Design work in progress, exhibition reviews, ideas and creative process.
If new year has you itching to get down some thoughts and hopes for the year ahead, creating your own mini manifesto could be a great exercise.
I find myself full of seasonal hibernation feelings at the moment, and rather like folding myself into warm corners at home in between the work hours. I may not be quite full manifesto mode, but still find it helps to note down the odd words that float uppermost during a quiet time of sleeping and occasional reflection.
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While making Seashore Slowdown, I wondered what words it may need to help the flow - default setting for an expressive typographer! Realising it could stand as a more pure edit with straight film, I decided to be brave and leave it alone. So, these words I explored—little haiku poems—will probably stay on their sketchbook pages after all. It was a neat writing exercise though.
The haiku, as I discovered, tends to contain two different ideas and reference to the natural world, as well as the 5-7-5 syllables rule.
I found it hard to keep things simple, but this did feel like a great way to practice being eloquent with fewer words when it comes to writing the next animation script.Feeling all inspired now – my mind's buzzing with a few ways this could come to life in a short film!
