Presentation: Notes

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A Alone - 

• Don’t like working alone.
• Prefer to surrounded by people.
• Freelancing wouldn’t suit me.
• Working in a busy environment with lots of people.
• A school or studio is perfect for this. 

B Banners - 

• These are the banners I designed for whitecote primary school.
• They were chosen from a range of designs.
• Feedback stated they represented the personality of the school well.
• Useful as I won money, the process of dealing with an outside client and it was a brief set in the establishment I want to work in. 
• Allowed me to incorporate illustration as well. 
• Got work experience and new contacts out of it. 

C Collaboration - 

• Projects which I have collaborated on.
• The pitch, working in a group, sharing ideas it went well, if everyone puts the same amount of effort in.
• Making compromises.
• Depends who you work with. 
• Everyone can bring different skills.

D Difficulties-  

• Working with clients, differing opinions, not taking the designers advice.
• Asking collaborative partner for work.
• Creative report, getting replies or people’s time to answer questions. 

E Education -

• The importance of art in education.
• Looking at how contemporary artists are trying to make it more important. 
• The images show the Hepworth’s school prints project, artists creating pieces of contemporary art to be placed in schools and inspire children.
• Looked at this in the creative report also, opinions on the government’s role and how often art is taught in schools. 
• How important it is for kids to be creative 

F Future- 

• Looking into the near future, goals.
• Continue through level 6, graduate.
• I would like to travel more with friends, creating more connections and discovering more cultures. 
• I would like to carry out my PGCE and qualify as a teacher.
• Maybe teach abroad. 

G Grown Up Chocolate Company - 

• Entering into the YCN Competition.
• Interesting to branch out into packaging design, haven’t touched upon this this year or last year.
• Enjoyed the project and collaborating with an illustrator.
• Normally I would enjoy to do the illustrations as well, but it was interesting to work with someone else and also meant I could focus solely on the design aspect. 
• Still haven’t heard from YCN.
• Professional look and photographed professionally. 
• Fun to do work for a real life brand. 

H Holly - 

• Like planning and organising. 
• Leadership 
• Prefer designing for children
• I like being creative in different ways, creating games.
• Bright colours, sans serif fonts.
• Ideas, names
• Don’t like sitting at a computer

I Illustration - 

• Enjoyed bringing illustration into my projects again.
• Did this a lot at A-level and in previous projects.
• I like to incorporate digital and illustration design together. 
• Shows my creative side in a different way.
• Simple illustrations not too complicated. 

J Journey - 

• Looking at universities to study my PGCE.
• Researching into different ways and steps into teaching.
• There are some which are school based training.
• Looking at Chester, Staffordshire, Birmingham, closer to home to commute, cheaper. 
• Applying through UCAS, need to do english and maths test.
• Interview process.
• NQT year afterwards. 

K Knowledge - 

• Learnt different things such as carrying out an invoice and sending it to a client.
• Troubles with the invoice.
• Sending parcels.
• UX and app design
• Animating in photoshop
• Communicating with clients
• CV

L Live Briefs - 

• Penguin book cover design, designing for real clients, competition, option of winning money and experience.
• White cote primary school, real work which will be professionally printed and become a part of the school. Making a difference, helping people as well as being paid.
• Been invited to see it.
• The grown up chocolate company, entering competitions, it’s an existing brand.
• Real client work, branding, having someone like your work and interact with it, helping them grow their business. 

M Meeting People - 

• Meeting new people from different countries.
• Creating new networks and places to visit and possibly live in the future.
• Go and travel there fore cheaper.
• Netherlands, Norway.

N NCS - 

• Over Summer
• Paid experience
• interview process
• Boosts confidence and great experience for what I want to do in the future.
• Meeting new people.
• Put my creative skills into practice.

O Open Minded -

• After carrying out live briefs, it mad eye aware that I may be interested in some aspects of this.
• Maybe looking at marketing or interior design in the future.
• Still using my creative skills and degree.
• Don’t just have to be a teacher forever.
• Get my teaching qualification and if I don’t enjoy it or get bored I can always move onto something else.
• Need some experience in interior design or marketing design studios. 

P Pitching - 

• Much more confident in pitching and presenting.
• Interesting to see other people’s ideas.
• Learning how to show the journey of an idea without giving too much away at the start.
• Hard to get complicated ideas across. 

Q Questions - 

• Ask questions.
• It’s important and interesting to ask other people questions.
• Especially those that have been through what you’ve been through already.
• Need to ask people for advice.
• People like to talk about themselves.
• It’s important for networking.
• If you don’t ask you don’t get.
• It’s not what you know it’s who you know.

R Report - 

• Contacted one industry creative and 3 teachers.
• Learnt about different routes and ways into teaching.
• Opinions on art in schools, how teachers do actually think it’s important.
• Quite a lot go teachers have done art and design degrees.
• Still creative on the side.
• Difficulties of teaching and involvement of government.
• Inspiration
• Setting up and keeping your own business.
• Hard to get interviews from high up creatives as they are busy.
• Positives and negatives of teaching.

S Skills - 

• Increased my skills in the adobe suite.
• UX Design.
• Looking at photography and taking professional photos of work
• Placing work in context, professional mock ups.
• Communicating and working with people.
• Collaborating and compromising. 

T Time Management - 

• Time management has been important throughout this year.
• Allocating days to complete certain tasks.
• Creating timetables.
• Being realistic with what you can complete in certain amounts of time.
• Leaving time for things that could go wrong. 
• Fitting personal life around uni life.
• Personal life and extra curricular activities can be just as important as university work. 

U University - 

• Level 06
• Focus on children’s design.
• Look at packaging design and branding, enjoyed that this year in some projects.
• Incorporate illustration more.
• Begin to apply/look at universities for PGCE.
• Get more experience and contacts.

V Volunteering - 

• More volunteer work in schools over summer.
• Helping out classes, taking small groups out.
• Using my creative skills, in displays and backdrops around the school. 
• Experience
• PGCE
• Real life work
• Previous volunteer work

W Work - 

• Most favourite work I have designed for responsive.
• Things I am passionate about and have been interested in.
• Branding and packaging.
• First time branching out into this area.
• Real work for real people. 

X Experience -

• Experience in schools which is crucial for applying for my PGCE
• Looking at two different primary schools and a secondary school for a range of experience.
• Helping out with graphic designs n secondary school.
• Working at NCS.
• Volunteer and experience with graphic design studio who I know and have worked at before. 

Y Young Creatives -

• Working with young children.
• Great experience.
• Creating art work, joining in, delivering tasks, helping the children with art.
• Seeing what they create.
• Becoming more confident.
• Working with a range of ages.

Z Zebra -

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