Study Task 3 - What is Industrial Experience?

• What is Industrial experience?

Industrial experience is:

• you understanding and being active within the creative industry
• being in communication with creative people
• learning through practical activity
• creating a foundation to your areas of interest in design
• networking online and gaining business contacts

business connections - http://uk.linkedin.com

creative networking - http://www.meetup.com/C-I-N-G/

• What can you learn from industrial experience?

You can learn:

• what scale of business you want to work within eg. small group studios, freelance, large company system
• where your work and ambitions fit into the industry
• how to communicate with working professionals and printers
• the financial costs to designing and being hired
• how to present yourself to different companies

freelance - https://www.elance.com

Creating and communicating yourself to companies/clients -

“For corporate communications consultant Megan, a new brand identity increased the visibility of her business, along with its value. Aligning Megan’s primary planning, training and writing services under a single descriptor — ‘communication strategist’ — clarified her capabilities. Using language and typography to design an innovative logo reflected Megan’s personality. The result was some of the ‘The Year’s Best Work’, according to industry publication, Australian Creative.”

http://www.logodesignlove.com/megan-sheerin#

• What form/format could industrial experience take?

The different form/formats it can take are:

• studio visits
• live briefs or competitions
• online networking in the creative/business sector
• freelance work
• exhibitions and galleries

http://www.talenthouse.com

http://www.dandad.org

http://www.londondesignfestival.com

• What areas of industry are you interested in?

The areas of the industry I am interested in are:

• packaging
• branding and identity
• film and animation
• publications
• interior graphic design 

http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/editions-of-100/

http://emeyele.com/projects/serrajordia-taller-de-pa.html

http://www.graphicadisplay.co.uk/window-graphics-and-retail-window-displays.html

http://manualcreative.com/projects/proxy/

http://jhelmuth.com/jansonBook.html

• What are your concerns about industrial experience?

My concerns about industrial experience are:

• Is my work good enough to show professionals?
• How do you talk to them?
• Finding time to go to studios/events etc.
• How can you find out about opportunities or do you go make them yourself?
• What if its abroad and in term time?
• Being taken seriously as a designer

Industrial experience comes in many forms of learning by first hand involvement of an activity within the area of interest. Graphic design experience of the industry can be by networking online or in person with creative people or actually seeing or working within a design business. My own industrial experience as of present is very little but I hope to expand what small amount I do have over the course of the year. My aims for this year to get a true understanding of the different business types such as freelance, small and large scale companies as well as the different sectors such as brand and identity, motion graphics work within different companies and areas like film production. I'd really like to enter some competitions, look around studios and do some work for small businesses possible. I feel these actions will really give a good range of industrial experience and will allow me to me comfortable and confident with working in the live industry instead of the studio.

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