To gain insight into industry practice through working in employment. Studio placements can vary from a few days to a few months and could potentially lead to employment after education.
What can you learn from industrial experience?
- Gain further knowledge in all aspects of design
- Create contacts, meet new people and collaborate with others
- Industry standard practices
- How a studio works and how they approach the work they take on
- Your own work ethic
- Studio visits/placements
- Freelance work
- Visiting professionals
- Feedback from those in industry
- Working with live clients (freelance)
Overall, I am more interested in print as opposed to web. Although I have worked with web-orientated projects (mostly creating web templates) prior to starting this course, I see myself working primarily with print due to the vast range of possibilities.
- Branding & Identity - Corporate identity, stationery
- Packaging - Unique, interactive
- Editorial - Layout, methodical
Daunting - Although this course prepares us for industrial experience, there is no knowing how we will react and adapt to the design industry. Studios differ and they each have a different way of working, something that we as prospective employees must work towards.
Contacting studios - I find it difficult to put myself across in an email; should I show my online portfolio or send them samples of my work? I feel as if I would be wasting their time by either asking for a studio visit, placement or feedback on my work.
Whereabouts/financing - As a student, I would need to find a studio 'close to home' in order to reduce costs in travel, accommodation and so on. However, there are studios which I would love to work in but are situated in London, for example or even abroad.
