Study Task 3 - What is Industrial Experience?

Industrial Experience

• What is Industrial experience?
• What can you learn from industrial experience?
• What form/format could industrial experience take?
• What areas of industry are you interested in?
• What are your concerns about industrial experience?

What is Industrial Experience?

1. Experiencing how Graphic Design works outside of education.
2. Getting a feel for the pace and turnaround time of briefs.
3. Seeing what roles are available in a working studio.
4. Making links with studios/ designers in the industry.
5. Speaking to existing professionals and finding out more about the industry.

What can you learn from Industrial Experience?

1. Ways of working that make your design practice more effective and suitable to a work environment
2. How to communicate clearly with other members of a design studio
3. How to speed up your design process to keep up with the turn around time of client led briefs.
4. The structure of jobs within a studio/ design environment.
5. How to deal with clients.

What form/ format could industrial experience take?

1. Placement in a design studio for a week
2. Long term internship in a studio
3. Visiting freelance designers/ studios and asking relevant and helpful questions- making connections with the industry.
4. Visiting printers an understanding the process of printing
5. Attending lectures from designers, networking with other people in the industry

What areas of industry are you interested in?

1. Design studios with a focus on branding
2. Print processes- lithography, rotogravure, digital etc.
3. Screen printing and how and when it can be used in industrial print
4. Communicating with clients effectively and coming across like I know what I'm talking about
5. What the main differences are between being part of a studio and working freelance

What are your concerns about industrial experience?

1. Not being given any work and it not being a valuable use of time
2. Not being able to understand a task they ask me to do
3. Coming across shy and socially awkward
4. Not leaving a good impression
5. Realising my work is no where near a suitable standard