#creative enterprise

Can we build on successes of the past to leverage into the uncertainties of the Post Pandemic Planet drawing from energies & optimism of the creative arts & culture sectors? Reflections in Indigeneous & Patriot month between Independence & Republicanism

Can we build on successes of the past to leverage into the uncertainties of the Post Pandemic Planet drawing from energies & optimism of the creative arts & culture sectors? Reflections in Indigeneous & Patriot month between Independence & Republicanism. Share some memories of the odyssey in arts and culture in this patriot month between Independence and Republic Day. This reflection is from…

Sign up now for the Creative Enterprise Business Support programmes, supported by InGAME to offer free places for five Scottish game studios.

InGAME And Creative Enterprise Offering Business Support To Scottish Games Companies InGAME and Creative Enterprise are hosting a webinar exploring the UKIE and Creative Enterprise business support programmes for Scotland-based videogame makers. InGAME is once more stepping up to offer free places to FIVE games companies in Scotland, following the success of the innovation centre’s support in…

Creative Enterprise Skills, a project by Stimulus Africa in partnership with British Council, focuses on supporting creatives with entrepreneurial skills they require to establish themselves as creative businesses by offering free training. The Creative Enterprise Skills programme is a combination of a five-day taught enterprise development course as well as a six month mentorship programme.

CES training dates and locations:

Cape Town: 23-27 April,  GugaS’thebe

Durban: 7-11 May, Open Plan Studio

Pretoria: 14-18 May, Geekulcha

This course will be taught to creative entrepreneurs and will equip the participants with basic entrepreneurial skills they require to establish themselves as creative businesses. Each participant will go on to implement a specific business model developed during the training. The project is targeted at creative entrepreneurs between the ages of 18-35 years old.

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Deadline: 17 April 2018

Thursday

I spent this day painting as it was just something I wanted to do, and I needed it as a release for some personal issues, but I made the pieces link in with mental health/illness as I have a couple of briefs at the moment that the pieces could fall in to.

Using a reference of a porcelain figure someone created, I painted a profile of a face with acrylics. Once it had been made, I decided to cut out the eye area and the top half of the page around the head shape. I was then able to make other pieces of work on separate pieces of paper to create the rest of the image - the eye and the top area - to fill in the overall image - adding eyes or other illustrations in the eye area, and filling in different things that could be ‘inside the person’s mind’ at the top of the page.

I played with various ideas, trying to represent mental illnesses in different ways that various people could related to.

Friday

This wasn't a very productive day for personal reasons, but I spent some of the day talking to people about FMP ideas, as the idea of making a comic didn’t seem appealing to me, and I don’t think it is the type of art I’d like to go in to.

Targets

-          Start work on the illustrations for my Creative Enterprise book.

-          Research depression and death in art.

Thursday

To begin the day, we had a presentation on the Quadridian, or the art of using found objects.

I spent the next part of the morning working on ideas for Britain Now – looking at statistics about mental health in Britain, now, as the theme is society and I think it’s something that everyone needs to know more about and I want to show people why this is. While looking at the information I was finding, I was thinking about what information would make a good illustration, or set of illustrations.

In the afternoon, I looked at silent book ideas again, such as what theme I could set it around – mental health, dreams, depression, fairytales, etc.

When talking to my teacher about FMP ideas in our individual tutorial time, it was suggested to me to look into a small project I had done last year as an afternoon brief – the idea was a small comic strip showing my day to day fight with the monster of ‘depression’. This has given me the idea to look more into personifying mental health, but also to look overall at mental health and illness in art and illustration.

 Friday

I spent the morning working more on the FMP idea and doing more research, such as looking into artists who show mental health in their work, or people who have tried personifying them as monsters or characters.

In the afternoon, I started planning the book layout for my creative enterprise, working out what sort of information I could add into it and roughly where I would put each piece of information in a way that it would flow together and wouldn’t look like it is jumping back and forth from one bit of information, to something else completely unrelated.

I took a break from this when I thought I had it all roughly laid out, and looked at the film/cinema exhibition brief, and started looking at Ghibli films – specifically trying to find one film to match to each of the main seven archetypes in movies, as I would like to create an illustrative piece combining the chosen seven. If I cannot find one to match each archetype, I might look instead at just the heroines in them and find something else to link some of them together for an illustration.

Targets

-          Finish creative enterprise proposal.

-          Finish looking at Ghibli movie archetypes.

Thursday

We started the day by critiquing our week long Ephemeral projects. For mine, I had looked at ephemeral work that doesn’t last for a long time, before looking at art with ephemeral themes within, a lot of which had butterflies in. I looked at pain in art as well, such as scarification, or creating art on top of scars, as, although they are not ephemeral art in themselves, the pain that caused the scars is – it juxtaposes ephemeral elements with long-lasting art.

After that, it was more working on my FMP idea, as well as starting to brainstorm and research ideas for competitions that I intend to take part in.

Throughout the afternoon, we all had small group tutorials with our year groups, just to reflect on what we are doing and how we are getting on with our ideas.

 Friday

I’d lost motivation by this day as I was starting to rethink my visual novel idea for my FMP, as I just wasn’t keen on it anymore – it would be a lot of work for one person in just a few months, with other work on top of it, and I decided I want to create a visual novel, but in my own time, without rushing it, and forming my own little group to help work on it.

In the afternoon, I talked to Richard about ways of ‘getting out there’ more as an illustrator and getting known online more – a lot of which I already know, although I was given some new websites to check out such as 99Designs.

Targets:

-          Work on a simpler art style to use for illustration competitions/work/web-comic ideas to get out there more.

-          Rethink what I want to do and come up with a new idea for next week.

Based on researched current cultural trends, popularity of visual platforms, multiplicity and escapism, there are three based needs have evolved.

multiple experiences from design

more opportunities to appreciate art; more opportunities to communicate with designer/artist; more opportunities for consumer’s to participate in design background.

more interaction

Over the time fashion photography has established itself as an independent discipline. It is not just photography anymore it is a performance, an interaction with product for aesthetic or marketing purposes.

Fashion bloggers like Sydney fashion blogger, Chloe Chill, Winston and Willow are part of an elite of bloggers that established the new way of fashion photography, such as ‘daily look’, ‘view from the top’, ‘mirror selfie’.

There is also development in editorial photography, designers choose more conceptual ways and treat editorials as an artistic expression of the collection. Jacque Mus use collaging in his editorials; in the editorial ‘touch’ by Opening Ceremony model’s body is used as a still life object.

The tendency of ‘faceless’ fashion photography is becoming more common as well, we can see it in Opening Ceremony editorials ‘color run’ and ‘magrette’. There are many ways that photographers and stylist use in order, to present body as a commodity in fashion photography, an abstraction instead of clarity.

Over past couple of years still life movement has risen among the social media, visual platforms. We see still life in the magazines, on the banners, on the web sites there are even separate categories and archives for still life online.(see screenshots from Trendland.com)

Still life is dated back to nineteen hundreds but contemporary still life has more popularity that ever before. Nowdays still life is a multidisciplinary art, spacial designers, architects, photographers, visual artists everyone can be a still life artist and somehow incorporate it in their practice. Highlights og my research among still life creations were Anny Wang also known as @annyversary, Anny is spatial and furniture designer from Sweden; Visual artists XL and Donson from FAKEDCANDID; Accessories designer Ally Capellino; Innovational technology Bang & Olufsen. All of these practitioners belong to different disciplines but still life bring them together.

An existence of hybrid design space gives an opportunity for more interaction, multidisciplinary and innovation. It seams that still life brings more innovative way to market/showcase product or service.

“Entrepreneurs are the agents of innovation and creative destruction... the essence of strategy is choosing to perform activities differently than rivals do” - Joseph Schumpeter (Innovation intelligence and entrepreneurship in the fashion industry,2012)