="http://www.irishdesign2015.ie/programme/single/border-midland-and-western-regional-assembly-public-service-design-conferen" target="_blank">Come along.</a></b></span><br />
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Orlaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826508517504232632noreply@blogger.com0Cork Institute of Technology, Rossa Avenue, Co. Cork, Ireland51.885403 -8.534554100000036751.8462025 -8.6152351000000369 51.924603499999996 -8.4538731000000364tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-42306918710929929582015-03-29T19:39:00.002+01:002015-03-29T19:39:55.997+01:002015 Ireland's Marriage Referendum Campaign Posters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The referendum on same-sex marriage is being held on May 22nd, 2015. Voters will be asked whether to add to the Constitution that "marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To contribute to the YES campaign I made these posters. The concept is “love bombing Ireland”. As a 21st century nation we have re-identified our identity away from IRA republicanism on the whole. Now we can take one step further to embracing egalitarian love and regard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">The aesthetic inspiration came from Ireland’s 1916 proclamation of independence, "diddly-eye" patriotism and the 1968 Hippy Summer of Love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Thanks to all the amazing people on Facebook who gave valuable feedback on the design and words. You are definitely part of the creation process. </span><br />
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Orlaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826508517504232632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-72965783156152714752014-11-22T20:54:00.000+00:002014-11-22T20:54:08.160+00:00A Book of Poetry about Love, God, Madness and Sexuality – Mairead MeadeI'm happy to have helped poet Mairead Meade to publish her collected work on Blurb. Here's her introduciton to the book.<br />
"I started writing poetry to handle my feelings of love as an adolescent teenager. At 17, an event happened in my life that would forever shape me. I began to question my sexuality. Soon after, I fell for a boy and was convinced he was my soulmate. I wrote much poetry through this period of unrequited love. At 18, I fell in love again, this time with a girl, and I became convinced not only was I gay but that she was my true love. This was the beginning of my journey into Paranoia and Schizophrenia as this love grew. In 1995, I found God through various metaphysical experiences. I travelled to Sunderland in the U.K. in 1996 to study B.A. Communications Studies at the University of Sunderland. By early 1997, I had a nervous breakdown and was in hospital in St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London. "Blossoms" is a collection of poems from that period. My poetry is about Love, God, Madness and Sexuality. To me, every poem is a blossom of feeling and thought through words. I'd like to share my poetry with the world as I believe there is a lot in my writing that can help heal people. By reading my words, I am sure many others can relate to me. " Mairéad Meade<br />
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In the winter of 2013, a group of Sherkin Islanders, along with artist <a href="http://www.artsandhealth.ie/artists/tess-leak/" target="_blank">Tess Leak </a>(centre front), undertook an adventure together: to create a collection of haiku poems inspired by life on the Island in all its forms and complexities. Traditional Japanese <i>Haiku</i> are three line poems with seventeen syllables and are, according to a member of the group, “like little islands” themselves. </div>
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A limited edition of 50 books containing a small part of the collection and was made at a day-long workshop by the hands of the Haiku-Island Poets in their community centre, November 2014. I helped with the setup and layout aspects but was highly impressed at their steady hands on the production line, cover <i>Haiga</i> and beautiful marbled end papers the poets brought to the edition.<br />
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The project was kindly supported by the Sherkin Island Development Society and the Cork Education and Training Board. Many thanks to Aisling Moran (Development Officer for Sherkin) and to all the Haiku Island Poets.<br />
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<b>Saturday afternoon <a href="http://makeshiftensemble.com/" target="_blank">Makeshift Ensemble</a> and Theatre Development Centre <a href="http://www.theatredevelopmentcentre.com/" target="_blank">(TDC)</a> held "Quarter@TDC 1214" a day of creative events at the the Triskel Cork. It kicked off with a panel discussion on creative entrepreneurship. </b></div>
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Lovely tea and cakes were laid on and a hanging installation by<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Pauline Gibbons</span></span> definitely warmed the tone of the space. <span class="s3">Eszter Nemethi, </span>hostess of Makeshift Ensemble began by introducing the panel:</div>
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Colm O'Herlihy – Starter of the Mountain Dew festival Macroom (Coming to Cork this year)</div>
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Pat Kiernan – Artistic Director and founder of theatre company <a href="http://www.corcadorca.com/" target="_blank">Corca Dorca</a></div>
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<span class="s4">Emer Ní Chíobháin </span>– <a href="http://www.sample-studios.com/" target="_blank">Sample Studios</a>, Cork</div>
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Dave Calnan <i>– </i>founder of the all-ages venue, <a href="http://www.thekino.ie/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">The <span class="s5">Kino</span></a></div>
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Rhona Flynn – Founder <a href="http://www.corkcommunityprintshop.com/" target="_blank">Cork Community Printshop</a></div>
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I was happy to feel a sense of a excitement about stuff happening in Cork. Spaces around city have become available to use. "Cork is amazing right now." (Colm). </div>
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<b>Question "What was the initial motivation for what you have done?" </b><br />
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<b>Much of the debate centred around making a living, the choices and issues around that. </b><b>The current options for practising artists are:</b><br />
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<u><span class="s7">#1. Go on the the dole</span> </u>: </div>
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PRO: no compromise to your work. <br />
CON: you can't be seen to be in business or do commercial work without getting cut-off. Your long hours are not valued. </div>
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<span class="s7"><u>#2. Get Funding </u></span>: <br />
PRO: an income. <br />
CON: you are vulnerable to changes in funding structures reactions of funding bodies and politicians to the work, you may have to change the work to maintain funding eligibility.</div>
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<u><span class="s7">#3. Commercialise your work :</span> </u>PRO sell the work to get an income. <br />
CON: adaptation or compromise of work.</div>
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<span class="s7"><u>#4. Teach / work a regular job</u> : </span>PRO: an income, <br />
CON: some qualification requirements. Job scarcity. Current embargo in public sector. </div>
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Funding is a generally accepted option but as Pat Kiernan said there is always only a certain amount and a far greater demand. </div>
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Rhona asserted her support for funding but asked about long term sustainability – if someone is planning a family, house, school runs (a life)… how can you plan or depend on funding for that? </div>
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Working for free – 14 to 16 hrs a day, there is no value on your time. You have to get paid. Self subsidisation is a false economy... People can't maintain that. There is a belief that the dole is an alternative arts council. A wage for artists? – Get to work!!!</div>
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How can you maintain an independent practice without compromising the work and making a living?</div>
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<b><u>Option #5 – </u></b><b><u>Be a creative entrepreneur </u>:</b></div>
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PRO: long-term financial sustainability and producing work on your own terms. <br />
CON: no guide book to hand, new terrain, requires diversifying your skills requires taking responsibility and risks. Hard work. </div>
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<b>Question: "So what is creative entrepreneurship?"</b></div>
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Dave Calnan's succinct response was: "Making stuff happen"</div>
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The panel agreed that we all need to move away from preconceptions of what an entrepreneur is (business suits briefcases, wheeling and dealing)…. It's more about sharing resources and setting up businesses using our artistic creative skills and ideas. Colm mentioned that this requires "diversification" of work and skills. </div>
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Collaboration is the new way to work rather than competition of old. By building a network of mutual support we can create opportunities for each other. There is benefit of being in a group. The word "ecology" was mentioned which seemed to sum that up nicely.</div>
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The result is a cultivation of independence of your own work and empowering others to do the same. Rhona called for a responsibility for our ourselves, our futures and the sustainability of our practices.</div>
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<b>Some advice:</b></div>
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<span class="s7"><u>Get off the dole:</u></span></div>
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Apply for the Back to work scheme and do a FÁS start your own business course. Check out the Workspace scheme from the arts council. </div>
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Petition politicians for legislative change. Check out the National Campaign for the Arts - the dole and artists practice.</div>
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Rhona urged the room: paraphrasing her: "You have to be so so clear about what you want - to get things done especially through the hard times. Have a clear focus for what you want to get out of it. One of the things that stops people from taking action is that their aims are too general and not specific enough."</div>
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Create things to give back - provide things to make the things. Different kinds of audiences can have different finding streams. Question and brainstorm the potential and possibilities of your project.</div>
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I asked the crowd to define the value and worth of their work. Communicate to those outside of your knowledge circle. Widen the demand for the work by selling and persuading people on the value for them. </div>
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Aoife from <a href="http://newccal.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Artlink </a>had the final word: Go beyond your own concerns and ask what you can do for others by listening to what is needed. </div>
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<b>Question "What stops people from doing this?" </b><br />
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So afterwards a few of us camped at the roundy table in Gulp'd, talked art inspiration and invented ideas for schemes and dreams.<br />
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(Quarter is a tri-monthly mini arts festival by Makeshift Ensemble. The next event is on 03/05/14 <a href="https://twitter.com/TDCcork">@TDCcork</a> <a href="http://t.co/hntBq10cjc">facebook.com/quartercork</a>)</div>
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I've often wondered what people will see of our time when they look back through the lens of history. Like how we view the madness of religious orthodoxy pre enlightenment, or the conservatism of the 1950s etc etc. I haven't really been able to get to an essence of the zeitgeist of this time, until now. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/F-S-Michaels/e/B004YWSCD2" target="_blank">This book</a> has blown me away. It exposes the values that dominate our assumptions and world-view in vividly direct and informed language.<br />
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Well I heard Lonely and The Moose at one of their 'Beatroot' sessions and just thought they rocked. We started chatting over–yes–roasted beatroot another day. Tessa and Liz had an idea for their dream CD which would be a precious box holding a bunch of their transatlantic letters to each other. I really liked that and thought of a plan to make a mini-box package as a limited edition run. It would be cheap and cheerful, full of photos, lyrics, memories and teasers for the long run CD. We would all make it together in a 'production frenzy' on the grounds of the stunning Glebe Gardens where Tessa cooks. I think a bonus is that it's flat-packable too: so the girls took a bunch over to the States and assembled them on the road. IKEA-packaging.<br />
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How long did this snail (or slug, let's not presume anything here) take to travel across the step, make the ingenious loop and somehow manage to leave the building? Answers in a tweet please! @orlaghob<br />
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I often wonder what to do with random bits of research and sketchbook bits when finished a set of prints. These are a couple of pamphlets I made playing with different scales and folds, and a Dosados book using a sailing map for the cover. (Part of a workshop with the book artist Andrew Kelly at <a href="http://www.corkprintmakers.ie/" target="_blank">Cork Printmakers</a>)</div>
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The team at Swell Surf School asked me to redesign their site this year. Collaborating with them was a demonstration of how actually great surf people are; so laid back and lovely. Inch beach in East Cork is the perfect place for learners as it has no mad crazy danger zones. It's beautiful as well. Petra Stone helped with thoroughly customising the Wordpress theme. I had fun creating a surfy vibe.<br />
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The rain doesn't end this week! "Now how can I get some different sounds from this unexpected drop intruding into my room?" It's a rainy June day and cabin fever demands a little play."Totally arty like!"
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ANd this is just the rain falling on the roof; lovely!
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Running along the docks this morning I was caught up in the City Marathon to my own bemusement, and glanced across at the empty stretch of water where Julia used to sit. She had been a friendly presence in the port of Cork for the last couple of years. High and unmissable, you would catch glimpses of her from various parts of town. Initially she was busy between here and France and back again. But economics intervened and she was left redundant to sit indefinitely in the port until the sad day she turned round and left altogether: April 28th, 2012. Apparently she's servicing the Dutch oil rigs off the North Sea now.
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Below is a riston print I did in the printmakers' on Wandesford Quay in 2010, and the next is sunset over the port and train station taken from my house only days before the departure. You can see the empty Elysium building just to her left, monument to the heydaze of the Celtic tiger, and the old R&H Hall building a little left of that again.
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Some drawings I did of letters found from the 1950s and 1970s.</div>Orlagh O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990495227513077436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-54896063490532966532012-03-23T13:13:00.005+00:002012-03-24T01:02:58.748+00:00Swimming sessions - illustration as a personal certificate of achievement for incremental but satisfying improvement<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">My new year's resolution for 2012 was to set a small, attainable, achievable and measurable goal for myself each month. Actually, each lunar month, as thats somehow more cyclic, and I can watch the month passing in a satisfyingly graphic passage of time. Anyhow, the last month (#3) was to swim 2km. Now, I know all you swimming people think: yeah, 'thats a fair enough distance to do in one go', but I, not very comfortable in water, decided to swim it over the course of the entire month. Very humble, (but measurable!) So I sputtered and splattered my way, and improved modestly, doing 2.6 in the end.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7qy6k1BWpz1Bn_dysDm9Hecuiq45SyZmC_jsAqDRusqoA2pkdx1mgQVUwQ3zJXXbLZgg2NoXFWyZNI_G-_PATaQh30KI4Ll2eAElN5q-dYoxURc_LWzCbFwPUZh72jxNlF_GULT8OHE/s1600/swim-gear-lo-res-ink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7qy6k1BWpz1Bn_dysDm9Hecuiq45SyZmC_jsAqDRusqoA2pkdx1mgQVUwQ3zJXXbLZgg2NoXFWyZNI_G-_PATaQh30KI4Ll2eAElN5q-dYoxURc_LWzCbFwPUZh72jxNlF_GULT8OHE/s400/swim-gear-lo-res-ink.jpg" width="400" /></a>So here's my personal achievement certificate, a drawing done last night.... a layer of just line and some water-based inks. Tried drawing on the iPad this evening in the pub but can't seem to get the sense of it yet... have a great weekend now anyone reading this....</div>Orlagh O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990495227513077436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-31873446777907767862012-03-13T22:44:00.001+00:002012-11-29T19:28:16.547+00:00Offset 2012 - Interview with Stefan Sagmeister – and whether or not he is design's Oprah WinfreyI'm just back from an inspiring weekend at design conference Offset, which was held at Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre. The talks are still percolating in the subconscious. Themes that were interesting for me personally seemed to be summed up in this interview. The <a href="http://thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/" target="_blank">ever-learning</a> Stefan Sagmeister meets my first creative director Ciarán O'Gaora (<a href="http://www.zero-g.ie/" target="_blank">zero-g</a>). It touched on the pursuit of happiness, being a graphic designer, maintaining creative longevity, productivity and making time for personal work. Yes, thats all in there somehow. So below is what he looked like just *before* speaking to "that girl" mentioned, and just to prove that yes, I was there, you can see a terribly boring shot of everyone waiting for the interview to start... his head is behind the guy with the glasses, bun and beard, who is Ciarán.<br />
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Note: 'Shamatha' means 'calm-abiding'... which Sogyal Rinpoche mentioned at one point as being `a balance between spaciousness and watchful awareness'.<br />
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And then the whole tumblr rabbit-hole for that matter. These images are from there but originally: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chrissy Angliker (via <a href="http://www.booooooom.com/2010/09/07/artist-painter-chrissy-angliker-3/">booooooom</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.curieuxdetrucs.com/">Pierre Botardo</a> (via<a href="http://2headedsnake.tumblr.com/post/9330960858"> 2headedsnake</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.happypunch-freemix.blogspot.com/">James Dawe</a> (via <a href="http://2headedsnake.tumblr.com/post/10140375584">2headedsnake</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unknown (via <a href="http://whitemoonstone.tumblr.com/">whitemoonstone</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/msneauxneauxs-alter/">Ms. Neaux Neaux</a> (via <a href="http://feru-leru.tumblr.com/post/10127259961/eye-sight-by-ms-neaux-neaux-on-flickr">feru-leru</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Follow it here @ArtLitFeed</div>Orlagh O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01990495227513077436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144162621173366464.post-58414016862487166302011-12-12T21:05:00.004+00:002011-12-13T18:22:01.786+00:00Wild Droppings<div style="font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I'm finding the winter blues can be a bit of a downer. No shots of whiskey though, but slashes of crazed colour inks cheered me up this weekend. Not particularly cool but just the tonic for the bleak greyness.<br />
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The results won't win taste awards, but the process is so much fun. Daub some water onto heavy paper in a shape you like (thank you cheap bamboo brushes). Load a syringe or dropper with your psychedelic hues and let gravity take its course. Tilt and swivel for a class of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color">substractive colour</a> theory. If you really get into this, you can start using alcohol inks and glues for some ferral effects.<br />
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Oh, and check out <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/projects/wallpaper/ns2009_1280x1024/10.october.jpg">this image</a> by Pery Burge on the new scientist site... made by firstly dropping some oil-based gold paint onto water then adding two colours of acrylic inks. Beautiful.<br />
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