The walk consisted of graphic design studios across East London opening their doors for a day for people to go and visit, celebrating the work and practices of London's female designers who's work is in the fields of typography, print-making, illustration, photography and film-making. It is to allow a unique insight into their working environments and practices.
We both really loved the sound of it, and thought it would be a great way to see a number of design studios in London at once, rather than making various trips to see an equivalent amount. With us not discovering it until a week before, to book to go on the train was going to cost a bomb, so I offered to drive. We did invite Sophie and Beth to join us, but they didn't end up coming in the end. After the 6.30 start to the journey, it's fair to say that we had a great day. It wasn't until we were half way there that I told Baljeet I had never actually drove to London before, and then seeing her reaction was quite interesting. I don't think I did too bad though really, and was definitely an experience.
The day before we went to the event, we sat down and worked out which of the studios we would like to visit while we were there, and found out where abouts each of them were and how to get between them all (so we could have a rough idea of how long to spend at each and what not). It's fair to say that doing this proved more difficult than expected, but we did it in the end. We chose of the 5 studios that we would have potentially liked to visit.
The walk began at [Space] Gallery, which was named the 'Base Camp'. This is where the tickets (in the form of a detailed map for £5) were sold to then allow access into the participating studios. At the camp there were numerous peoples work exhibiting there to see, as well as the studios around London. We had a quick look at these but wanted to get on our way.
Even though we had planned to visit 5 of the studios, we ended up visiting 3 of these. It would have been 4 but we got lost after the 3rd and we were running out of time. The ones that we did visit were:
I have produced separate blog posts for each of the studios.
The experience of the day as a whole was pretty amazing. It made the reality of what it would possibly be like working in design studios more apparent as for some reason I always imagined huge spaces with numerous Macs all over the place and being really busy full of designers, but I now realise that this is not always the case. The whole experience of being in London and visiting the studios has made me realise that this would probably be something I would love to do once I do finish Uni, so it is definitely something to add to the list (although it isn't a definite decision).
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