Blunder Mondays

This PPP session entailed a revival of ‘designer speed dating’, this time working in groups and moving around the table commenting and giving advice on worries or concerns people had written, about graphic design and getting a career in it. From here, one of these ideas was picked, and a solution had to be devised in any format, be it an app, event, social media campaign etc. The idea chosen was being concerned about the ramifications of making mistakes in a real career scenario as opposed to just in the studio at uni. It was important to consider both the impact and the implementation for the idea, with the best case scenario being it was very impactful and easy to implement. The idea ended up as a social media campaign and hashtag, which could later lead to more impactful platforms such as an event or podcast:

“Blunder Mondays is a celebration of human error in design. Young and accomplished designers alike can share their mistakes using the hashtag on instagram, adding to an archive of the best examples. This initial social media campaign will lead to other more impactful platforms.”

I enjoyed this exercise, firstly because it was nice to see that everyone else had very similar concerns about moving forward in design after uni. Coming up with a creative solution to these concerns and considering the implementation and impact was a very useful skill to develop, one which will be useful in future briefs. It was interesting to put our ideas in the context of the real world and to actually contemplate how we might go about actually carrying this out.