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Experimentation and exploration is the secret ingredient to innovative design. Many successful designers and studios are practicing this idea to refresh their process and stay passionate. This talk will explore Myron’s personal beliefs on creative process. The importance as a working designer to: • Maintain a personal practice without limitations be it art, tutorials or tests • Include an experimental component into your creative process. • To be ok with taking risks and making something ugly to reach innovation • Encourage designers to fail and salvage beauty from mistakes

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[email protected]@notsosimpleton (twitter / instagram)

Myron CampbellMake Something Ugly: An Experimental Creative Process

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SENIOR INSTRUCTOR - VFS DIGITAL DESIGNART DIRECTOR / MEDIA ARTIST / ANIMATOR / ILLUSTRATOR / EDUCATOR

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AUTOMATIC DRAWING

Automatic DrawingJean Arp

Automatic DrawingAndre Masson

(1917-18) (inscribed 1916). Ink and pencil on paper, (1924). Ink on paper,

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EQUISITE CORPSE

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Exquisite Corpse ExerciseFebruary 2013

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RE:ENTRYNovember 2002

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RE:ENTRYNovember 2002

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TRAILER PARK BOYS - SEASON 2 WEBSITEFlash Animation - 2002

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CBC - STREET CENTS BUMPER - BUYER’S GUIDEFlash Animation - 2004

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Work

"Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"The things which hurt, instruct."

- Henry Ford

- Winston Churchill

- Benjamin Franklin

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

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DOES THI

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FLORIAN SCHMITT

ERIK NATZKE

YOHAN GINGRAS

YUGO NAKAMURA

DAITO MANABE

KYLE MCDONALD

CHRIS MILK

VINCENT MORISSET

DAVID CLARK

GRANT SKINNER

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STEFAN SAGMEISTER

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JOSH DAVIS

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JAMES PATERSON

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JARED TARBELL

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GIANT ANT

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GIANT ANT

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WORLD FAMOUS

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ASSIGNMENT #46 - Blow Something UpChristopher Harrell

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ASSIGNMENT #17 - A nature documentary (real or imagined).Christopher Harrell

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TANGIBLE INTERACTIONVancouver, BC CANADA

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TANGIBLE INTERACTIONVancouver, BC CANADA

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TANGIBLE INTERACTIONVancouver, BC CANADA

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LYNDA BARRY

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a jellyfish city living inside a giant jellyfish

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DRAW BY NIGHT2009-present

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DRAW BY NIGHT - COLOGNE, GERMANY2012-present

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POSSIBLETHOUGHT2001

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Books by Keri Smith

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own

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to do the project that you want to do.

}:$$$:{Don't wait for someone to pay you

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@notsosimpletonnotsosimpleton.com

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