Sunday, 17 February 2019

TALK WITH ALI

Talk with Ali:
  • works in London
  • Its Nice That creative leader 
  • print, digital, art direction
  • team of editors, project managers, social media managers, marketing team
  • anyways - commercial agency 
  • nicer tuesdays - 4 designers to speak art their work every tuesday in London

PURPOSE:
  • illustration, film n moving image, publication. animation, architecture, advertising, interactive design, graphic design, fashion, branding… 
  • to the broadest audience 

HOW BIG IS THE TEAM:
  • 17 people 
  • share same values, work in separate forms 

WHAT IS OUR WORKING PROCESS:
  • quality over quantity as a publisher 
  1. brand partnership
  2. editorial
  3. printed pages 

editorial —> weekly meetings 
  • present the ideas in the room 
  • critique 
  • take forward ideas 

project: (creative process)
  • illustration approach
  • reach out to the illustrator 
  • write a brief 
  • pull together the idea 
  • idea: imagine objects that we use everyday being exhibited in a museum 
  • understand how they’d like to work 
  • keep it open 

  • work on timely stuff
  • worked with sculptor 
  • the 2012 olympics 

printed pages ( published twice a year) MAGAZINE
  • digital publish can do sth in print 
  • high quality paper and designs 
  • make ppl wanna keep it
  • most important: cover 
  • work fast—> made decision efficiently 
  • choose the right image: dk wt ppl like (customers’ interests
  • designs work well on: online channels<—> magazine 
  • fast paced 
  • shortlisted of chosen ideas 
  • place them on spreads 
  • work physically (try to get off screen)
  • never only design onscreen, make sure we see the thing printed out physically before printing 
  • send spreads to printer (strong bond with printer)
  • start looking at the details after first print draft
  • 2 weeks later —> final print 
  • mixture of words n features 
  • MAGAZINE: commission posters, postcards, stickers, screen prints —> to celebrate the medium 

recent project: its nice the x CANVAS
  • find quick way of working bc of the small team

x THE CONRAN SHOP
  • brief: create exhibition in their window space in London
  • for LDN Design festival

x TIMEX
  • design a watch 
  • hoe do you make it relevant
  • worked with the body of the watch 
  • humanising the face 
  • 2-3 days fro mocking things out 
  • typography idea
  • research on client to design the typeface 

HOW DO WE MAKE MONEY?
  • find diff ways to work with brands
  • speak to audience 
  • ways for ppl to engage with n for ppl to understand 
  • right for publishing for audience and spread the ideas that the brands wanted to 
  • talk through ideas with the client 
  • critique 
  • tell them the idea what the outcome would look like 

*instagram posts: 
  • add new elements to post instead of only taking pictures of the outcome 
  • eg. animation—> bring outcome to live
  • break down stages —> apply on own work
  • print things out 
  • working fast
  • digital is not to show the concept, but pushing ideas further
  • sketch out the initial ideas by hand 
  • typographic approach 

ig: @alihanso 

why print platform? 
  • exist online —> hv most ppl there (read thru the week, while working)
  • print—> connect with audience in a diff way (read when free) 
  • print—> feel it in hand 

TODAY:
  • what is it for? audience? 
  • considerations—> turn them into questions 
  • “what if…”
  • the more you say, the less ppl actually hear 
  • keep it simple 
  • medium!! as a zine? as an exhibition? 

designers:
kelly angood 
  • archiving 
raffael korman 
nejd prah

problem
solution
execution
overall ideas—> 3 possible treatments 

  1. The problem
Who is the positive intervention for?
What problem is it solving?
How will it do good?

These insights will inform your idea.

  1. The solution
Take your considerations and turn
them into questions.

“What if...”

  1. The execution
Take 3 of your preferred solutions and
develop an execution for each using a
chosen medium.

Consider sketching, collage, rendering,
typography, image making, photography,
print, or digital techniques. Also consider
the scale, material, colour and tone used
in your piece to communicate an idea.



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