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Free stuff for stay at home creatives
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To help you make the most of your time at home, we’ve put together a bunch of great (and free!) resources to ensure you keep your sanity, and also emerge from your home a month (or more) from now smarter and more inspired than ever before.
WATCH
There’s so many free talks online that we couldn’t even include all of them. Curate your own conference by listening to any of these brilliant speakers and the gems of wisdom they have to impart.
1) Nicer Tuesdays
2) TED Talks
4) Glug
5) Creatives at Home
6) Awwwards
7)
The Do Lectures
Prefer to watch something with a little more pizazz? Catch a classic design documentary or some indie flicks, generously shared for free during this period by their creators.
Watch Gary Hustwit’s Design Documentaries
Stream some films, courtesy of indie film house Cinema Aki
Get spirited away with a 4-Part Hayao Miyazaki documentary
Prefer to watch something with a little more pizazz? Catch a classic design documentary or some indie flicks, generously shared for free during this period by their creators.
Watch Gary Hustwit’s Design Documentaries
Stream some films, courtesy of indie film house Cinema Aki
Get spirited away with a 4-Part Hayao Miyazaki documentary
READ
1) Lecture in Progress
2) DesignBetter Books
3) The Shape of Design
4) Critical Writing
5) Branding
For all of you iNTeleKtuaLs, here are our favourite online publications and books that will make you feel a little wiser and older.
1) Lecture in Progress
2) DesignBetter Books
3) The Shape of Design
4) Critical Writing
5) Branding
7) design observer
If you’re trying to take a break from design, get some advice and learn more about being human from the folks over at The school of Life
If you’re trying to take a break from design, get some advice and learn more about being human from the folks over at The school of Life
LISTEN
1) Check out new musicians
2) Attend a live gig
3) Be entertained by crazy interviews 4) Get lost in mesmerising artist shows 5) See what everyone’s listening to
Find yourself looping the same few tracks day after day? Afraid your Year in Spotify 2020 will show you listened to 200 hours of Brockhampton or Ariana Grande?
1) Check out new musicians
2) Attend a live gig
3) Be entertained by crazy interviews 4) Get lost in mesmerising artist shows 5) See what everyone’s listening to
DO
1) Visit a creative studio
2) Design some snazzy posters
3) Join a Quarantine Art Club
4) Use your skills to lend a hand
5) Create or support fonts in progress
6) Make some zines
7) Tour a museum
8) Visit an aquarium
9) Watch some opera at night
10) Experience an interactive comic
11) Let a robot teach you copywriting 12) Finally figure out how to understand art
Itchy hands and an idle mind are usually a recipe for disaster. Put them to good use by tackling any of these fun activities on your time off, so you don’t end up mindlessly scrolling Instagram or Reddit for 4 hours straight.
1) Visit a creative studio
2) Design some snazzy posters
3) Join a Quarantine Art Club
4) Use your skills to lend a hand
5) Create or support fonts in progress
6) Make some zines
7) Tour a museum
8) Visit an aquarium
9) Watch some opera at night
10) Experience an interactive comic
11) Let a robot teach you copywriting 12) Finally figure out how to understand art
