- Title
- Developing a designerly way of being, or at least trying
- Creator
- Chand, Ari
- Relation
- The Elephants Leg: Adventures in the Creative Industries p. 89-107
- Relation
- Design Principles & Practices
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-244-4/CGP
- Publisher
- Common Ground
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- VHS died in 1997. I was 8. On June 24th, 1994 the Disney Renaissance was in full swing and a generation-defining animated film came to Australian shores. The Lion King was one of the most popular films, derived from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and made readily available for eager eyes transfixed by an age of moving drawings. The film made it to my small families living room on cassette rented from VIDEO EZY. On Friday nights, we had Movie Night, and each of us enjoyed a small bowl of lollies mix. There wasn’t yet a special features section to select, like on the DVD’s shortly adopted as the burgeoning new technology in the 2000s. I had to hold the button down on the VCR to fast-forward through credits, the Elton John songwriting segment, where I finally found it. There was the nine-minute special features of Artists and Animators drawing a full-grown Lion in the studio. Not just drawing, but also articulating the character features they were constructing based on observation. David Attenborough was a weekly influence on the family, talking about nature and lionesses hunting, and my name translates as Lion in Hebrew. I loved Lions. I couldn’t get over two things: 1. People were paid to draw — because I liked doing that at school. 2. They sounded smart like I felt, talking about drawings as if they meant something, capturing intuitive complex social and cultural information about the world. Since then I’ve attempted to investigate, research, and teach that visualising one’s experience that communicates your life-world is a The Elephant’s Leg profound intellectual pursuit. Something deeply connected to storytelling and cultural production.
- Subject
- illustration; drawing; design practice; Bourdieu
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439893
- Identifier
- uon:41062
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781863352437
- Language
- eng
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