- Any contact with Design Agencies and Graphic Designers such as advise on portfolio and specific live briefs.
- A day's work experience up to a few weeks secondment with an agency, at a printers or Packaging Company for example.
- Working on a live brief
- Gaining an independent understanding and knowledge of real life graphic design outside of college
- Meeting and networking with Professionals and clients ar exhibitions and galleries
2. What can you learn from industrial experience?
- Identify which areas of Graphic Design interest me
- Identify Agencies and Designers within 30 miles of Huddersfield as potential employers/collaborators in the future
- Working as part of a team of designers on a live brief.
- Coordinating live projects and meeting real deadlines
- Learn about the relationships which exists between professionals, printers and clients.
3. What form/format could industrial experience take?
- An hour spent discussing your portfolio with a Professional
- A day in a Design studio
- A live brief
- A week in a Design Studio or with Graphic Designers
- Studio visits
4. What areas of industry are you interested in?
- Information graphics
- Digital design for screen
- Web design
- Branding and identity
- Museum/public space signage and wayfaring
- Concept development
5. What are your concerns about industrial experience?
- Will age be a barrier?
- Could be difficult to spend more than a couple of days away from home of Studios are based more than 30 miles away.
- How to make contact with Agencies
- Will I ever be good enough?
- Will my Accountancy background work for or against me?
- Do I highlight my past experience? Accountants can be perceived as boring.... but have fantastic analytical skills, project management skills and have spent a lifetime meeting deadlines!
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