I’m in week one of uni and already have two assignments to get done so tonight will be spent doing one of them and an 8am lecture in the morning.

Am I tired much? Yes.

Brain fart? Yes.

A whole week of full on new stuff and braindrain. I did learn a new technique for creating concepts today (freekin handy for work as well!) and I’m thinking this might be useful with writing too. I’m already learning new things and loving it.

We did a brainstorming exercise after the lecture today and my god what an amazing wee tool. Generally I have always done the mind map thing, sat down with pen and paper and written down ideas for a logo concept etc. This new way pulls random creativity and takes you places you would just simply not go with simple mind mapping.

I was given the word FRUIT … used the technique and ended up choosing one of the obscure words I ended up with … SNORT … we then did the standard mind mapping technique and I ended up with a lovely generic word .. FRESH. The deal was then to ‘force fit’ or combine SNORT & FRESH and come up with a concept for a fruit stand. Strange things come from force fitting, the first idea was fruit flavoured snorting sticks. Lol was total fun and I ended up with a mascot “Snort” a piggy type character with an organic ‘fresh’ theme stand and the packaging had ‘scratch and sniff’ labels. We did loads of examples and brainstorming and then got given an assignment which is for a logo design for another topic.

Tomorrow’s lecture involves art history. 2 hours worth. Then another two hours of studio time working with black and white paper and cutting out shapes and playing with ‘space’ and more notes.  I’m gonna need strong coffee. Fridays I get off, well no classes anyways.

So the blog may be a little erractic at times depending on what’s going on and what work I need to get done but I knew this was coming.

So yeahs time to go be a mummy then get stuck into homework later.

I still need to get a notebook and a freekin ipod sorted. I neeeeeeed music.