The symposium was great fun – meeting old and new colleagues, exchanging business cards and views, enjoying food for the body (lunch was great!) AND food for thought, refreshing professional input all day long.
After chewing on the issues (and my notes about them) three things, of personal value, are emerging:
1. The discussion about labeling makers as designers OR crafters OR artists is still very much alive and kicking and it irritates me beyond commentary.
2. The notion of having to de-learn in order to innovate is something I wholeheartedly agree on. In my opinion in order to create truly fresh things one has to be a novice or a master.
3. Trends picked up: cross-feeding between crafts and industry, new technologies and materials available, DIY/crafts is “hot” in USA thus it will become “hot” here too…
