Visiting Lecturer & Notes - Claire Norcross

Visiting Lecturer & Notes

Claire Norcross

Product Lighting Designer - Founder of Luminosity - https://www.clairenorcross.co.uk/

-          Designs and made handcrafted objects.

-          Taught at UCLan & now at MMU on the Craft & 3D Design courses.

-          Taken part in artisan residences, UK & Australia.

-          Exhibited in the UK and abroad in trade fairs and exhibitions.

-          Taken part in educational projects.

-          Curated and project managed exhibitions.

-          Mentored graduate makers.

-          Worked as a commercial designer, for High street store

-          Inspiration + Technique = Design

-          With knowing you have a real strength in your core process, your studies and projects will be really successful.

-          APERTURE LIGHT – 2005 HABITAT

-          Think carefully on how you present yourselves, in all perspectives. Applying appropriate work for jobs, to exhibit and for showcasing.

-          Be smart if working for a company, as they could consider that work their IP.

-          Research Period > Design Experiment > Finalisation – Founded around the furniture season.

-          Learnt newer technologies, in order to rapid prototype ideas. CAD

-          Observed using older traditions, in order to keep designs development easier to manage,

-          Researched target audience, and competitors. In order to develop design ideas.

-          Affinity towards natural form.

-          Showed how some information used from the past, doesn’t have much impact on common markets. Possibly due to the growth of technology, and people wishing to approve innovation over old crafting methods.

-          Plumen – Bulb Design Company

-          Don’t just use search engines for inspiration. Look into older methods or natural experiences in order to facilitate new ideas.

-          Ideas evolve from continuous research.

-          Newer designs can often form from the input of others.

-          Informed to be really focused, but open to experimentation in order to evolve new possibilities.