<aside> 💡 a journey to Povstalec (doing more stuff which isn’t your priority, come on) and work for the KK

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I became quite an active student at VŠKK. I don’t do that often, I will usually engage in something only when no one else is interested. I’m very skilled in avoiding people, yes. Thanks to my classmate, I found out that the school magazine is looking for a designer. Nobody seemed to be really interested (which caught my attention tbh). I also really enjoyed books, magazines and working with this kind of stuff seemed enjoyable as well. The editor in chief was the sweetest girl and we got along pretty well, so I started working on the first issue.

The process went terribly, one error after another.

I wasn’t that familiar with InDesign, but nothing I couldn’t improvise. But of course, I got a lot of help from my teachers — and I am most grateful that they agree to put up with me because it wasn’t an easy journey. As a result, though, I learned to work in InDesign a year before it was mandatory for our classes and man, it helped a lot.

One of my teachers was a little more sceptical: “Oh, that’s great! But just help them with this one issue and then drop it, okay?” I’m don’t tell me what to do person, but I kind of know why he told me that. I’ve done four issues so far and our editorial office isn’t working the way we wish it would. It’s run entirely by students in their free time, we lack people and time. I think we are all learning in the process, so it can’t be perfect. But we are trying to improve. Babysteps. One might say we are dragging a dead weight, but I see the potential. Even if no one cares about our stupid little magazine yet.

Thanks to my experience with the school magazine, I was brave enough to go to an interview with “Kreativní Kancl”(KK), when they were looking for some design students who could help them with projects. I always thought the KK was a big studio with lots of students involved, but to my surprise, I was the only student designer there. Besides me, there were precisely 4 students. Now there are more of us, but when I started my part-time a while ago, it was really only a small circle of people, trying to get through. And that’s where I learned the most things — don’t get me wrong, our classes are great, but it’s mostly one big project after another, but in KK, there are always hundreds of smaller unique projects thrown at me. And this is essentially what i love most about graphic design.