The Design Kids

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The Design Kids

I’ve been working at The Design Kids for a wee while now, and something I often get asked is “what even is The Design Kids” and “what do you do there?”. I thought I’d let you in on what I do at TDK! The Design Kids is all about connecting creative students and graduates to the industry, and my role as a Host is to run a monthly meet-up, and help facilitate the Wellington part of the TDK website and the Wellington Facebook group. I’m helping connect creatives in their early part of their career to the industry and to each other!

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My thoughts following Semi Permanent (2019)

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My thoughts following Semi Permanent (2019)

So, it's actually been a wee while since Semi Permanent Auckland actually happened (turns out two holidays and having your arm in a cast for a few weeks really takes up a lot of your spare time!), but I still have quite a lot of thoughts about what was discussed. This year's post I am categorising all my notes into five main topics; inclusivity, accountability, limitations, future thinking, and individuality.

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Mentoring at Startup Weekend (2019)

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Mentoring at Startup Weekend (2019)

Over the 12-14th July I was a mentor at Wellington's 2019 Startup Weekend. For those who are unaware of what Startup Weekend is all about, it is a gathering of innovative people to think up a startup idea and develop it over the course of 54hrs, and then pitch it to a group of industry leaders - the winners getting some awesome prizes to help kick off their new startup business!

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Fighting Imposter Syndrome

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Fighting Imposter Syndrome

Wow, it's been quite a while since I last did a post on here. I've been battling with myself over where I see this blog heading in the future - the types of posts I want to write, how regularly I want to publish, heck even the aesthetic of the site itself. Then time just went on and on and on, and it hit me that the longer I went without posting, the less I felt like I was "allowed" to post, like if I am not posting regularly then what is the point of it all anyway?

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My experience with innovation programme, Smart Seeds (2018)

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My experience with innovation programme, Smart Seeds (2018)

Earlier on in the year I took part in an innovation programme called Smart Seeds. It was twelve jam-packed weeks of researching, ideating, planning, meeting and presenting - and honestly it's still going many months later!

Smart Seeds is a worldwide, design-lead innovation programme focused on solving complex challenges facing the world and is targeted towards young professionals. It's all about getting upcoming leaders with a range of experiences to come up with solutions that benefit their community.

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Screen-printing for the first time

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Screen-printing for the first time

Last week I attended my first ever screen-printing class. I have adored this technique from afar for many years but always thought it was just far too technical and complicated, and that I would muck it up somehow so never actually tried to do it. It wasn't until The Design Kids advertised that they were going to have a class run by Home-Work that I thought "why not" and signed up the moment tickets were on sale!

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Being on antidepressant medication

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Being on antidepressant medication

For a lot of you who know me in real life, and who follow me on social media, you would likely know that I have been on antidepressants for the past few years. Four years in fact. About halfway through last year I decided it was time me to try life without them, and in April this year (with the help of my doctor) I started to ease myself off them, and at the end of August I was completely clean.

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Taking My Place: C3 Church conference

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Taking My Place: C3 Church conference

A few weekends ago a group of friends and I from my church packed up our pastor's car and headed on up to Taupō to go to our church's National Gathering of Creatives conference! I learnt a heck of a lot at this conference, it's theme was Take Your Place. I went into the conference not exactly knowing where my "place" in the creative world is, and I came out, not knowing per se - but with a little bit of comfort about where I am creatively at the moment. To me, taking my place means feeling empowered and using my authenticity within my personality and channelling that into my creative work.

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