1. Treat other people the way you would them to treat you 2.

Honest is always the best policy 3. Dont be disheartened by criticisms in life, use them constructively instead 4. Learn from mistakes- (and dont make the same mistakes twice!) 5. Dont be afraid to experiment and try new things

6. Smile- its good for you and spreads a positive and happy vibe 7. Keep my room tidy at all times- a tidy room= a tidy mind (and a good work/chilling space) 8. There is no point in worrying, so theres no point in wasting time by worrying about everything all the time. Things always come together in the end

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Emily Ball

1. To do design that i like, and be inspired by my personal likes. 2. Keep things simple. 3. To keep developing my knowledge of everything Im interested in, and develop as a person. 4. Enjoy life, dont moan. 5. Stay tidy and organised.

Greg Ball

1. develop my understanding of the grid and how to use it within layouts to create effective design. 2. constantly evaluate and develop my own practise of work. 3. explore the different styles of design work, to find the one that suits me best. 4. explore the world of publishing and the design of that nature.

5. use my time effectively to get the best out of my design work be it uni or personal work.

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Nathan Bolton

+PLANNING: Use time wisely, get things done, dont waste time doing pointless unproductive things.. +TRAVEL: Try new things, go to different places, experience other cultures! +SMILE:Be positive, life is short. +Take photographs, make a visual diary, create memories, have something to look back at and remember!

+ORGANISE: Dont leave things till the last minute, get them done without rushing, the outcome will be better. +Make lists and keep track of what needs doing +DONT WORRY: No matter what it is, worrying only makes you feel worse...life should be stress free + A good deed goes a long way, help people out, be kind, be generous, be helpful, the favour will be returned

Kathryn Brookes

I will... I will strive to create work both mentally and visually engaging. I will aim to never claim I know it all. I will always keep an open mind but have my own informed opinions. I will always work for the good of people over the good of wealthy pockets.

I will accept my flaws and learn from them.

Joel Burden

- I will be more efficient with my time; there are only so many hours in a day, you need to make the most of them. - I will be organised at all times; a tidy environment gives room for inspiration - I will take more advantage of opportunities given to me; never say no to something that might lead to something better - I will not let things get me down; we have one life so make the most of it

- I will not get into debt (Bruce Maus inspiration). Financial control leads to creative control. - I will enjoy life and not worry about the future; live every day as it comes - I will not be afraid of making mistakes; everyone makes them its how we move on thats important

- I will focus more heavily on my design studies; remember to take advantage of design education and opportunities that I come across - I will listen carefully to what others have to say; then I will decide whether to act upon their advice - I will laugh; laughter is an unbelievable act that is healthy and changes the way we view the world.

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Lisa Collier

I will strive to achieve to the best of my abilities. I will be the best person to those who matter most. I will approach tasks with structure. I will accept failure and learn from it faster. I will continue fuelling my inspiration from new and past experiences.

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Natalie Dyson

1. Keep on illustrating as often as possible. 2. The more you do the better you get. 3. Make everything into a project 4. Make boring things interesting 5. Have fun with things !

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Andy Foster

Never forget that there is no design with no process Produce work I am proud of, uncomprised Reading will help me understand design The computer is not my friend, it is a tool Drawing is to design is what milk is to a white coffee

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Ross Francis

1_ I will learn something new everyday. This could be design related, or general learning. This could be practical learning, trying new techniques and methods or reading etc. This relates to the PPP module. 2_ I will improve my presentation techniques. From photography that I use on my blog, module hand-ins and spoken presentations.

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David Gaskell

3_ I will find a new designer/artist work daily. This will allow me to improve my scope/ knowledge on the subject. 4_ I will follow more self-directed projects. This will help me implement the new techniques I will be learning. 5_ I will draw more. I need to improve my drawing skills, it is a big weakness in my design work. I have made steps to improve this during the Design Process module. I will continue to practice my drawing daily.

6_ Ask questions. Sounds simple, but asking questions rather than running to google. Essentially, vary research methods. 7_ Work, work, work. There is no avoiding the fact that to improve, I need to do more work. I need to read more, see more, design more, go to more places. Generally work my ass off from now until the end of my life.

1.I WILL note my thought processes more so i remember ideas from on the go 2.I WILL stick to my guts 3.I WILL do what i can to help other people 4.I WILL learn to let go and accept to discard ideas 5.I WILL do whatever will make me happy

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Imogen Hoefkens

1. From my experience this year I have made a list of concise points I think are relevant to my design practice. 2. Be nice to people. I think if your design is good and you make your self approachable people will approach you with various opportunity. More people will approach you then someone who is also good but intimidating. 3.Be your own person. It is good to get feedback and advice but if you really feel strongly about something make your own decision. Whats the worst that can happen. 4. Try something new. Whether it be mediums, media and or techniques. The more you explore the more experience you will have.

5. Make lists. Lots of people say making lists is good and I agree. Once you can see what needs to be done written down personally it makes whats needs to be done manageable. Also crossing things off the list like your name is Earl is very very satisfying. 6. Try not to worry. This bit of theory I got from the film Oldboy. People are only scared of something if they imagine or picture the consequences or negative result of the occurring action. If something is worth worrying about do what you can. If you have done something about it and there is nothing else you can possibly do, dismiss it from your mind.

7. Travel and experience. Try and built a wealth of interesting experiences, hobbys, relationships, cultures, countrys. This serves as inspiration and is also fun. If you worked everyday at your desk your work would be shit. 9. Try and keep a visual diary. I generally forget what I get up to, not because its boring, just because my memory is rubbish. I think photography is a good way of keeping a visual diary. 10.Set yourself goals. Long term goals and short term goals. For example, short term goal - get your work or blog you follow. Long term goal - get your work published in a printed publication.

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Sam Hoh

1. Be committed and plan your time. If you feel you dont have enough time. Stop watching TV. Stop social networking. Stop Procrastinating. 2. Stop worrying about everything! Worrying solves nothing! Do something. Do as much as you can but dont worry! 3. Dont be afraid to fail! Its not embarrassing to fail, it shows your not afraid to take a risk. Have the balls to do what you want. Experiment with design and break the rules. The best designers think outside the box. Learn from your mistakes.

4. Keep travelling, Keep experiencing different cultures and environments. Keep getting inspired by the world around you. Leave the past behind and move forward. 5. Work with people. Being a designer is a social amusement park. Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate. Work with as many people from as many different backgrounds as you can. Work together and bounce ideas off each other, inspire each other. 6.Learn something new every day and keep a diary of everything! Take a photo every day and make a visual diary!

7. BE KIND to people and treat others how i want to be treated. Good things happen from kindness. Aim to do at least one kind deed every day. Keep the good karma on my side. 8. Make lists. Set goals and plans regularly from what i want to achieve! wether that is daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.

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Sam Lane

1..I need to understand that all design happens within a context, otherwise there wouldnt be relevant communication. If it doesnt take context into account. its useless. 2..Balance my solutions with the problems. This means I need to take into account my ability to be clever with the ability to be smart. 3..My mistakes arent useless, theyre a reminder of what not to do next time.

4..Never think the futures going to be better, act now. 5..Examine how I can use what already exists to better ends. 6..Accept that change will happen.

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1. I will always be honest with the audience and with myself 2. I will keep an openedmind 3. I will never limit my creativity 4. I will try to be more organised 5. I will learn a thing a day

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Greta Medelyte

1. I will experiment with letterpress. 2. I will try and maintain a balanced work and social life. 3.I will work with people who are positive. 4. I will do more in depth research. 5. I will push myself to achieve more.

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Jenna Morse

1. I will enjoy everything I do, If I dont like something, Ill change it. If I start to refer to my art as work Ill take a step back and adjust something. 2. I will constantly look to innovate and be different. Once you know the rules you can break them. In all walks of life, if I make anything, I want people to think I wish I thought of that! 3. I will always set goals and targets to achieve, whether its long term plans, plans for the year, plans for the week or even plans for the hour.

4. I will try and learn about anything and everything. I really believe that knowledge is power. You can never know enough and it can only help in any walk of life. 5. I will not be afraid to make mistakes, and will not over analyse any situation, even if its some design Im working on. I will just keep doing. 6. I will always be honest, to others and to myself, its in everyones best interest. 7. I will always be organised, a tidy environment means a tidy mind!

8. I will travel as much as I can, and experience different environments and cultures as much as I can. I will just get out there and do it, whatever it may be. 9. I will be efficient with my time and achieve as much as I can in a day, time is something you can never get back. 10. I will treat others how I would want to be treated, Ill always work hard and be kind to people and Im confident good things will always happen.

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Abbas Mushtaq

1. Research and learning a subject makes the whole process so much easier. 2. Action Plans, Help organisation and will allow me to time manage. 3. Simplicity is Key 4. Learn from my mistakes and then develop to produce an effective outcome. 5. Experimentation with a range of different media

6. Share opinions and views with peers expect the same feed back you give out. 7. Constant evaluation of my work, allows me to look back and see which areas i have improved on or what i need to improve further. 8. Failure: Some things can never be made simple.

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Sebastian Needler

1. If you enjoy something, do more of it. 2. Surround yourself with positive, creative people. 3. Grow, embrace change, improve and evolve. 4. Never regret anything, build upon past mistakes. 5. Find people who share your passion and make things together. 6. Seek out the new and be informed. Try new things.

7. Be positive, stay enthusiastic. There are no disadvantages to this. 8. The more you do, the more energy you gain. 9. Follow your interests and never judge others for doing the same. 10. Seize opportunities, they dont arrive very often. 11. Ten is never good enough. 12. Spend your time and money on experiences not things.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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Martin ODea

1. I will try to use good types 2. I will never lie to the audiences, no matter what the clients wants 3. I will get better 4. I will meet my target time/ goals 5. I will challenge myself and my ideas.

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Tanida Panyamang

1.I will be the best at what i do and create designs that are simple and effective. 2.I will Work hard and eventually get where want to be. 3.I will Challenge myself and be challenge by others. 4.I will always be organised and work in a more tidy environment, making clear and process design decisions. A tidy environment means a tidy mind. 5.I will Open my mind to new ideas and my mind will be free. 6.I will Relax and take life as it comes. 7.I will Be myself that all i can ever be. 8.I will always be honest with people and to myself, this will be in the best thing to do for everyone.

9.I will Follow my instincts and trust myself 10.I will Make myself a success, no one else will do it for me 11.I will Focus mainly on what is interesting in my own eye, the only way that will keep me happy 12.I will change the world dont wait for the world to change you. 13.I will treat people how iwant to be treated, i will always work to succeed and make people proud of me and the work that i do 14.I will be more adventurous through my design practice and also with travelling as much as i can to get more inspiration and experience 15.I will not be afraid to make mistakes, I will be confident and explore all skills I can further develop.

16.I will try no to stay within the restrictions i am given, i will be more innovative and experimental 17.I will be more time efficient, working as much as needed to get the job done. Time is Money. 18.I will go out of my way to learn new things and be well educated within the design industry and be independent in my way of learning. 19.I will try and be that person that people have to take a step back and think how did you do that ? 20. I will aspire to work will a small group of designer that think of design as communication instead of a job. Good Design is thinking made visual. 21. I will count to three before making big design decissions to get the best out of my ideas

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Stephanie Pickard

Learn If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Play We dont stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

Work Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt Travel The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine Fail Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Churchill

Try Harder Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because theyre not pretty. - Arthur VanGundy Relax If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. -Herodotus

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Luke Rossiter

1. Space doesnt always need to be filled. 2. I will make more bold steps, you get further if you push and ask what other people dare not. 3. Make fast decisions to allow time to correct mistakes, 4. I will learn everything I can to continue bettering my practice. 5. Have confidence in yourself and your work.

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Michael Scott

1. I will not produce work which needs an explanation 2.I will consider all ethnic groups when designing and not cause offence 3. I will not avoid drawing because I am a Graphic Designer 4. I will search to find the perfect typeface for the job 5. I will be glad I own a coat

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Chris Shuttleworth

I will use my blog as a tool to aid my design practice, explore the work of others and reflect on my own personal development as a graphic design. I will aim to do this through using the blog as an organic tool that I update continuously rather than a static tool that I update all at once or at key points. I will give better critique of my peers work which is more critical, more evaluative, remain positive yet constructive which will help to transfer these skills into critiquing my own work and also receiving and responding to critique I receive.

I will be more experimental in the way I consider how I communicate messaged to my audience, through developing a greater understanding of the world, my audience and purpose will enable me to stray away from visual clique and explore new, innovative methods of visual communication. I will aim to explore more personal project in my own time to develop my skills a designer and explore my own passions and interests within design, this is help inform my professional practice.

I will consider how I can use new and interesting materials to help with the delivery of communication rather than the pre formatted tools, process and outcomes that come from purely digital design.

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Thomas Squire

I will always think positively about my work, and if I can see anything negative about it, instead of dwelling on it, I will work to change it. I will always be searching for inspiration, from everywhere that I can, whether that be from a book, or simply walking down the street. I will always place an importance upon good time management and organisation. I will never give up on a project, even if it is something causing me great stress, I never want to simply stop trying, even if the outcome is not what I planned.

I will always be open and honest with my peers, and I will respect their opinions when they provide me with honest feedback. I will always aim to be daring and innovative when creating designs, so that my work is not simply a recycled idea. I will always have a goal to work towards, whether it is a personal or a professional aim. I will always say yes to new opportunities and experiences, because I cannot develop as a designer and person if I simply stay in one place not taking any chances.

I will do things that I love, and love what I do - and I want to create work that involves crafting and print, as these are my favourite areas of design. I will always try to retain a balance, in every aspect of my life.

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Elizabeth Tyrer

1. I will try and conduct an ethical practice. This means using environmentally friendly processes and materials. 2. I will try to maintain the balance between my work life and personal life, I want to look back and appreciate both. 3. I will always strive to do my best in everything I undertake, whether this is professional design work or my own personal endeavors, this way I can look back and be happy with what I have achieved. I will only carry on producing work as long as I still love it and am happy.

4. I will try and make the most of each minute. Time management is important as I want to maximize the use of my time. 5. I want to know that making mistakes isnt a bad thing and instead of dwelling what Ive done wrong learn from these mistakes so I can change what I do in the future.

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Hannah Watt

1 :Create in new places. By jotting ideas, drawing, taking photographs, I hope to become more open and free to new ideas. My photography used to my focus in life, I need to get it back. 2:Relax more. This down time will allow me have a fresh mind and fresh energy to complete each day, I do not relax enough. 3:Designer a Week. This Blog a new designer each week to the PPP blog, studying their work and understanding how they create the work they do.

4:Each week create a new project idea, I have loads of ideas and not enough time, by concentrating efforts on each idea, one of them is bound to pay off. 5:Knowledge. I hope to gain a new skill or thing each day I am at University, be it how to draw a certain line, how to use software or how to communicate.

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Mike Williams

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