Good For Grasshopper

A great little store slated to open up in the Knox/Henderson area in December of this year has offered their place for the workshops we’re hoping to have.

More details to come, but this is a rather exciting development as we launch Good for Grasshopper. Suggestions or requests for workshops are always welcome and encouraged.

This is Good For Grasshopper. Work in progress. The site, this page and the excitement is up.

Students have a lot of questions. No doubt. And it’s expected that they should – however, students seem to retain a lot of the advice / info / lessons when delivered by someone with the “working in the real world / professional” title.

Through the last year and a half, as I taught 2 days a week and worked in studio 3 days a week, I heard the same questions over and over – almost to a point where I was reciting the same answers. Upon talking to some of my colleagues – who haven’t taught before and those that did – we tended to share a lot of the same opinions and perspectives – enough to formulate pages and pages of FAQ’s for students.

As I’ve looked at portfolios in the past few years (and even more so in the last year alone) – I’ve found that its the students that take outside initiatives that have and will become the best additions to the design community. It’s the students that ask questions, who use all the resources available to them and who reach farther than their schools and even cities that impress and inspire me.

Leading into Good For Grasshopper. I want GFG to be an organization aimed at being a student’s resource closer to home. I want GFG to be 80% resource website and 20% workshops led by working professionals: book binding, portfolio prep, writing, etc. Possibly gallery shows to exhibit their work. I’ve had this idea for a while and have just enough — not all — of the details mapped out.

Thanks to Gabriel Jackson, Kevin Thomas, Meta Newhouse, John Custer, Eric Ligon, Erin Hanley and Barrett Fry for their input and help with the naming.