This months Tuesday Club Lecture was from Ric Frankland, the Founder and Managing Director of Dwelle. Dwelle is an eco- architecture design, and his role is to create these sustainable buildings.
The lecture took us through his life in the industry and there were a lot of lessons from his story. The most important being that you should never give up on something you care about.
Another surprising part of his tale is the stage of his career when he worked from bars and cafes in the northern quarter and mixed with other creatives in this way, developing important contacts and peers. I found this amusing as I always imagined this kind of lifestyle as fiction, just from movies, and it made me really want to venture into the northern quarter in the day with my sketchbook.
Also, Rics lecture highlighted how necessary it is to get your work out in the world, and even though our disciplines are completely different, it applies to everything. You can't get hired if no one knows you exist. Also, putting your work into context makes the viewer able to imagine your imagery what they need. Rics way of doing this is photoshopping his designs into different spaces. I plan to work with live surface and experiment with this as there's so much you can do that I haven't even began to come to grips with.
Some quotes were included in the presentation that really hit home with me as they described the way I need to start thinking when I'm struggling. The lecture was really interesting and inspiring (I really want a Dwelle-ing), so I'll end this with a quote from Robert Brault.
"Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress."
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