Well here goes everybody has to start somewhere and I have no doubt that this will evolve and change with time.
Why am I venturing to write a blog? Inititially I was inspired by my sister Emma, who was having fun, publishing her own blog documenting her creative projects. Then as I thought about it more I realised that, over the years I have regularly kept sketchbooks scince I was 17yrs old. This habit was put in place by an old school Art Teacher who insisted that we kept sketchbooks as part of our study in "A" level Art. He used to gather them in at the beginning of every week, and mark the weekly drawing projects that he had set us to do at home. He believed that he could teach anyone to draw and that it was a skill that needed practice, in the same way that you practice a musical instrument. We were suposed to draw for 1hr a day it always took me 2hrs though. The process of observational drawing is one that teaches me more about an object than any photograph ever will. I will always be grateful to him.
As the years have gone by I would be lying if I claimed to have kept the 2hrs drawing a night up, my sketchbook has become more than a book of weekly excercises, it has become a place where as well as sketching, I note down ideas I don't want to forget, store project research, and develop creative ideas.
The aim of this blog is to share my personal design journey with you, to show how ideas develop for me from the first initial thoughts through to their final conclusion. My long term goal is to create an ethical and sustainable design buisiness.
