Studio Decode

Studio Decode put the best part of design school up front. On 27 June, AOD welcomed future creatives into a full day of hands-on workshops spanning fashion, visual communication, motion graphics and interiors. With support from Atlas, participants got to experiment in creative labs, try techniques like stop motion and meet people who were just as curious about making things as they were.

Stop motion was a great example of how quickly a simple experiment can pull you in. Move something a little, take another frame and suddenly you’re thinking about pace, character and what happens next. That same curiosity could lead somewhere completely different in another studio, where the starting point might be an image, a garment or a space.

The workshops made room for the part of design that happens between a first idea and a finished piece. You try something, see what it does and decide what to change. Seeing how other people tackle the same exercise can send you back to your own work with an idea you hadn’t considered.

Spending the day moving between disciplines gave participants a feel for how varied studio life can be. It was a day for trying something unfamiliar and finding out what you wanted to make next.