Sunday 20 January 2019

Work Placement Workshop

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Jobs as graphic design:


- Graphic designer (freelance) - can freelance in agencies 
- Junior designer (studio)  - campaigner 
In-house designer - campaigner 
Junior designer in ad agency  - campaigner 
Creative director - commander, mediator 
Marketing 
- Consultancy - debtor - similar to freelance but more selling strategy than design strategy, can give a brand a nail on reading of trends within age group 
- Art direction - commander, protagonist 
Teacher or lecturer 
- Social media manager 
- Studio founder - commander, protagonist 
App design 
- Ux/ui design 
- Illustrator - advocate 
Typographer  
- Product designer 
- Blogger/ social media - advocate, mediator 
Set design  - advocate 
Content strategist - protagonist - youth culture based
- Advertising creative - debtor - ideas machine
- Packaging design 
- Pre press technician 
- Front end web designer - no coding needed
- Motion design 
- Exhibition design - protagonist - OK-RM
- Interior design 
- Print maker  - advocate - dizzy ink, moo, newspaper club 
- Account director - first point of contact for client, work for a single client within a company 
- Brand strategist - debtor - researched based, focused, building case around a re-brand 
- Media planner or buyer - advertising based, once campaign is complete layout out case for where designs will be broadcast or based, strategy based 
- Image retoucher 
- Art worker  - campaigner - retoucher, make sure work is ready for print 
- Magazine editor  - advocate 
Event production 
- Video artist 
- Artist - mediator

Personality test :



Contacting Studios 

- Use email, phone or mail (letter or a package?) and be resilient! Talk up the soft skills you have and how you can benefit them and fit in within their team or studio - do your research on them. 
- Make the emails short and to the point whilst being compelling
- have a clear ask, to the point
- Make sure your emails are easy to respond to 
- Be confident! 

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