Day 4

Sir Ken Robinson

Sounds like the name of an important person, especially with the Sir part added to the beginning of his name. Sir? Does that mean that you have been knighted by the Queen of England?

On a different note, Sir Ken Robinson is a very enlightening and intelligent man. In the recorded lecture he gave at Hammer, that Jimmy showed us in class, Robison discussed the points of his book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. One of the points that he made, and that I found a lot of value in, is what he said about finding your element, finding that some thing that you are passionate about is essential for a person to be happy and want to continue working. Looking back at my short lived life, all the way back to high school, when I worked on my high school yearbook I saw this new world that excited me. I was working and doing things that other kids at school weren’t, I was learning how to use programs that were difficult at times to understand but I couldn’t wait to work on lay outs and see what I would come out with. I enjoyed every second of working on the yearbook, working on layouts, deadline, even pica spacing. I was in the yearbook staff for two years, on my second year I was the Editor-in-Chief and that’s when I realized that I wanted to keep doing this. To make a long story short, that is why I am in Jimmy’s Art 220 class today.

Robinson is a passionate man when it comes to art, at the end of his lecture he ended by saying that we shouldn’t do things that come easy to us, “rethink the ripples of our capacity”. I’m probably not quoting him correctly I was in a rush to get the thought on paper. That just blew my mind, “rethink the ripples of our capacity”. There is a lot that we are capable of doing, and there is more than we can do when we push and surpass our limits. After the video the class took a different direction, Jimmy left the room and gave us an opportunity to discuss some of the main points of the video. The discussion was really good and we all got an opportunity to release our thoughts on to one another. I noticed that we were much more open when Jimmy wasn’t in the classroom. Wonder why? We discussed our support system, we talked about the people that are behind us in becoming graphic designers and how important it was to have people support you. I am very fortunate that my parents have been supporting me from the beginning. I hope I never disappoint them.