"Whenever people ask me about my future I always think about my career as a designer. I always see my career as the main part of my life, and everything else falls into place around it. That is probably due to the fact that I love what I do, so seeing it as a key part of my life does not fill me with dread as it would some.
I think about my future often, I think about what I want to specialise in, how my work will have developed, if I will be working in an agency or freelance and will I have won an RSA Pebble or a D&AD Pencil. I get excited thinking of the possibilities and how many different things could happen.
I also consider what I used to look forward to a few years ago, how I wanted my work to look back when I first started my education. And I am happy at how far I have come, how I have achieved most of my hopes from back when I was sixteen. I draw decent typography, design functional contemporary layouts, I have received a Behance coin and I am in contact with many local studios. My sixteen year old self wouldn’t have believed how far I have come, so considering my future in another four years time fills me with wonder.
However, looking back on my life and forward into my future can be a bad thing, it can fill me with hopelessness. Why? Well because I can forget to focus on the now, I only achieved the things I have by acting there and then, not by dwelling on dreams and waiting for something to happen. So spending too much time thinking what I want to happen, stops me from acting to make them so. So sometimes living in the moment and putting aside what might need doing next week or even the next day, is the first step in creating the future I want."
- Emma Nicholson (Collide Project Document, 2016)
Here I talk about the times where I reflect on my past and future for the purpose of the Collide project. I consider my past and future often in order to measure my progress and set goals to motivate me forward. In my contextual portfolio I often talk about my progressive skills and interests as I experiment and research. These small reflections will help me pool together years of my creative practise in order to use them in my Collide project.
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