Sunday, 30 October 2011

Study task 2 Group tutorial preparation

1.  What is industrial experience?

  • 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!   
Some of my Infographic work


    Some websites and agencies I like 
















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