Creative Convos : Regular Practice

Tom Finn and Christopher Sølling - Regular Practice Developing methodologies as a student through to commercial practice - masters at RCA - consider themselves as technically efficient but tried to challenge and push themselves into making something they don’t normally make - working together was like a break from their college - tried to portray an industrial manufactured vibe - re-contextualising found typography to move forward with their design - they were allowed the freedom to produce interesting work - use commercial level printing - icon magazine was their first piece of work at Regular Practice Tinted Window// - they had both worked with them before which aided them as they knew what they were about - were allowed to do experimentive type flow British Council// - directly linked to posters they had done in college - curator Lauren Child - needed to work alongside her work - gave her a blank template of 4 posters to draw as she wants Serpentine Work Marathon// - weekend of lectures / talks Mute Records// - exercise of form - something you can apply to form - a lot of their work related back to RCA Prepping for industry - nothing can replace good work - don’t make a website in a night - focus on documentation and a strong PDF portfolio first - Utilise your time in education to make interesting work - push practice whilst you can - strategise and customise your approach to people - make it different for everywhere you are emailing - go to stuff - make connections and show your interested - documentation of how you do stuff swell as finished product is key