After 2 weeks in a school I got a week off, the joys of being a teacher! I did have a lot to get on with however so after a really fun weekend in Lincoln saying goodbye so some great friends of mine who are moving to Australia it was time to get on with things. Once up from a much deserved lie in I got organising my folders and all the paperwork I have collected over the past few weeks.
Tuesday morning I was back at Goldsmiths for my first tutorial meeting, it was good to speak to someone about how the past few weeks have been going and we made sure I had been doing everything I should have been doing and flagged up any issues. I definitely felt a lot better after the meeting, I was feeling a bit lost and confused for a while thinking I was doing quite well but not really sure I was actually doing well, I at least now know I am on the right tracks and know what I have to do in the next few weeks.
During my week off, my boyfriend and I took a trip to the design museum; there was a couple of really good exhibitions on. ‘Kenneth Grange – Making Britain Modern’ was quite inspiring, he is one of Britain’s leading Product Designers and has been designing for over 50 years. He has designed such a vast variety of products from food processors and razors to London’s Black Cabs and trains. My favourite item from his exhibition was probably ‘The Really Useful Bookcase’ from his one of his personal projects as it really shows his fun side amongst all the clients, briefs and restrictions. The bookcase doubles up as a coffin with removable shelves and a lid stored at the back, he really has fun with the clarity of functionality.
Another exhibition showing at the minute is ‘This is Design’ and is definitely worth a look. Some design classics are on show such as the anglepoise and the red phone box. I was easily pleased as there was a pretty big collection of chairs for me to gaze at, chairs by Charles and Ray Eames, Marcel Brueur and Ron Arad amongst many others. What I really loved about the exhibition though was the really overlooked design objects such as British road signs. The amount of work that goes into designing them down to spacing of the letters was pretty inspiring and with Design and Technology really struggling in the curriculum at the minute it really made me think all the politicians should come and see this exhibition to see how much Design effects everything we use everyday.
For the first time I really found myself looking at the exhibition and only really thinking about the students at my school. I kept taking pictures to show them for inspiration, thinking how things I had seen could really help with their projects and what they could learn from the exhibition I had a really nice moment of contentment that this is definitely a career I am going to love.
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