What is industrial experience?
- Studio visits
- Competitions
- Live briefs
- Freelance work
- Shadowing someone
- Portfolio reviews
- Setting up a business
- Sending a print job
- Internships
- Networking
What is professional research?
- Looking at websites of studios
- Networking
- Studio talks/visting professionals
- Events; print festivals etc
- Graphic design exhibitions
- Magazines
- Websites
- Library
- Visits to professional printers
- College lectures
- How others promote themselves
- Look at competitors using SWOT analysis
Industrial experience concerns//problems...
- Am I good enough?
- Where do you start?
- What if nobody wants me?
- Affordability (travel etc)
- Tone of voice
- A lot of competition//competitors
Opportunities...
- Enter live//competition briefs
- Work out areas of interest
- Look at studios that are afforable to get to
- Revisit personal design context blog
- Look at things that are avoidable
Professional research concerns//problems...
- Where do you look?
- How do you network?
- Who do you network with?
- Having the time to look effectively
- Am I looking at the right thing?
Opportunities...
- There's lots to look at
- Create a social presence online
- Look back at what you've been looking at already in design context to compile a list
- Look for new studios
- Find work by studios//professionals
- Find exhibitions to possibly attend
10 things you gain from doing professional research?
- Gives you a better idea/understanding of what you want to do
- Makes you aware of what is going on in the industry
- Inspires your own practice
- You find out the expectations of the industry
- You gain industrial contacts through networking
- You can search for companies you'd like to work with
- You can find out about other areas of the industry for example, photography
- It makes you more aware of life after university
- Visiting exhibitions makes you more culturally aware
- It encourages you to plan your future
10 things you gain from doing studio visits?
- Professional contacts and networking
- An insight into companies
- An insight into the design practice and whether or not it's suited to you
- A realistic view of the working practice and studio environment
- Potential to gain an industrial placement
- Potential to gain portfolio reviews/opinions on your work and design practice
- Samples of studio work
- Potential to interview designers and to find out more about their working day/life
- A chance to visit new places; location as well as the studio and whether it would be suited to your lifestyle and work practice post graduation.
- Encouragement to plan your future.
10 things you would put in a creative CV?
- Work experience
- Ambitions
- Contact details
- Skill set
- Personal interests
- About me
- Reflect your design approach (branding and self promotion)
- What you could offer the specific studio
- References/testimonials
- Work ability
- Qualifications
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