This weeks guest lecture was from the london design group Territory studios. This lecture was presented to us by David Sheldon Hicks one of the guys from the multi disciplinary studio that ranges from print to film animation.
Territory studios aim it to create new worlds in graphic design for all that they specialise in. Such as creating fictional interfaces for films such as ex machina, marvel films.
One thing that does inspire me about Territory studios is how quick they can work. For example, they would take a day to create one interface for a film. They would do the idea generation, sampling the idea and the work within the morning, then in the afternoon they would then create the interface within the afternoon, but creating the interface wouldn't alway be as simple, because like all designers they find problems, and designers have to over come them problems for there work to get to its full potential and they won't leave it until if was finished on that same day. Most of they work on film would be carried out on the film set of the movie, so they can get it straight to them and test it out there and then, this would help them get the work done faster as they would be able to see the problems straight away.
Like most guest lectures they only talk about there work, but Territory studios didn't, they also gave advice on research and reading the given brief. They said when doing research that we should rely on the internet as much, but that we should range our research areas by looking into books, magazine ETC. The reason they do this is so they don't restrict there the design skills and capabilities, along with gaining a bigger area of background research. For the brief they told us about an example where they created this awesome piece of design for a film, but when they looked back over the brief to make sure they had covered everything they had been asked for, they soon realised that they hadn't even crossed one thing off the brief. They said that we should restrict our self with they style we want to take on when completing a brief but make sure we keep checking we are doing as the brief asked.
