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03/07/2022

Welcome to the second episode of the Creative Minds Project, an online exhibition series that sneak peeks into the notebooks of creative minds. Our guest for this second episode is , who has responded to my open call and introduced all of us to her thoughtful and wholesome world of fine art.
Magdalena Cichon is a German painter with academic accolades and a love affair with Taoism. She studied painting and textile arts and since 2011, she’s been exhibiting and conferencing regularly all over Germany. She’s also been cooking up in the iconic institution of Bauhaus University, where she’s been doing her PhD on the subject of “parallels between intuitive reflection and philosophical Taoism in painting”.

To quote this highly knowledgeable young artist on her work for this project:
“Apart from the traditional way of acting that we usually imagine as a goal-oriented process exerted by a definable subject, Taoist philosophy knows another way — some kind of conscious laissez-faire blurring the lines between an acting subject or agent on the one hand, and spontaneous impulses or external influences on the other. In my paintings, I’m striving for a balance between these two strategies — by making use of the natural traits of the painting material and selecting the outcomes of accidental processes; by playing with depiction and abstraction; by letting the unconscious form the figures without a model or photo present; by investigating human traits and behaviours unknown and strange to me, searching to distill anthropological constants. The drawings in this sketchbook were mostly studies to enhance my knowledge about bodies, their shapes and anatomy; to extend my visual vocabulary. Most are loosely based on photos, but some are freely invented.”
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz.

Elif: And finally, this might be the one that I need to hear personally, but you mentioned being bored at your job. How ...
03/07/2022

Elif: And finally, this might be the one that I need to hear personally, but you mentioned being bored at your job. How do you feel about your career now? Did Jayllustrator save you from your crisis? Or more generally, can a creative career lead to sustainable creative fulfilment? And are you hopeful for yourself?

: When I started being the Jayllustrator, I was terribly bored at my job. Continuously posting, interacting with my viewers and maintaining a consistent creation schedule has definitely helped me. At first, I thought it was just a successful distraction, escapism so to speak. But as time went on I realised that the unrestricted explorations I did while being the Jayllustrator kind of helped inspire and inform the work I was doing in my day job. I got more confident with my style, and use it at my real job sometimes – a slightly toned-down version featuring fewer ge****ls, of course. Unfortunately, now that I've kind of integrated my Jayllustrator alter ego into my main professional self I've kind of entered a bit of a torpor again. *Insert sound of tumbleweeds rolling through my Insta*. 
 
I definitely think a creative career can be creatively fulfilling, and maybe what makes it so is that it motivates us to constantly try out new and exciting stuff. What scares me the most is becoming stagnant in what I do – this is the gripe I have at my current job. Oh, maybe I just had an epiphany. There is a fight going on within myself between the perfectionist who feels that certain aspects of my work can always be improved, and the futurist, who just wants to trash the status quo and explore new frontiers. Ultimately probably balance is key. But I am always hopeful.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz. My dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

Elif: You mentioned your experiments with street art. I'm fascinated. Tell me more!: Hmm, where do I start? I just got i...
03/07/2022

Elif: You mentioned your experiments with street art. I'm fascinated. Tell me more!

: Hmm, where do I start? I just got into it through friends and was really captivated by the urban, gritty and potentially critical and subversive nature of graffiti. Ironically most of my work was (and still is) in sketchbooks only. I have done a few pieces on walls, but these were either commissioned or in areas where graffiti was legal. I did get arrested once, for painting a zebra crossing on to a street.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz, and sponsored by , a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

If you’re interested in helping us fulfil this dream by partnering with us or offering your own platform to spread the word, please get in touch.

Elif: I was surprised to hear that you were holding back your illustrations to save the internet from “another person’s ...
03/07/2022

Elif: I was surprised to hear that you were holding back your illustrations to save the internet from “another person’s opinions“. Do you think us publishing creative work, maybe to a compulsive degree, oversaturates the rest of the world?

: Maybe that was just my initial excuse or a pseudo-critical way to cover up my insecurities. A collaborator of yours and friend of ours has said that it is the responsibility of creatives to share their work with the world. I tend to sometimes fall into a bit of a "speak-when-your're-spoken-to" mentality, and after the initial resistance, I think my Jayllustrator alter ego has helped me quite a bit to counteract this. Yes, there is an over-saturation of opinions going around, but that's just a consequence of the age we're living in and I guess I'll have to (and started to) adjust.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz, and sponsored by , a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

If you’re interested in helping us fulfil this dream by partnering with us or offering your own platform to spread the word, please get in touch.

Elif: What a great answer! It made me thinking... You say that “to be taken seriously as a graphic designer, one needs a...
03/07/2022

Elif: What a great answer! It made me thinking... You say that “to be taken seriously as a graphic designer, one needs awareness of rules and best practices.” This had been my idea of good design too. However over the years in the industry, my taste in good design has changed — not sure for the better or worse. I now feel like having a good awareness of the rules is not a virtue (especially true for some fields than others). It's even a handicap that restrains your creativity. And to be taken seriously as a designer, you have to be free of those rules. So I’m now torn between my modernist self that says “A good designer should be a craftsman” and my postmodernist alter ego that says “A good designer should be an artist and a rule breaker”. What's your conclusion on this?

: I think that a good designer needs to be both. And I would venture to say, that a rule-breaker who doesn't know the rules would be called an amateur. Haha. I usually find specific restraints quite inspiring, because they challenge my creative ways of thinking.
 
So my bottom line would be that a good designer has to be a craftsperson as well as a rule-breaker, and those two personalities need to coexist, emerging with varying intensities according to the nature of the project. Maybe what makes a good designer is the ability to make a reasonable judgement on which personality to unleash on a project-by-project basis.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz, and sponsored by , a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

If you’re interested in helping us fulfil this dream by partnering with us or offering your own platform to spread the word, please get in touch.

: I have been drawing ever since I can remember. I remember being good (and I mean fu***ng unbeatable) at Pictionary — w...
03/07/2022

: I have been drawing ever since I can remember. I remember being good (and I mean fu***ng unbeatable) at Pictionary — which is like visual communication 101. I went through a long phase with graffiti — which stoked my desire to learn how letters and type work. Looking back now, I could say that it was all the experiences with illustration I had throughout life, that led me to graphic design. The deeper I got into the field of traditional graphic design though, the more I started to distance myself from illustration.

Another thing that made graphic design attractive to me, was that I would always be presented with a problem to solve. I do have strong opinions about things, but often feel that these opinions are best kept to myself. To be honest, sometimes I think the world would be a better place if more people thought like that.
Becoming the Jayllustrator for me had cathartic and therapeutic reasons at first. It was a way of distancing myself from work where everything had to be rationalized, aligned to a grid, signed off by a client, scrutinized by a committee. To be honest I did not even want to publish any of it, as I saw it as “just another person's opinion” and I thought there already were enough of those on the internet. When I did (thanks to my wife for not letting it go) it was a bit of a paradigm shift for me. I was sharing personal thoughts and private occurrences, and people seemed to be interested and entertained. I got a kick out of it and that’s what kept me going.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz, and sponsored by , a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

If you’re interested in helping us fulfil this dream by partnering with us or offering your own platform, get in touch.

After graduation, stayed in London and spent most of his days working in branding, and his nights cuddling at home with...
04/04/2022

After graduation, stayed in London and spent most of his days working in branding, and his nights cuddling at home with wifey and their cat. Until one day, the inevitable happened and he suddenly found himself in an existential crisis. A couple of years into his career, the dissatisfaction of his creative path hit Jayllustrator hard. This was forced him into an artistic metamorphosis. Using a playful and expressive illustration style, which is so out of his usual skillset, Jayllustrator started telling entertaining stories about himself and his life with his naughty lines. Reborn from his ashes, he started an Instagram account to share the outcome of this very productive period with the world. And hence, Jayllustrator was born.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz, and sponsored by Muk Design, a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

If you’re interested in helping us fulfil this dream by partnering with us or offering your own platform to spread the word, please get in touch.

The perfect guest for the first episode of the Creative Minds Project is my dear friend, a resilient guinea pig (and a n...
03/04/2022

The perfect guest for the first episode of the Creative Minds Project is my dear friend, a resilient guinea pig (and a new dad 👶🤍) Jakob Ritt, aka. .
Much like his idol Stefan Sagmeister, Jayllustrator is a tall Austrian graphic designer with a dirty mind, a rebellious soul and a great sense of humour. He studied advertising and design in his hometown of Vienna until he moved to London in 2013 to do a masters at Central Saint Martins. Despite his name, Jayllustrator is a great graphic designer with a genuine passion for the fundamentals and the history of design. As a typography nerd who draws letterforms in his spare time, Jayllustrator takes what he does with a serious dedication of a craftsman, even for the most dreadful client projects. He’s both very down to earth and equally open minded to explore new fields, techniques, tools and subject matters. He even dares to bare his butt in the name of art.
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You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own.

If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call.

Creative Minds Project is curated by , and sponsored by , a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.
If you’re interested in helping us fulfil this dream by partnering with us or offering your own platform to spread the word, please get in touch.

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Elif: What a great answer! It made me thinking... You say that “to be taken seriously as a graphic designer, one needs awareness of rules and best practices.” This had been my idea of good design too. However over the years in the industry, my taste in good design has changed — not sure for the better or worse. I now feel like having a good awareness of the rules is not a virtue (especially true for some fields than others). It's even a handicap that restrains your creativity. And to be taken seriously as a designer, you have to be free of those rules. So I’m now torn between my modernist self that says “A good designer should be a craftsman” and my postmodernist alter ego that says “A good designer should be an artist and a rule breaker”. What's your conclusion on this? @Jayllustrator: I think that a good designer needs to be both. And I would venture to say, that a rule-breaker who doesn't know the rules would be called an amateur. Haha. I usually find specific restraints quite inspiring, because they challenge my creative ways of thinking.   So my bottom line would be that a good designer has to be a craftsperson as well as a rule-breaker, and those two personalities need to coexist, emerging with varying intensities according to the nature of the project. Maybe what makes a good designer is the ability to make a reasonable judgement on which personality to unleash on a project-by-project basis. *** You can support the Creative Minds Project and its artists by buying artist prints, or notebooks. Profits from the prints go to the artists. Notebooks are for making your own. If you’re an artist, designer, maker, creator, illustrator, poet and would like to take part in the project, you can respond to our open call. Creative Minds Project is curated by Elif Gürbüz, and sponsored by @Muk__Design, a boutique stationery brand by Elif and her mum, Sevgi. Our dream is to collect enough notebooks to one day turn this into a physical exhibition.

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