What is industrial experience?
- a visit to a professional design studio
- a chance to get a better understanding of what it would actually be like to work in a studio
- a review of your portfolio from a professional who is out there, and knows what's going on
- an opportunity to speak to people and get your name out there
- something to help make decisions with what we actually want to do
What can you learn from industrial experience?
- how a professional environment operates
- what it is actually like to work in the 'real world' as opposed to working on studio briefs set by the tutors
- if the area of design I think I want to go into once I leave uni is actually the right area for me
- how I would fit into an existing design studio that I really like, what sort of role I would be best suited for
- whether I can actually do this or not
- get a feel for the actual pace that design studios work
- who I am as a designer, from things such as portfolio reviews, and get feedback from people who are out there doing it, and know sort of the areas I need to concentrate more on/improve on
What form/format could industrial experience take?
- work placements
- studio visits
- portfolio review
- day
- week
- month
- blogs/emails
- telephone
What areas of industry are you interested in?
- editorial - such as magazines and publications
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- printed design - stuff that would be printed and you can hold physically as opposed to what you do to be seen on a screen
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What are your concerns about industrial experience?
- what if the place I contact doesn't like my work?
- what do I do if I contact X amount of studios and none get back to me?
- what sort of 'tone' is right? formal/informal/what?
- what if I get a placement/what ever somewhere far away like london and I'd have to move/stay for a while? how could I afford it? where would I even start looking to make it possible?
- ending up going to places I end up not liking and it changed me thinking what I want to do?
- how do I know if the place I'm contacting will actually be wanting to hear from me?
- what should I actually expect to gain from this? how high/low should I set my expectations?
- what if I end up at a placement in somewhere like London, and it turns out that all I do for the week or what ever long is make tea?
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