Design Manifesto

This is a project on my Context of Practice course at Plymouth College of Art.    The brief says:

"You are asked to identify and define your own personal manifesto as a designer/maker and to articulate this through a poster/advert and a short interactive digital presentation. 

The project is intended to explore and externalise who you are as a designer/maker. what methods and principles you employ within your work, and most importantly what issues concern you within the context of your own practice."

So here goes on a manifesto

Who I am 

• I'm not JUST a designer/maker.  I think my imagination, my ability to come up with novel ideas, is my strongest asset.  I'm an innovator/designer/maker!
• I have an unusual combination of creative and engineering skills.  This sometimes steers my choice of projects.  It also means that I put a lot of thought into the way I make things.
• I want to work in all materials.  I don't want to specialise
• I like taking on challenging projects, preferably large scale ones

Issues

• I want my work to amuse and intrigue everyone, not just people that already have an interest in art.
• Although I'm doing a course in contemporary craft, I want to make art

Here's my first draft of a poster/advert:

My feeling is that the poster/advert needs to be simple so I've just focused on 2 messages - the text one saying I'm an innovator and the visual one, that I combine art and engineering.  

Do you think it works?

Here's an April 2015 article by  Harriet Baker called "10 game-changing art manifestos" on the Royal Academy website.  It ends with a Grayson Perry contribution, or rather his contribution on behalf of "Red Alan", a ceramic sculpture of Alan Measles, his teddy bear: