I’m going to be featured as a guest on a podcast in the coming weeks called “The Archemist Podcast.” It’s the product of a young graduate of Architecture and aspiring writer Kimberley Hui who studied Architecture a couple of years below me at Monash University. In collaboration with another young Archi Grad Jina He, they will be interviewing various people in and around the field of Architecture to figure out if this is what they wanted. As someone who rode the path of becoming an Architect only to jump off halfway, I fall right into their criteria. I graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2015 but did not continue to do the Masters degree which is required if you ever want to assume the title of Architect. I ultimately fell out of love with Architecture during my final year when I fell into love with Marketing. In our third year we were given the chance to do breadth subjects and that’s when I chose to flirt with marketing, I should’ve known I’d eventually give into it completely. But, onto the task at hand, writing a bio… which feels like some kind of perverted self-gratification in public. Until I first had to write one a few years ago I had no idea that most of the time it’s the people themselves that write them. For some it must come very easy, to talk up your accomplishments and become your own cheer squad. But for people like me, this kind of self flattery is mortifying. How on earth do you condense your life into an easily digestible paragraph or two? What do I leave out? Will I go too far? And, how do I make writing in the 3rd person feel less dirty? Here’s my game plan.
That should be easy enough right…? Well here goes nothing.
Dan Lawson is a Melbourne based Marketer and Business Owner. He started his first business at 18 and has spent the last 6 years running Prop & Pose, which has worked with clients such as Tennis Australia, the Victorian Government, and Grimshaw Architects. He is currently the Director of PinchPoint and is working towards building a marketing agency. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Monash University in 2015 and completed a Masters Degree in Marketing in 2019. In 2014 he was the SONA Rep for Monash and sat on the Victorian Chapter Council of the Australian Institute of Architects as a representative for the students. As the SONA Rep he was also responsible for delivering the first ArchiBall in decades in 2014 and 2015. He still maintains an appreciation for Architecture and considers his study of it responsible for his dedicated but sometimes unhealthy work ethic.
Dan Lawson
Eh. It’ll do.