the Ny-lon project is a collaborative project between University of the Arts
London and the Shawn Carter foundation to enable students to have a creative
and cultural experience in London and in New York. we want people to learn new
skills come up with new ideas. one of the greatest things are now our office
students is the opportunity to kind of get out of their comfort zone and
explore a new church or a new part of the world that they wouldn't have
otherwise had the opportunity to. for the kids in New York most of them haven't
had the opportunity to travel across the Atlantic which is one of the key
elements that Ny-lon provides. it's really cool to be in London I love to travel
and this is my first time out of the United States so the fact that I get to
go to a place that I've always wanted to go to and to be able to work on a really
cool project is really awesome. I grew up and currently still live in
bedford-stuyvesant Brooklyn New York. I was extremely excited to be selected for
the nylon project and it's something completely different from what I am
currently studying at school so having the opportunity to study something
completely different is really awesome. I was born in Poland I came over here
with my family at the age of seven. I grew up in East London is very like
culturally and ethnically diverse no I love that about it.
I live in Ronan Essex with my mom and I studied graphic design at UAL. I love to
meet new people so can create collaborate like take risks I don't want
to think what if I just want to do it.
anything with any of this is figuring out conceptually what the things should
be but I think getting a pen and paper sketching out figuring this is kind of
what its gonna look like. but you guys are doing it. Taking ownership of it.
so it's connecting people to ny-lon.
Vintage is definitely in. it's really cool just to see everyone
interact. most of us from New York our science background our like business
base and they're all pretty creative. I don't really think that our opinions
would be as relevant just because we don't have experience in it but it's
good to see some of our like opinions and some of our ideas be brought to life.
First thing is you all going to go out and explore London get a little bit of creative inspiration.
today is the third day at the nylon 2018 exchange program and we're
currently in Brick Lane getting respondents and research for the Ford
campaign that we're working on.
I was in the branding group and we had a sandwich
board and on the sandwich board we had two questions the first question was
what was your favorite first experience and the second board said what is your
key more value so we decided on the shoulders because this young trendy and
then you put both corporate people and then like the younger people as well.
yes so spent the day out in Shoreditch get into market research based on our
research we grain some graphic visuals about general public's first
times. so my role is to oversee that everything with the website is going
well and just to really display like who is ny-lon like who are we and what we
represent as a brand it's just about finishing it at a point on Friday that we can
pick back up on Monday when we're in New York
well done really good week. This is halfway through the project so next week we
go to New York, we go execute and smash it up.
The visas have not come yet. it is now Friday. I'm supposed to be catching a flight tomorrow morning
which obviously now won't be happening but there is still hope.
as I'm executive director of the Sean Carter foundation, we wanted to make sure that
we provided this opportunity for young people who are creative, who are talented,
who have goals, but may not have the resources to connect in this powerful
way and I also have to thank the Ford Motor Company. Obviously you guys have
been working on a brief for them I'm really excited about what's gonna happen
this week. See you sometime midweek and definitely back here on Friday.
so Vault 49 is a world-class design agency. we're located in the heart of
Chelsea New York we've been working with nylon for about three years now and it
was just a great opportunity to get involved with projects that allow
students an opportunity to get a sense of what it is to work within a design studio.
So welcome guys this is Vault 49. Vault 49 has been around for 15
years - last year was our 15 year anniversary. I was able to see like what
a creative workplace looks like and I felt like that was really fun. I really
like it I feel like it's very different and creative but they're kind of like a
family but they're still getting like what they had to be done. We came to Vault 49
for 9:00 this morning and they told us that we had to present to one of the
members of vault 49. We did a quick presentation to the head of
strategy to turn our ideas and she was a pretty impressed with them but she then gave
us a few tips and stuff like that which then sort of sparked a lot of
questioning.
Everything got a bit much and everyone's
very confused.
everything pretty much has to be done by Thursday morning and it's like Tuesday
afternoon now so we've only got tomorrow and then our presentation on Friday so it's
just a bit nerve-racking getting all of these components back together. so it's
been very dramatic. Literally even yesterday. I still didn't have my VISA.
I literally collected it yesterday. Today I'm here in New York.
We kind of came in more focused and we know exactly what we're working with
now as opposed to yesterday was just a bunch of different ideas. so we did a
little exercise where we write down little scenarios of our own firsts
and we're planning on using the handwriting in the actual process just kind of
seeing who has the handwriting for it.
okay so today is the day before presentation and unfortunately earlier
this morning there was a steam pipe explosion on 21st and 5th. they cut off
the street that Vault 49 is on. all the elevators in the area were shut down.
that actually got us worried because there was a potential the NYPD or the fire department
that could have actually shot off the power on a few streets and then that
would like halt us because we needed the power the spring printing to expose our
screens but thank God that didn't happen. Today we've been doing the screen
printing for the tote bags we started by exposing the screens
making the dyes we had to use a really unique color palette and then also
creating the screen prints.
actually seeing the tote bags being screen
printed and seeing how they come out really it brings more excitement to the
project. I am super excited for tomorrow.
everything we dreamed of like everyone was so happy because they came up
exactly like our mock up.
everyone's had a chance to do some screen printing and yeah it's been a fun
experience as well. We made a lot of progress today I'm very proud of us.
as long as you have a desire to be all that you can be, you can make it happen. So after going
off to East London reviewing the brief and just meeting up as a group we all
decided on hashtag my first represent our brand campaign. we thought that
merchandise was essential to effectively spread in our campaign so we actually
printed this tote bag using screen printing
we have an Instagram page check us out @wearenylon
kind of a weird feeling that it's over now. being in this building, being in New York yeah
it's crazy but exciting for the future. I think we're all just pretty sad
cuz you know it's kind of hard for us to see the London kids again.
But we created a bond that I think we can pretty much keep up with over time. I feel like
this was just the beginning for them now now I feel that they can see that they
can go anywhere. A project like this is once-in-a-lifetime thing to do
especially as a student at young age I think it really benefitted me and I I
really thank them for giving me the opportunity to do this. It's definitely
opened my eyes as to what I want to do after and it's just giving me so much
more experience, confidence and knowledge. this opportunity has made me step out of
my comfort zone it has made me you know think outside the box and this
experience was literally life-changing. not everyone has the opportunity to fly
across the world to London and not only seeing new places but feet around an
exciting environment where you're just throwing out ideas and you can make
something great out of it and that's exactly what this experience
was