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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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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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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My pen collection, must-haves for typography designers

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My pen collection, must-haves for typography designers

If you know me, you know that I have a slight obsession with pens. If you don't, well, now you do! For as long as I can remember I'd always be buying new pens; glittery gel pens (that took an eternity to dry), ones with fluffy bobbles on the end (that ran out after two uses), multi-coloured ink ones (that changed colour as you wrote and you could see the coloured ink). It got to the point where I had to have seperate pencil cases for each type of pen because I simply couldn't stop buying them, and then I'd be too scared to use them because "what if they run out and I need that particular pen in an emergency?!"

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I went to Semi Permanent (2017)

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I went to Semi Permanent (2017)

I went to Semi Permanent! For those of you who don't know what Semi Permanent is, it's a worldwide design conference with tonnes of artists, designers and business owners speaking about their experiences, insights and lessons. It's insanely inspirational and encouraging. This year is the first time I've attended, and I thought I'd share my experience with you guys!

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My Design Book Collection

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My Design Book Collection

I have decided to start a series on my blog where I read, write and post a review of a bunch of creative-themed books. Originally, I was going to just do one master post of all the creative themed books that I have; but my collection has almost gotten into the double figures, and that would be far too big of a post if I was going to do every book justice! Plus, I'm most likely going to continue buying and reading more creative books, so why limit myself to what I have now?!

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5 things: they don't tell you about university

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5 things: they don't tell you about university

I am currently two and a half years through my degree at university, so I feel like I have some sort of idea on what happens at a higher education. I have decided to compile a short list of some of the things that I have learnt about university that I wasn't aware of when I was in high school and especially as it's the time of year where applications and portfolios are being sent in, courses are refined and campuses are being selected; now is the perfect time to share my tips with you all

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