1) Someone who feels physical discomfort upon seeing an incomplete spreadsheet.
2) Creative thinking is a must.
3) It’ll also help if you have a laptop.
Okay, so there’s a few bits missing to make it the ‘perfect’ job description but these sentences made me smile and I want to work for the person who wrote them.
I had a wonderful weekend at our open studio as part of Sherwood Arts Week. We had 200 people through our gates and we met such lovely people. I’d like to thank everyone who came and showed their support. I am looking forward to us hopefully having more events in the future.
As part of the exhibition I had a computer set up with excel open so people could make their own spreadsheet art.
It was a very straight forward idea. I just wanted to give people the opportunity to use a piece of office software for a different function than it would usually be associated with. Here is what was created:
When looking up spreadsheet art I found that the Google docs team had made a collaborative spreadsheet to demonstrate how you can use Google docs. Brilliant idea!
One article from a site called suite 101 said ‘Watching the art emerge from a source usually associated with business is entertaining and inspiring.’
I have just had my second attempt at spreadsheet art and I have realised that I like the idea of giving myself rules. This came as no surprise! This one I had to use all of the colours and I could only use them in certain orders. I am in the middle of creating one called ‘All borders’ where I have to used only borders to create a pattern. It is harder and less satisfying but I shall persevere.
I have so much to do and make for ‘Finding Time’ which is very ironic. I am currently making a 4 week action plan. It reminds me of how much I used to thrive on making the revision timetable (colour coding and all), always at the expense of the revision. You would have thought I’d learnt.
My first attempt at spreadsheet art. I want to make abstract images using excel after realising that within my job role, choosing the colours is my favourite bit of building a spreadsheet.
