Work Placement Workshop

Learning Objectives: 6A2 6B2 6D2

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 
• focused, building case around a re-brand 
• research based 
• 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:

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - 16personalities.com results 

• The Protagonist
• ENFJ, -A/-T

Contacting Studios etc:

Be resilient!!

Formats:

• email 
• phone 
• mail 
• letter 
• package

Talk up soft skills and how you can fit within studio/team. Make first email short, sharp and compelling.

Have a clear ask, internship, feedback. 

Be clear about what you want, be direct.

Email needs to be easy to respond too and send follow up emails. 

Confidence and persistence 

Overall I found this session very helpful as it showed me the different job/areas I could go into after graduation. This was interesting as I just assumed I would go into a junior designer role within a small studio, then build up to art direction. However the idea of shadowing an art director or going straight into that area of design now feels more plausible.