Tom Klinkowstein Lecture

Tom Kilnkowstein is the President of Media A that is 'an innovation, design and consulting group in New York City with clients throughout the world'.

He does talks, lectures, is a professor at various schools and universities, while his work has been exhibited at the AIGA gallery in New York, Paris, Venice, Italy, the list goes on.

When he talked to us at UEL, he gave examples of work, talked about a few companies and also gave a PowerPoint. He explained how we could improve our skills and work ethic.

The advice that Klinkowstein gave us in the lecture was that we should always be prepared: I learnt from his work and what he said was that if you are organized and you make sure you give yourself plenty of time to research your methods and produce more than enough to present then you will accomplish more. If it means writing cards before a presentation so that when you are there you always have a back up incase you get lost in a speech or need a few more pointers. Keep backups of your work because if you loose the one copy you have you will not be in a good position. For example: I pads, Phone, Laptop and USB sticks.

He said 'Try and meet 10 new people every week'

-To gather knowledge

-Recruit others to be your agents

-Connect your nodes via "salons"

This was a strong point because the more people you meet the more doors will open for you in the present or the future. I will keep a book on record as closely as I can, maybe collecting contacts, emails, addresses and numbers so that when I am in a certain country or working in a type of career then I can contact someone who I have met that could help or vice versa.

"Read quality mass circulation publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or equivalent everyday."

This is good to expand and broaden minds and to see whats going on in politics and business, keeping up to date and never falling behind.

He also mentioned that we should write everyday (blog, facebook etc)

For me at the moment this is really valuable to me as I have just started a blog and I am throughly enjoying writing in it and keeping my progress all in one place, Getting feedback from others really helps my education too.

Here are some others:

-Attend conferences and events outside of your comfort zone to understand the language of different professions

-Be honest

-Share the list with a trusted circle of mentors to take advantage of their collective wisdom in order to edit and implement.

-Make a list of initiatives you can start in the next 30 days, to build towards longer- term efforts that wioll have an effect beyond your lifetime.

Reference List:


Klinkowstein, T. (2011). About Media A. Available: http://www.mediaa.com/. Last accessed 27th November 2011.

Rants, Techy stuff. (2007). A Day in the life of smart things: 2030. Available: http://designswarm.com/blog/category/techy-stuff/. Last accessed 20th November 2011.

THOMAS KLINKOWSTEIN Graphic Design . Available: http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/HCLAS/Arts/ART_bio_klinkowstein.cfm. Last accessed 27th November 2011.