A major update on the Geek Table collective

So I havent been blogging the progress of this brief weekly, so here it is all in one go up to date. So we decided that we were going to organise some kind of exhibition of our work near the end of module and the aim of the exhibition would be to invite designers and studios to come and see our work and know that we will be graduating in case they need an extra pair of hands. We wanted to basically promote ourselves to the industry outside of uni to show that we can organise things on our own as well as take part in the end of year show.

Sophie contacted White Cloth Gallery to see if we could hold our exhibition there, we had been to an event there before and its a really good space. The decision of this is still in progress.

As a group we needed to decide what we were all going to do as part of the collective, for example the branding. Because we couldnt decide we then all had a go at creating a logo and an identity and then brought all our ideas to the table to discuss as a team. We decided to Beth's logo and the pair of glasses that I created as our identity. Beth also made some amazing illustrations of us all which look so real!

We then needed to come up with some kind of concept for the exhibition because we were worried that the work we were going to produce for it would be too random. So after a few discussions we came up with the idea of creating work based upon our experiences as designers. So for example one of the briefs that we would set ourselves would be nightmare clients. So the piece of work we designed would be based upon this theme and we could do what we wanted for it. We would set ourselves design restrictions such as size and colour to try and keep pieces of work working as a set.

We came up with a few briefs that we would complete during the module before the exhibition in May. Some of the other ideas we came up with are:

• Nightmare Clients (clients who are right pains in the arses)
• Guilty Pleasure (things we do that we know we shouldnt when we're designing)
• The Zone (music we listen to when we're 'in the zone')
• Food or drink (something we cant get enough of when we're designing, like chocolate)

We have had a few problems with the bigger picture of the brief because some people got confused over the point of the brief and the exhibition and worried about whether or not people would turn up. I made a point in saying that as long as we promoted the exhibition sooner rather than later and with the amount of people we all have on Twitter to contact, then we should be fine.

We are starting the first of our briefs on Monday 18th February and then doing one every two weeks until the date of our exhibition.

For the exhibition we'll be collaborating with a third year Fine Art student whose going to help us curate the exhibition as it is something she wants to do once she graduates.