Evaluation of the course so far.

This course has been epic! Free studio space, complete freedom, workshop chucked in and gives you an excuse not to do too much shifts at work! Love it. I chose business before this coure for a month because I felt I could do this on my own and had looked at building my own studio because renting was way way too much of an expense but after that failed I really was shit up creek without a padle (I think is the saying). And after visiting FAD while enrolled on business I saw all the cool creative stuff that I was missing out on and just had to come back. That why I say at the start about free workshop and studio space, I was thinking of this from a business mind and what I needed and what I didn't want ti pay for it. 

I've had so much help with the business side of things as well, we had Alister Clarke come in and give us a quick lecture on owning your own business, which got me keen and perked up. I spoke to him after about how to get a grant and he passed he on to Catherine Pearson who helped me get a grant for a pop up shop in Camden but after much deliberation I decided my studies and uni application was important and I wouldn't give tine to do it. So Ki decided to set a shop up onLine, a proper one where you can buy from, get a proper name and logo design and business cards. The grant also slowed for website fees equipment costs and stocking costs, and ice got to tell you it's been great! Pesci g someone else's money, loved it. 

Though out the course I have been trying liars of upcycling ideas amfim still pushing the idea of upcycling bring a genre in art and not just a phase. 

I've made cotton reel lamps which were a hit until it came to stability which I had a few tries at and still working on. Made some robots which are a hit because they are yo do with 'smile in the mind'which is were you make a emotion connection with the viewer and make them 'smile in the mind' so I've been told by my manager who studied graphics design which is all about 'smile in the mind'. I made my fan chair which I love, I think it's photographed perfectly, so strong, ambitions and has a successful pose about it. I have challenged the 'maybes' I've had in the past and just going full steam ahead. 

Met some cracking people and love the diverse grapevine we have.