jayroop

over the past 5 weeks or so things at school have gone from totally relaxed to the beginnings of what will be full on craziness.

a little background: our class has about 19 people in it right now from all over the world. the majority are from sweden (no surprise there), but the rest of us come from thailand, korea, japan, and the united states (that would be me). among us are product designers, industrial designers, illustrators, graphic designers/artists, interior architects, and more. to say that none of us intend to wear just one hat in the next two years would be a complete understatement. rather, the brilliance of the program is the shared knowledge that we have together as one unit combined with the desire to crossover the traditional boundaries we face as ‘designers’.

we have been broken up into discipline specific groups as well as mixed groups to encourage quality feedback and exposure. the first few group and individual meetings with teachers and students yielded rather few results, but today – after having shown our portfolios to each other last week – we all got to see the progress being made on our individual projects.

i took the picture above this afternoon during our mixed group meeting. you can see our teacher, ulf (far right), discussing tommy’s work (left) while albert looks on in the foreground. everyone is working on quite different projects at this point, and it is really inspiring to be in this kind of environment.

but don’t just take my word for it, to give a little bit of insight to the type of work being done in class right now, take a look at this flickr set. i think you will be inspired by what you see.