I'm Lisa I studied design for graphic communication at LCC and I am a product
designer and come from a book design background and have currently finished
the first season of my podcast 'Not Applicable'. I'm quite interested to
people and what drives them and how they move through, be it an app, a book, a platform, a
space, an environment and what they experience. I love doing research on that
and I kind of try and find different outlets or different formats
to to work on these, like a podcast, a book or an app. I really wanted to see
more of the world and meet people from other countries and meet people that
think a bit differently from me and London's got a very good design scene
and a good network. My creative life is always based around people and
what people tell me and like talking to people and hearing different stories I
just find the human species quite interesting. I think design for graphic
communication, I thought when I started the course would be a graphic design
course but it was not really. We had some people teaching from Us Creates
and one tutor from Ideal and it was a lot to do with human centered design; going out
and speaking to people and like finding real world problems and designing
solutions. A lot of it was actually talking to strangers, so I think that is
connected with the podcast because it did prep me for just approaching
people and talking to them and finding out what their stories are. I myself got
really into podcasts I think two years ago. I think it's just a nice way to to
create empathy and it's a more personal way to tell a story because if
you if you read a book you don't have the narrator, you're the narrator but
when you have a podcast you make the personal connection with someone
that's not actually there and I find that quite interesting and it's a very new
medium and I thought I want to explore that and what's possible. The podcast is
called 'Not Applicable' and it was supposed to be a podcast that highlights
the people that create diversity in the creative industries here in London, or
at least work in the field. Well it ended up being a group of really amazing
women and some of them were from underrepresented groups or like ethnic
minorities. I knew I wanted to talk to people that were not the mainstream
people that work in the creative industry and I wanted to speak to people
that have a very unique life path or had a very unique way into the
industry. For example Nina Salomons who I interviewed for the very first
episode she works in virtual reality and she
provides workshops for underrepresented groups to get into the industry and she
comes from a gaming background. I think for me it's always when I
know I'm working on a specific topic it's like you know planting a seed in
your head and then all of a sudden your horizon expands and you see all
these things and you're like oh this person this could relate to what I'm
doing. I think what's really interesting I was talking to a friend of mine the other
day, she lives in Austria and I told her
about some plans that I had with a friend for a collaboration and a project
and she was like I can't believe in London everyone seems to be so up for
doing something I like doing stuff and getting stuff started and that's
something that I really love about the community here and especially the
creative community here. I can meet someone, you chat for like 10 minutes
and then you're like, hey why don't we just work on a project together. I mean
hopefully I would like people that listen to the podcast to be inspired by
it and see that there is no one way into the industry. You can come from a
variety of backgrounds and it's always possible