Summer of my PPD

To sum up my personal and professional development this year. 

Firstly, I feel that although I don't know what going to happen in 10 years time, from what I have worked on, in terms of my design practice and presence, I am happy about where I am now. 

At the beginning of this year I still wasn't sure exactly where I was going to be or whether I would have secured any placements or whether anyone would actually hire me. I did one placement in the summer after the first year but it didn't really feel like it  was a design placement in a design studio where I eventually want to end up in. I didn't manage to get one over the summer at the end of the second year which I fretted about quote a lot. So at the beginning of the this year I wanted to secure some placements, really improve my portfolio and CV, make some more contacts with designers, if not for future career at least to boost my confidence. I also needed to apply and secure a place doing postgraduate courses in London. 

so, Aims were : placements, portfolios, networking and post graduate courses. 

What I actually did this year. 

For my portfolio & CV I entered a few compeitiotn such as the sh! award, D&AD ,  inspire.create.Leeds anddid some competition briefs etc. I won the inspire.create.leeds. poster competition and won a two week paid placement at Brass which carried on and I carried on going there and doing bits of work for them once every week/ other week and have been asked to go back there over the summer.  I was shortlisted for the sh! award, although I did not win it. ( the price was a placement at Brass which I have already won from a previous competition) 

I was also shortlisted for the Sh! award but did not win it. 

I attended the Creative Milk Round, a portfolio surgery session of which I spoke to Numiko, Clearsilver and Twobirds one Stone. I managed to secure a paid placement with Numiko for two weeks ( but potentially could extend to a longer period of time)

Placements : Brass ( been and still in contact with /  to go back in )  and Numiko ( starting on 30th July)

I've also applied to do (MA) IN CREATIVE AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: DESIGN PATHWAY at Goldsmiths

and am intending to apply ( deadline is not for a while) to do other MA courses at Kingston and LCC as my 2nd choices

Still waiting to here back from Goldsmiths.

Short term plan is to do my placements in Leeds. Go home for the summer with a couple of potential freelance work for the Rockefellar Foundation and the  do a Masters in London. 

The Graduates 2012 : Its Nice That

Sh! Award Shortlisted

So, I'm going into Brass at 10.00 am on Wednesday to do a 10-15 minute presentation about myself in front of 6 creative directors.

PPD presentation

SAIsPRESENTATION

PPD Presentation notes

PPD

Intern at Numiko

I start on 30th July 2012

Internship Application : Drew London

Brass Summer placement

From me to Ian




Hi Ian, 

I hope you're well. I'm so sorry I've not been in touch for a couple of weeks! its just all been a little bit crazy, I feel really behind with work and FMP so I've just been locking myself in the studio.  I have quite a few collaborations going on at the moment and I really don't know if I will be able to come in anytime too soon really. I just wanted to drop you an email to let you know I'm still alive! I still haven't got a definite plan for the summer yet but I would still really love to come in and help out if that is still okay with you.

Sai

Ian's reply to me

Morning Sai,

Good to hear from you. Not a problem you concentrate on your college work (hope it's now going ok?).

I'm trying to site down this week and work out a plan for the summer placements - so will definitely be giving you first refusal.

Catch-up soon

ian

Placement at Numiko

So, following on from my visit at NumikoI decided to email Matt ( wanted to leave a week period) about what he said about showing my work to the director etc.

Hello

Sai Uennatornwaranggoon	2:17 PM (1 hour ago)
to Matthew

Hi Matt, 

Hope you had a lovely weekend. I know you're really busy but
I was wondering whether it would still be possible if could take a
look at my portfolio again or show it to the director. I really enjoyed
 talking to you the other day and its actually making me reconsider designing
for screen! I would love to see more how it all works,
I know it might be a long shot but it would literally be amazing if I
 could come in sometime over the summer even for a few days.
I've attached a PDF of my work and CV to the email :)

Thank you again for the other day! 

PORTFOLIOMARCH.pdf 6073K   View   Download

and this is what I got back....

David Eccles David@numiko.com	3:33 PM (37 minutes ago)
to me, Matthew

Hi Sai,

I’m one of the founders of Numiko, Matt passed me your email.
 He’s really impressed with your work and so we’d love to have you
 spend some time in our studio over summer.
 We don’t normally find that a couple of days is long enough for you
to get a real sense of what we do and how you might fit in, so I’d suggest 2 weeks.

If, at the end of those 2 weeks we both feel like there would
 be value extending that, then we can consider extending.
 Does that sound OK?  Let me know.

This will be a paid internship at £14,000 PA

Thanks

David

David Eccles
Director

I AM SO HAPPY

For email signature

Sh! Award

Submitted JPEGS

Studio visit at Numiko

Since, the creative Milkround portfolio surgery a couple of weeks go I've been emailing Matthew from Numiko to arrange for a studio visit.

So, I went in on Friday for a studio visit which was really interesting.

http://numiko.com/

He just kind of showed me the studio and explained what kind of stuff they do etc. and even though a lot of their work was really digital and web based. I found it really really interesting and warmed more towards the idea of digital design

What I got out of it was the fact that if you get hired as a designer in a digital design company, you still just do you r thing and give all the technical stuff to the tech guys...

respond from Magpie Studio

Apetite

I found an ad on form fifty five about a possible placement at apetite.

This is their website


http://www.appetiteuk.com/

Application for a Placement at Ry

I email Numiko a couple of days ago and got a reply from M
 that that would be fine and that he would email me again that monday to arrange times.

I didnt get an email in about a week so I emailed him again

Applying to more placement

I've just had a look through Form Fifty Five and Its Nice That for more intern opportunity and sent 6 5 emails out to

Interbrand http://www.interbrand.com/
Four IV http://www.fouriv.com/
Further Creative  www.furthercreative.co.uk/
Creative Partners http://www.creativeinterpartners.co.uk/
Dew Gibbons http://www.dewgibbons.com/

Follow up email from Creative Milkround

I email both Matthew from Numiko and Adam from Two birds one stone yesterday to thank them for having a look through my portfolio and if I could potentially come in for a studio visit.

I mentioned to Adam  that I would like to get in contact with Magpie Studio for a possible placement opportunity as on their website they only have the  'info' address so I asked him if there someone I could contact directly.

I'm just waiting for their replies now

Creative Milkround

I attended Creative Milkround today which was really good.  It wasn't massively useful

ClearSilver


I spoke to two people from Clearsilver and they were positive about my portfolio.  I spoke to the designer who did an MA at the Leeds university and it was actually really helpful talking to her. I needed someone to tell me that its definitely a good idea. So, that was good



They actually gave me another really good advice to talk to the Leeds council about the Roundhay park Branding, this would be useful in terms of research and may be I could try and suggest a rebranding to them.


Numiko


Matthew from Numiko was really helpful as well. I just had a generally good chat with him and he also mentioned a potential for some work for the company as an illustrator and a graphic design.

although the company mostly deals with web and screen designs, they work with really interesting clients like channel 4 and the BBC and I think it would still be really interesting to see how the company is run and how can a graphic designer fit into a place like that



Magpie

they really liked the fact that I had considered the entire range of the brand and how the identity would be applied. their company is split into two- the PR company ( two birds one stone ) and the design company (magpie).

Magpie was really positive about my portfolio and they brought up the potential placement at Magpie so I'm planning on emailing them asap.

They actually asked me a lot about how I went about my portfolio and the

Potential Internship : JCDeCaux

http://www.jcdecaux-oneworld.com/internship-junior-design-trainee/

Internship: Junior Design Trainee

JCDecaux OneWorld (the international sales and marketing unit of JCDecaux Group, the world’s leading outdoor advertising company) is offering an internship of 3 months, to start as soon as possible.

The successful candidate will assist the Senior Designer in design projects from ideation to completion. Typical tasks will be photo manipulation/retouching, creating digital newsletters and internal documents, creating appealing PowerPoint templates and sourcing, maintaining and managing the Group’s photography resource. Additional tasks will include content collation/production, online marketing, video editing, web design, and any other graphical duties needed by the department.

This will be a great opportunity to apply a diverse skill-set in a working environment while gaining valuable experience and insight into the Outdoor Advertising industry.

Essential:

• Broad proficiency and knowledge of multimedia design
• Ability to multitask and manage time effectively
• Graphic design skills (well versed in visual design, layout and typography)
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite and video editing software
• Knowledge of Mac/PC compatibility issues
• Basic video editing skills
• Ability to approach tasks/briefs creatively
• Ability to respond positively to direction and feedback
• Ability to quickly produce work to a high standard

Desirable:

• Web design skills (HTML and CSS)
• Knowledge of recent technology and trends
• Experience in social media marketing

Start date: ASAP (flexible)


Initial length of internship: 3 months


Location: Paddington, London


Remuneration: £700 per month

• Your CV
• A selection of your portfolio – in PDF format (6Mb max)
• Any relevant links to your work online (optional)

Deadline: Wednesday 14th March 2012

Hello, 

I am emailing you in response to the ad for an internship opportunity at JcDecaux OneWorld. Attached to this email is the PDF of my portfolio and my CV at the back of it. Also, here is the link to my website with more and regularly updated new work. 

www.designbysai.co.uk

Looking forward to hearing from you

(Sai) Praefa Uennatornwaranggoon