It’s been a while since I had a proper post on here so I figured it was time for a catch up. I am currently 20 days away from finishing my Foundation Diploma In Art and Design, and up until a week ago I was uni-less. I had replies from three of my five choices telling me I wasn’t good enough. Only one of which actually offered me an interview. I held back from offering any opinion on the process or the uni’s themselves because I did not want to affect where if anywhere I was offered a place.
I was offered a place on a very highly regarded course at Winchester School of Art, I shall be undertaking a BA(hons) in Graphic Arts and I can’t wait, although this wasn’t my first choice uni. Before looking at the uni’s themselves or going to interviews my pecking order was
- Kingston University
- Brighton University
- Chelsea School of Art
- Winchester School of Art
- University of the West
Now Brighton was a long shot to start with as was Chelsea (both coincidentally rejected me before interviews) although I saw Kingston as an opportunity to excel. They offered me an interview to which I attended and spent a good 3 hours there. It was my top uni because of the prospectus and the course description, although from listening to students who were supervising us and those around us the course was a huge deal different to how it was described. I don’t have a problem with group projects but I’m not a huge fan, I’m very independent and I tend to work better by myself as I’m not hindered by others. Before I went into my interview I realised that Kingston wasn’t for me, which they obviously agreed with as they rejected me. This left me with WSA and UWE. Going to an open day at Winchester just solidified that uni as the place I NEEDED to go to. Everything is how I like it. Separate from the rest of the uni, tailored to my skills and full of equipment that I would utilise. Which was proven when I went to the interview recently, I managed to get a place on the course I wanted with a very respectable conditional requirement of a pass on my course. After a few hours of oohing and awwing about whether to choose UWE or WSA (my interview for UWE was 3 days later) I decided that I wanted to go to Winchester and here I am.
So now I’m frantically trying to get all my work finished for AUCB so that I can pass my course and progress to WSA. I think I might die a little bit inside if I didn’t pass and failed to progress to the degree. I am creating a new tea company called Rosy Lee (cockney for tea) an example of one box in my kitchen cupboard is below
The design of the boxes is based around the simple thesis that current tea boxes are DULL. They all have some bland image. Mountains. Hills. Some clouds. With the need to describe what the tea is like on the front in big writing. Why cant you be drawn in by a descriptive image and then find out about the tea whilst looking at the box. As such I present Rosy Lee.
So life is a train wreck waiting to happen but as my tutor says “you have beautiful boxes” so wahey must be doing something right!
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