A Few Of My Favourite Things

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

― Oscar Wilde

One of our module lecturers gave us a number of pre-starter tasks to complete before the module started up in the second semester. These tasks were a range of different things for us to complete, the WWF Carbon Footprint Calculator being one, and the creativity test being another. 

Task two was to figure out who we are as a designer by reflecting on our favourite things. So here is mine...

Artist= Barbra Hepworth

Graphic Designer= Jessica Walsh

Fashion Designer= Donatella Versace

Garden Designer= Nigel Dunnett

Landscape Architect= Capability Brown

Inventor= Charles Babbage

Architect= Le Corbusier

Engineer= Leonardo Da Vinci

Sweet= Refresher

Musician/Band= David Bowie

Scientist= Rosalind Franklin

Film Director= Shonda Rhimes

Author= Shari Lapena

Pasta shape= Tagliatelle

Horticulturist= Monty Don

Smell= Freshly cut grass

Sound= Wind in trees

Taste= Salt

Plant/Flower= Bird's nest fern (Asplenium nidus)

Material= Slate

Texture= Denim

Colour= Yellow

Typeface/ Font= Urban Rounded

Industrial or Product designer= Philippe Starck

Garden or Park= Powis Castle and Gardens

Art Gallery= Hepworth Gallery, Yorkshire

Place on Earth= Home

Fruit= Strawberry

Time of day= 3pm

Day of the year= June 20^th

Shop= Lush

Piece of music= Happy Hour, The Housemartins

Piece of poetry or lyrics= “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”

Book= The Couple Next Door

Flavour of crisps= Salt and vinegar

Coniferous tree= Scots Pine

Design Style/Period= Modernism

Commercial Brand= Disney

Entrepreneur= Karren Brady