Monday 29 October 2012

PP2 : TASK 3


What is industrial experience?



- A chance to understand and witness working professional designers in their own working
  environment, gaining an understanding of how professionals work.
- Learning how to work for and with clients on live briefs, which will involve constraints such as
  money which would effect colour use, stock etc.
- A chance to gain insight into how different studios are run, what it involves to run a studio and the
  business side to running a studio
- A very important and key thing that all students should seek to gain as it will give you more
  knowledge about the profession you are going to go and work in, it helps prepares you so when you
  leave uni you know what to expect and how to apply what you have learned.
- Understanding how the practice runs and works outside of education, gaining a knowledge how to
  apply what we learn in uni to the professional world.


What can you learn from industrial experience?

- Learn how to conduct yourself in a professional way dealing with clients, colleagues, printers etc
- Help you understand and decide where you fit in the professional world, wether you want to work in
  a small studio, large studio, freelance etc
- Learn the processes within working for a client, learning how professionals present and pitch work to
  clients
- Learn how the design process works in the proffesional world, from recieving a breif of the client to
  pitching ideas to final resolved peice of work and then presenting once again to client.
- What areas of graphic design you are interested in and if you might want to specialise
- Learn about the business side of graphic desing like running your own practice, costs, what you need,
  if its something you are interested in etc

What form / format could industrial experience take?

- visting studios
- work placements
- working on live briefs
- visiting printers
- going to visiting proffesionals talks


What areas of industry are you interested in?

- print procedures and techniques
- branding and identity
- publishing and editorial
- webdesign
- design for print

What are your concerns about industry experience?

- Not meeting the high standards of the design proffesionals
- Not having the confidence to present my work, my ideas and myself to proffesionals 
- Not finding a local placement

- Not enjoying it
- Getting stuck on briefs they set

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