ARTEFACT 08

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00:00:00.0 The first thing I want you to do on this sheet is think about your graphic education and remembering that the sheet’s for, it can be graphic education and afterwards, what shape, symbol or image represents your graphic education? What size would you draw that on the sheet? IJS
00:00:26.7 [laughing] I would say kind of not, not too small but not too… medium-sized. 102
00:00:47.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:00:47.9 That’s because I’ve been in education. I’ve been focussing on education, graphic education and design in general since secondary school. 102
00:00:59.7 Uh-huh. IJS
00:01:00.0 I think that’s quite a long time. But then at the same time I feel like there’s, like the potential for more learning is infinity. 102
00:01:09.0 Uh-huh. IJS
00:01:09.9 So… [rustling of sheet] 102
00:01:10.8 Okay. What’s that represent, then? IJS
00:01:30.1 Um, so…so like the spikes represent, like, the kind of direction I can go into ’cause the options are infinity, like I said then. Uh, um…and uh…like it’s just start off in the centre because it’s…like it would represent where I started it and, you know, it goes outwards. I’ve had, like, I’ve been to different schools, like. I took short courses between my summer holidays, interns during my… 102
00:02:05.5 Uh-huh. IJS
00:02:06.3 …my…my time off as well, so I’ve had…I’ve had graphic education from different institutions. 102
00:02:16.5 Mm. IJS
00:02:17.1 So, um…so I think the spikes represent that and then it would go off in different directions. Just my thought of, like, ‘There’s so much things I can go off to.’ 102
00:02:29.2 Okay. Hopeful. I want you to now, if I said to you, ‘Graphic education, what are the main divisions of it?’ That could be about time, it could be about place, it could be about concept or…um…techniques or… If I ask you what are the main divisions of your graphic education, what are they and how would you represent them on here? IJS
00:03:00.2 You mean two main divisions? 102
00:03:03.3 No, as many divisions… IJS
00:03:05.0 Okay. 102
00:03:05.3 …as occur to you throughout your graphic education. IJS
00:03:13.7 Um. [rustling of sheet] So I definitely think that the two main divisions would be, like, the ability to come up with creative ideas. And, like, the ability to kind of visualise that. So I’d have, like, a very stereotypical idea. I mean, light bulb – as boring as it sounds as a creative idea… 102
00:04:30.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:04:30.7 …and I would say, I just drew a pencil. 102
00:04:32.8 Yeah. Okay. So it’s…it’s idea, concept…and the ability to carry that out, in a sense. Okay. Good. But we all go through ups and downs. IJS
00:04:48.4 Uh-huh. 102
00:04:49.2 And I’m wondering what your challenge is of being… IJS
00:05:00.0 Um, just like… um, when you go through, like, a process it’s just like you always…you’re always…like you start from, like, collecting and researching and everything and you’re always in this stage where you’re not sure about how your solution’s going to be. And then that kind of long period of time where you just have to come up with a solution but you don’t know what it is, and then you have this kind of confusion in your head. 102
00:05:22.5 Uh-huh. IJS
00:05:24.7 And I think… Which is, like, a very important design process but which makes it…which makes the whole thing interesting, but at the same time certain challenges that we have, so… 102
00:05:34.8 Yeah. IJS
00:05:35.2 …that stuff. 102
00:05:37.5 So is that one of your specific challenges, would you say? IJS
00:05:41.0 Yeah, I’d say that because, you know, I had a workshop with a guy, a very, um, prestigious person… 102
00:05:50.0 Uh-huh. IJS
00:05:50.1 Um, uh, and he…who was also in design but he was more like a creative thinking kind of presenter. And he…his point was that, ‘Don’t be afraid to… not to have a solution… 102
00:06:02.5 Mm. IJS
00:06:03.0 …when you’re doing a design process’. And that’s…that’s, you know, his words kind of… I thought it was quite important and interesting, so… 102
00:06:12.4 Mm. IJS
00:06:12.7 It’s been stuck with me for while. 102
00:06:13.0 Uh-huh. Good. That’s the challenge, then. What’s the highlight in your graphics education for you? What highlights are there? How would you represent those on here? IJS
00:06:26.7 Highlights as in, like, positive highlights or like negative highlights? 102
00:06:31.9 Uh, positive. You can put the…you can put negatives on as well. IJS
00:06:37.6 Um. [long pause] Um, I spent my internship this summer in Japan. 102
00:06:50.5 Uh-huh. IJS
00:06:51.5 And, um…I did a two-month internship in a packaging design company in Tokyo and, like, it was my first time being part of, like, a design team and then I actually got to feel first-hand, like, how is it to be working with, like, real designers. And it was very…very good learning experience. 102
00:07:15.9 Mm. IJS
00:07:16.6 You get to learn so much that you don’t learn in university and, like, um…sometimes it’s always…it’s also questioning, like, what’s the point of university when it’s, like, so independent and the irony is that you go out in industry, you work with people, uh, you know, how university is meant to be, a place where you explore and meet people and, like, collaborate. But then that actually really… That’s more active when you’re out in the industry, so I think that’s…my intern is where, it was a point where I could have realised that and, um… 102
00:07:53.1 Uh-huh. IJS
00:07:54.4 [unclear] IJS
00:07:55.8 …I see it as a positive highlight. 102
00:07:56.0  [extended rustling of sheet]. So I kind of made… made it in like the shape of a crown. 102
00:09:16.2 Oh yeah? IJS
00:09:17.5 So where I’m seeing it from this side, so… 102
00:09:19.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:09:19.4 …this is the perspective. 102
00:09:19.9 Yeah. IJS
00:09:20.3 And this is because it’s like I feel that was like, uh, one… one accomplishment, like one big accomplishment because obviously getting intern is a very difficult thing to do and in the thing…and the place that I got in was quite prestigious and then you, you know, uh, the…and it felt like a big accomplishment, like a step forward from… 102
00:09:42.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:09:42.7 … education. 102
00:09:42.9 Uh-huh. IJS
00:09:43.7 So I think I would represent that with a crown. 102
00:09:45.1 Yeah? Okay. So maybe, uh, prestigious internship, you might write that… IJS
00:09:56.4 Uh-huh. 102
00:09:57.8 Like it feels very, very significant to you. What would you close on…any… Yep. Okay. [unclear – 0:10:24.8] education, then, with its…um, with its lows and its highs…um…but now I want you to think about, when you think about life beyond this, let’s put professional aside for a moment – we’ll come back to that. But putting that aside, so this is about personal and spiritual, cultural, creative, family. When you look ahead from here, is there an image that sums up what you see in that arena? Personal, creative, spiritual, family, anything that’s not professional. Do you see anything? IJS
00:11:03.6 Sorry, can you elaborate? 102
00:11:06.1 So life ahead. I guess thinking about hopes and aspirations that aren’t to do with your job. IJS
00:11:13.5 Okay. 102
00:11:14.6 Do you see any? IJS
00:11:17.2 Not really ’cause I am so focused on education. 102
00:11:21.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:11:22.2 And actually getting into work. So I think that side of my…life is kind of… 102
00:11:29.4 It’s kind of…? IJS
00:11:30.7 Not there. 102
00:11:31.4 Right. IJS
00:11:32.5 It’s not visible…it’s not something I’ve… 102
00:11:34.7 How do you represent that ‘no thinking’ there? On here? What’s the quality of that not being there? [long pause, rustling of sheet] It looks very nebulous. IJS
00:12:42.6 Um, yeah, a cloud. But I’m not covering the whole thing, like there is… It is nebulous because it’s uncertain. 102
00:12:56.7 Uh-huh. IJS
00:12:57.2 But then at the same time there would be, like, there will be a solution, there will be a way out… 102
00:13:01.1 Yeah. IJS
00:13:01.6 …so there’s a space between the clouds. 102
00:13:02.7 Okay. So they’re not dark clouds but they’re simply…obscuring clouds. Yeah? Okay. Within all that, and you’ve…so you’ve implied this, there’s going to be a professional life… IJS
00:13:24.0 Mm. 102
00:13:24.7 …as well. So how would you represent that professional life? Where does it go on this sheet, your professional life? What are the boundaries of your professional life on this sheet? What does it look like? IJS
00:13:41.2 [long pause, rustling of sheet] Recently I’m starting to realise that, like, professional life is not just one thing because… 102
00:14:19.1 Uh-huh. IJS
00:14:19.2 …like, what you see in this, in this generation of… There is…people who, like, their career shift is really quite often compared to the past and then, like, people were professional life can literally be anywhere. 102
00:14:41.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:14:43.4 So…in any kind of direction. 102
00:14:47.2 Yeah. IJS
00:14:49.0 So because for me, like, I’m still a student and I’m not sure about how…my career is going to be… 102
00:15:00.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:15:01.1 …I would kind of represent that in like stars in all different places. 102
00:15:05.0 Yeah? And these stars, stars are a very…um…wishful symbol. Quite, um…I would say quite distant but bright. Does that represent for you…has any of that got the…a meaning in relation to it, um, your professional life? IJS
00:15:29.7 I guess it’s another…it’s quite similar with what I do with the intern, like it’s…it’s…no, I think it represents, like, accomplishment. But then at the same time it’s something I should be chasing, one after another. 102
00:15:46.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:15:47.3 So I have drawn only one. They’d be multiple and then… 102
00:15:50.4 Yeah. Would one lead to another? Or lead…going on at the same time? IJS
00:15:59.2 Mm. 102
00:16:03.7 Or both? IJS
00:16:06.2 It could be. I just thought of drawing a line between them but then I just thought, ‘Not necessarily all the career.’ 102
00:16:11.8 Mm. IJS
00:16:12.5 Like that they maybe going to have any relation with each other. 102
00:16:15.8 Uh-huh. IJS
00:16:16.5 But [pause] I’d say I can because, you know, eventually it’s…something that would shape me in the future. 102
00:16:36.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:16:37.3 Every experience in here… 102
00:16:41.5 It reminds me what you’re doing now of the star signs, the constellations. The sun, grouped together… IJS
00:16:49.5 Uh-huh. 102
00:16:49.6 …and maybe there’s some that aren’t so connected. [pause] Okay. Yeah. So there’s lots of experiences to be had in that, then? Mm. IJS
00:17:12.6 I am looking forward to that, definitely. 102
00:17:14.2 Uh-huh. That’s professional life. And it does seem to kind of infiltrate your whole life. And it’s also built around this education, isn’t it? And education seems to be so…um, reaching towards your profession. So what, I wonder, we talk so much in graphics and you’ve mentioned it, the industry, industry out there, I want to examine the nature of the industry a little bit. So if you think of the industry, what has the industry got? What kind of boundaries and borders has this industry got? Where does the industry belong on this sheet, in relation to all this? And what name is this industry? IJS
00:18:20.7 What name? 102
00:18:21.9 What name has it got? Yeah. And remember you’ve got a whole load more sheet there. IJS
00:18:28.2 Oh, okay. [laughing] 102
00:18:30.3 [laughing] IJS
00:18:31.9 Um. 102
00:18:33.6 That might not be the appropriate place. IJS
00:18:38.8 I guess the word ‘industry’ quite often will intimidate students and so to me as well, it’s because it’s such…it’s…because the word itself is too big, like, and then it seems really unaccessible, like when you’re a student. I mean, you constantly hear about, like, all ‘this industry’ and, ‘You…’, we have to get into, kind of thing. That’s something really intimidating, so…so it’s definitely…I would visualise it in a way that’s kind of…disturbed space [unclear] in a way. 102
00:19:28.2 [rustling of sheet] [unclear – 0:19:28.5] the environment? IJS
00:19:30.4 [long pause] I’m a bit struggling, to be honest. 102
00:20:18.1 Uh-huh, uh-huh. It’s difficult. Have a think about…um…are you going to be inside this industry or outside or somehow both? Where does the industry belong in relation to your stars, your profession, in relation to education? Where does this industry belong? IJS
00:20:50.8 Um, because I feel that industry not…is not…design industry not necessarily is a group of all design companies. There could be designers in companies outside completely relative to design, like in-house department, for example. 102
00:21:13.0 Uh-huh. IJS
00:21:13.5 So I’d say…like they would be…you know, sometimes I’m like, be doing job that has nothing to do with the design industry. 102
00:21:30.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:21:31.0 And sometimes I might be. So like… 102
00:21:32.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:21:32.7 …so like it would be something similarly scattered in this space. I would kind of draw… 102
00:21:39.1 Okay. [pause] Is…is it to travel through these spaces? As industries? [long pause] Mm. [long pause, rustling of sheet] Uh-huh. IJS
00:22:54.8 Okay, so it sometimes comes together with my career, sometimes it wouldn’t. 102
00:22:59.0 Mm. IJS
00:23:00.3 These… 102
00:23:01.8 You know, the…are these particular industries or are they collections of industries? What are these shapes? [long pause] Or is it the same thing but just in different places at different times? IJS
00:23:33.9 Yeah. Same…they’re essentially the same thing but it’s like I’m…sometimes I might cross this… sometimes I won’t. 102
00:23:42.3 Uh-huh. IJS
00:23:42.9 Um. And it’s how…I think that’s how we kind of learn. 102
00:23:48.8 Uh-huh. IJS
00:23:48.9 How to get better in your industry is like you go in and out. 102
00:23:53.0 Okay. And is that easy? These…you see where you cross here? Um, and there? And there? Are these easy conditions across? IJS
00:24:11.3 So I say that…well, it’s like it’s…it’s together but at the same time it’s also kind of…it’s crossing. It is kind of…it’s like a wall disturbs…sometimes it’s not…it’s most…sometimes it’s not going to be easy to get inside. 102
00:24:28.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:24:28.7 So I think it could be, you know, a disturbance setting onto another… 102
00:24:35.0 Uh-huh. IJS
00:24:35.6 …career that’s more into the industry. 102
00:24:37.9 Uh-huh. So it’s the name, then. Can we get the name? [pause] IJS
00:24:49.2 I wouldn’t say ‘disturbance’ because that just sounds too negative. 102
00:24:55.3 Uh-huh. IJS
00:24:55.8 But ‘challenge’. ‘Challenge’ sounds too…optimistic because I’m not that optimistic at the moment. [laughing] 102
00:25:08.1 Right. IJS
00:25:08.3 So…um…I think it’s each of them could happen differently and can. Or does it have to be…? 102
00:25:16.7 No. IJS
00:25:17.3 Disturbing. [rustling of sheet] So I just wrote ‘dreams’… 102
00:26:08.1 Okay. IJS
00:26:09.0 …because sometimes it may not be… 102
00:26:09.7 Uh-huh. Yeah. IJS
00:26:10.9 …attainable, so… 102
00:26:12.3 Uh-huh. IJS
00:26:12.7 …uh. [long pause] On this one I wrote gate. 102
00:26:38.8 Okay. IJS
00:26:38.9 And it can be an entrance into something more interesting. 102
00:26:44.1 Uh-huh. Yeah. Good. Okay. We’ve got to forge the names now, though. We’ve put your grad education, your wider life that’s mainly embedded in [unclear 0:26:58.2], um, your professional life, these constellations and stars. And industry passed through, by the past sometimes. Um. So there is a…the domains of this and I want to focus back on this education one at the moment. I’d like to know that the moment that you went from whatever was before graphic education into graphic education, what was that transition like? Is there an image that would represent that transition from… IJS
00:27:33.4 From like general education to specific education? 102
00:27:37.8 Yeah. IJS
00:27:38.4 Mine was quite natural because…’cause I in the first place started off with, like, secondary school at A-Level. 102
00:27:49.1 Uh-huh. IJS
00:27:50.1 So I’d say it was very smooth. 102
00:27:52.4 Yeah. IJS
00:27:52.9 So, you know, I would represent that with something that’s…connects all these elements… 102
00:28:01.1 Okay. IJS
00:28:01.7 …in the centre, in a way. [rustling of sheet] 102
00:28:06.7 So you grew up from, the art side of it, connected these? IJS
00:28:11.2 Say it again, sorry. 102
00:28:13.0 What you brought from the outside connected these. IJS
00:28:16.2 Mm. 102
00:28:16.4 You said that…that it was…it was about, um, the naturalness of this to you. The connections. IJS
00:28:25.3 Uh-huh. So… [long pause, rustling of sheet] 102
00:29:01.8 Mm. IJS
00:29:04.8 [rustling of sheet] 102
00:29:10.9 Right, so what’s that? IJS
00:29:12.1 [rustling of sheet, pause] So it’s kind of my education into graphics…graphics was kind of very…wireless. 102
00:29:35.6 Mm. IJS
00:29:37.3 It’s…it’s expanding. There was not, like, one place to another. 102
00:29:41.6 Yeah. IJS
00:29:41.8 It was like a flow. 102
00:29:43.8 Right. It was you expanding into it. IJS
00:29:47.4 Uh-huh. 102
00:29:47.4 Yeah? Lovely. That’s the memory of coming in. Now the projection [chuckling] of leaving this education into outside, there. What do you imagine that transition to be…is going to be like? From this. IJS
00:30:13.6 From education into…my…work? 102
00:30:17.6 To all… IJS
00:30:19.5 That’s kind of done already, like… 102
00:30:21.1 Uh-huh. IJS
00:30:21.4 …with the spikes. 102
00:30:23.3 Yeah. IJS
00:30:24.0 Like how…you know, it’s like…let’s say this is like a galaxy and then, like, this main… um, spiky thing in the middle is where my planet, where my education is, and then within that there is the main image, you know, main accomplishment… 102
00:30:40.4 Uh-huh. IJS
00:30:40.5 …which is the intern I had. 102
00:30:41.5 Yeah. IJS
00:30:42.2 And, you know, the planets start off from education in the middle which can be developed and widened into specifically graphic education. And now, like the triangle is reaching and the planet’s trying to expand more and… 102
00:31:01.3 Yeah. IJS
00:31:02.4 …separate into different stars, which is… 102
00:31:05.8 Okay. IJS
00:31:06.4 …representing different careers. 102
00:31:07.7 Uh-huh. IJS
00:31:08.2 So… 102
00:31:08.7 So is that easy? The next stage. When you…there, perhaps to there. IJS
00:31:18.0 I guess because it’s not easy and there’s also definitely uncertainty, there is that space between the spike and the star and the lines. And…I think, you know, how it kind of gets narrow in the end kind of represents how severe it may be. 102
00:31:39.0 Okay. Yeah. So that’s about the intensity of the experience, I guess. IJS
00:31:45.0 And then there is intensity but it’s not the end of the world because there are other choices. 102
00:31:48.8 Mm. IJS
00:31:49.3 That’s why there are multiple spikes. 102
00:31:50.9 Uh-huh. IJS
00:31:51.6 At the end of each. 102
00:31:52.7 So you might go right to the end of, say, that one, and decide it’s not this one, decide there’s not…there’s nothing there for you. But that’s fine because… IJS
00:32:02.3 Because there are always other ways and you, you kind of find your way through that… 102
00:32:08.0 Uh-huh. IJS
00:32:08.2 …by looking back on your education and then…and then you find… you kind of, going back to your memory, what you were good at and then you, you know, go into different… 102
00:32:18.2 Yeah. IJS
00:32:18.8 …stages and then it gets a bit more difficult again. But maybe I would make it into a specific career. 102
00:32:28.0 Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. That makes a lot of sense, yeah. So given all this [rustling of sheet] here and all these domains, and what you’re doing now, the best use you’ve got a few months now until the end of this education, what’s the very best use of that time? IJS
00:32:54.7 Mm. I guess it’d be a bit more in… [pause] you know, even though it’s third year it’s still university so I should be doing more exploration. 102
00:33:18.8 Okay. IJS
00:33:18.8 So let’s say these spikes were on different paths and then, you know, we were meant to be exploring different pathways. 102
00:33:26.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:33:27.2 So I would make like a station. 102
00:33:29.4 Uh-huh. IJS
00:33:32.6 Mainly ’cause I need to be exploring. 102
00:33:34.8 Uh-huh. [pause] IJS
00:33:42.9 I think that’s what I’m doing. I’m…I’m focusing every project or every… 102
00:33:48.9 Uh-huh. IJS
00:33:49.6 …everything I do I will look into and experience different…way I could take my career into. Or one of my future plans. 102
00:34:01.5 Uh-huh. IJS
00:34:01.9 And then I would be…I would explore it in a different…in…from all the different, um, area. 102
00:34:09.6 Uh-huh. IJS
00:34:10.3 So that, I think, that’s where I’ll be coming. 102
00:34:13.6 Yeah? Yeah. Good. Good luck with it. I hope you find which pathways you want to go down. Um. Thank you for doing this. IJS
00:34:27.2 [laughing] 102
00:34:27.4 How did you find it? IJS
00:34:29.0 Um. You know, I was really nervous in the beginning but then I just thought, ‘You know what? Like in drawings you can always develop on what you do in the beginning.’ 102
00:34:37.3 Mm. IJS
00:34:37.8 So I think…you know, I think I did quite…I think I was able to communicate well… 102
00:34:44.1 Uh-huh. IJS
00:34:44.6 …in my own way. 102
00:34:45.6 Yeah? Yeah? IJS
00:34:48.6 Obviously like the clouds are like the life outside your professional career. It’s like a cloud because I don’t spend thinking about it so much. 102
00:34:56.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:34:56.2 ‘Cause it’s not like who… I… I don’t have, like, other specific goals at the moment so… 102
00:35:03.2 Uh-huh. IJS
00:35:03.8 …beside…beside from, like, stepping into a career-wise. I want to get through this stage, then it’s kind of like… 102
00:35:09.1 Uh-huh. IJS
00:35:10.9 …I might start looking into… 102
00:35:12.3 Yeah. More when you’re closer… IJS
00:35:13.9 Yeah. 102
00:35:14.0 …to that. Yep. Good. Excellent. Thank you very much. And thanks for your time. IJS