Not knowing much about Build prior to the talk it was interesting to see how the studio came about. But before Build Micheal had already been in the industry for years and he began by speaking about what influenced him the most during his early years of design. Apparently the old album covers for the likes of Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath were a big part of his influences but more so the typefaces used and I feel that's still somewhat of a big influence within his current works.
After years of working for others him and his wife set up the studio, Build. He spoke about the struggles of having your own studio and also how they moved around London quite a bit, despite the fact that he isn't a huge fan of the city at all.
The talk as a whole was pretty interesting and I think I took a lot of what he said into account, two things especially. Those being to take interest in other things outside of the world of design and to bring that into your design work, such as how had a interest for album and vinyl covers and this is what inspired some of his work. Also he suggested to observe more whilst outside, often we're on our phones or just don't make a conscious effort to look up and around but especially pieces of architecture can go a miss all because we're not paying attention. The other point he made was in reference to working as a designer in the earlier stages of your career, he advised working for and with others in studios etc. before going off onto doing starting your own studio.
"Make your mistakes on someone else's time."
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