Wednesday evening I was lucky enough to attend the Information Is Beautiful Awards 2013. You may remember I posted about making The Longlist? Well that’s as far as I got (I’m still honoured!) but fellow Lincoln grad, Ben Willers, made it to The Shortlist and asked me if I would like to go to the awards as his +1 – what a lovely guy, hey? This was the first design awards ceremony that I’ve attended...
It might seem like I’m spending a lot of time in London, but it just happened to be a busy/lucky week! After visiting Lucy at the weekend I went back to visit fellow Lincoln GD grad Ben Willers – more about that in my next post! Ben has just moved to London after randomly viewing a flat… and moving in the next week! He’d never been to the Design Museum and I knew the ‘Hello...
Whilst I was helping at the 3rd year’s show on Friday evening, my phone was buzzing like crazy. It wasn’t until the end of the night that I saw someone had commented on my blog ‘Congrats on being FP’ which meant… …I made the front page of WordPress! Being Freshly pressed is quite an achievement – ‘The best of 398,382 bloggers,645,239 new posts, 1,253,744comments, & 143,986,810 words posted today on WordPress.com.’ – That’s a lot of competition! I’ve been FP before but this...
As I mentioned Saturday, I’m a bit behind on the posts at the moment. Last week was action packed, but today is the first day of a self directed study week so I’m in the middle of making a to-do list – it’s pretty long! Last Tuesday Ben Willers, an ex-Lincoln student visited to talk data visualisation. I visited his MA show back in September so was familiar with his work but as always, it’s...
Tonight T-Bish, Dani and I attended the University of Lincoln School of Art & Design Postgraduate Private View Evening 😉 The exhibition is being held at the Greestone Building, which none of us had been to before but Glen was quick to point us in the direction of the Print rooms… … unfortunately locked now but I will be going to have a play about in there sometime soon! 🙂 The building has quite an...