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.
