Sam Winston completed a BTEC ND Graphic Design in 1998 at the Plymouth College of Art, and returned last year in December, 2012 to show current BA/FD Graphic Design students and staff just how far he's come.
Winston's prolific career features work for Wallpaper magazine and the New York Times, which is incredible for any designer or artist to be able to say they have acheived. During his talk, he mentioned about his most talked about work. Inspiring the audience into taking their work that little bit further and push themselves to see what they could acheive.
A truly inspiring and motivational individual. The students and staff that were able to attend the event were talking about it for weeks, it isn't often that an opportunity to meet someone so talented comes up, it's always refreshing when they share the same passion.
Sam himself has said about giving talks and lectures, 'I have been teaching for close to 10 years and as time goes by I am realising what I can and cannot do. I certainly can’t change people – I can’t give people things they have never had and I can’t make ‘things better’. My ambitions of help, are lost in a sea of complexity way beyond my control. I often find teaching endeavours blossoming into both beautiful and stupid fruits. One of the more ironic harvests of this pursuit is that it’s changed me far more than it’s changed anyone else.'
You can see more of his work by visiting his website by clicking here or typing http://www.samwinston.com/ into your search bar.
Photography by Tatsu Ishikawa
Winston's prolific career features work for Wallpaper magazine and the New York Times, which is incredible for any designer or artist to be able to say they have acheived. During his talk, he mentioned about his most talked about work. Inspiring the audience into taking their work that little bit further and push themselves to see what they could acheive.
A truly inspiring and motivational individual. The students and staff that were able to attend the event were talking about it for weeks, it isn't often that an opportunity to meet someone so talented comes up, it's always refreshing when they share the same passion.
Sam himself has said about giving talks and lectures, 'I have been teaching for close to 10 years and as time goes by I am realising what I can and cannot do. I certainly can’t change people – I can’t give people things they have never had and I can’t make ‘things better’. My ambitions of help, are lost in a sea of complexity way beyond my control. I often find teaching endeavours blossoming into both beautiful and stupid fruits. One of the more ironic harvests of this pursuit is that it’s changed me far more than it’s changed anyone else.'
You can see more of his work by visiting his website by clicking here or typing http://www.samwinston.com/ into your search bar.
Photography by Tatsu Ishikawa
