This week i've been trying to pull together a selection of my work from my course (BA Graphic Design and Communications Studies) for our final degree show next week. But i've hit a massive hating-on-all-design-life brick wall and literally just come off the phone with my parents after having a major post-degree meltdown.
Whilst pulling together all my work I feel like I could have put so much more in to some of the pieces and I feel like i'm not as skilled as a lot of the other designers on my course. My parents obviously just think i'm being stupid, haven't been eating enough, just tired or the funniest one... "feeling a bit lonely up there on your own." - absolutely ridiculous, i've developed an immunity to loneliness over the past year what with the summer and living in this stupid "residences."
Aaanyway, i've calmed myself down a bit and i'm turning it into a positive. What I am showing, I'm gonna man up and be proud of. I'm going to stop feeling like i've let myself down, because at the end of the day, going back this year instead of next was a huge decision and at the time I really thought it was the wrong one but i've proven myself wrong and I wouldn't change anything in my uni experience at all. Yes there are projects I should have worked on the odd night or two where TigerTiger or Call Lane came first, but I don't regret all the memories and experiences i've learnt from all of that - maybe in the long run those kind of life lessons you learn out of the social experience are equally as important?
So heres some images of some of the work I'm putting up, I still need to go and collect some posters tomorrow, which the university printing services have kindly taken over £100 from me for this week. Thats not including the £20 the university are kindly taking from me for the privilege of having a show to show off all our work... seen as a necessity from harassing tutors but apparently isn't included in the necessity of our over 3 grand university tuition fees we pay every year.
And heres some of the promotional images for the show. If anyones around and has a spare hour next week, the show is in the University of Leeds, School of Design from the 18th-22nd of June. Bring your friends, family or absolutely any possible acquaintance who can offer me a job.
For more information you can go to: http://www.reveal2012.leeds.ac.uk/
They've got a really nice little 24hr live webcam going on there too, so keep your eyes on all the revealing!
And for now i'm gonna put the life-decisions breakdown on hold. If this design thing doesn't turn out so well, theres other things I can go in to. I've always had an eye on the social marketing industry after my internship in the summer. Perhaps that will be the route I choose to take instead.
I must go and eat and find some friends.
Lots of designer breakdown love,
Becca xx
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