Publications that Include Work by Sam PottsBecoming a Graphic Designer 4 : Steven Heller & Teresa Fernandes The Design Entrepreneur : Steven Heller & Lita Talarico Essentially Odd : 826 National Graphic Style 4 : Steven Heller & Seymour Chwast Sketchbook : Timothy O'Donnell Graphic Design Referenced : Bryony Gomez-Palacio & Armin Vit |
Related ProjectsHopeful Enterprise — 2010 “A More Perfect Union” — 2009 Twitter on Paper — 2009 Planes on the Ground — 2005 |
Hopeful Enterprise
In October of 2009, with a one-way ticket, I moved to a small industrial town in northern Shangdong province, China, to work as a volunteer English teacher at primary/middle school. When the semester ended, I went to Shanghai for a couple weeks and, just before Chinese New Year, to Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. For the next five months, Chengdu became my Chinese hometown of sorts. The trip came to an end in June, 2010, after one successful visa extension, one midnight near-run-in with the Chinese army in the narrow streets of Lhasa, many many bowls of spicy noodles, snow in Shandong and rain in Chengdu and thin air in Shigatse, and countless broken conversations with cab drivers. This experience is unevenly and very partially documented at Hopeful Enterprise. If you ever get a chance to go to China, and especially Tibet, by all means: go.