I think that's going,
Yeah, right, okay, sweet.
I'll sit you down and just get you in focus.
Make sure you look here and don't frown.
Talk into this, as if you are someone
and you're just having a conversation about
what you think about the college.
When you're bored just come next door.
Oh!
I pressume I need to introduce myself?
Hi, My name's Joe Sanchez,
and i've just graduated from third year in Kingston.
One of the best things I think about the
course at Kingston is the strength
and the importance placed on ideas.
After coming here you can see the difference
between work that is executed with an idea
and work that is executed for
the sake of execution.
The first year experience was amazing
and totally different to any first year experience
that i've heard of from any friends who did
any academic degree anywhere.
A lot of the briefs we had in first
year were crazy.
I decided to start my own hotel
was an exercise, so I set up a hotel in my
student house and from the profits
I could visit other hotels,
but it was all an exercise, in branding,
and identity and actually doing stuff and
that's what Kingston is for I think, doing.
The most surprising thing I have done
since at Kingston was getting to sit in a
£30,000,000 helicopter with my friends
during a documentary shoot.
Being able to adapt your process,
to adapt your skill set is what actually
makes you a strong candidate.
You can go down to photography if
you need to take some photographs,
you can go up to fashion if you need
to talk to somebody about sewing.
There's a real push for sort of
interdisciplinary designs, the sort of idea
that even though I was into my products
I chose graphic design but I can
choose to work in the 3D workshop or
you kow incoporate 3D objects into
my graphic design work.
So I think when I came here,
I kind of had it in my mind, a kind of set way
of this is how I should work,
but then the range of briefs teach you to
kind of look at every possible aspect
not just kind of be narrow minded
with what you are good at
or at what you think you are good at.
My favourite thing about being at kingston
would probably have to be the
studio atmosphere that we've got here.
Which has built up and built up since
first year.
So the studio isn't some sort of
stagnant space with desks
that doesn't move and doesn't change
but actually, everyone sort of learns
and experiments and grows
in this ever changing space.
So they encourage people to come in
everyday and the tutors will be in
pretty much everyday, some cases everyday
so they are very much full time staff.
Each student is thought about
on their own so you get to know the tutors
quite well and they get to know you quite well
and they get to know your way of working
and how you work best and who
you work best with.
Research is something that I think
Kingston prides itself on and we have
to present that at the end of each year.
This doesn't mean, it doesnt have to be reading,
it just doesn't have to be essays and essays
of photocopies you've printed off.
all it has to be is you trying to test things
and get real truths from people and
places, so maybe that it's that you've
gone out and interviewed people,
maybe that it's you've gone online,
maybe it's that you've just set up a camera
and tripod somehwere and photographed
people for as long as you'd like.
Not only has my work changed
since coming to Kingston
my entire personality, my entire
mindset has completely changed
and definately for the best.
I'm a much smarter person now
and I look at the world in a different way.
We are graphic designers, we're film makers
we're drawers, we're sculpters,
we sculpt things, we eat things
we chew them up, I think we are not
just graphic designers and that's
one thing that drew me to the course.
Yeah, its been great.