Vicky Carr (the engine house) and Alec
what would you be doing now to prepare for the future if you were a final year student rn?
- Do work online
- time and space to think about your portfolio
- Your online presence how you present yourself to the outside world
- Reach out to people, send others your portfolio to get feedback
- Take a look on social media (linkedin, twitter, instagram)
- Help each other! Feedback on others’ work
- Access to resources
- Portfolio websites, creative softwares (discount deals, free access)
Any tips on coping with a lack of resources? (to digital)
- good alternatives, great training opportunity
- How you can show your ideas and produce work digitally
- Physical work would have to be photographed
- Might begin with digital work
- interactive, some people like digital things
- Not “everything is digital now”
- Can’t make anything, you can propose anything
- Use language and sketches to picture your ideas!
- Portfolio: how you present your work to the outside world
- Physical execution isn’t always good, might undermine the idea
- Digital mockups could be creative (take pictures of billboard, walls…) and stick your work into that on PS
- Good stock website: mockupsforefree.com, graphic burger, free adobe stock
- Learn smth new? Youtube! Linkedin learning! Google!
- Don’t have to be all-round, don’t have to be perfect!
- More tools you take on, more language you have to express yourselves
- Keep on learning! Actively learning through your career!
- Don’t fear to learn and sort things out
- Digital work only: development is king
- Would like yo see you try, could hand in smth terrible
- Key is to show your thinking and development
- Portfolio is just a conversation piece for you to know each other
- Just to show how you approach things
- More interested in the ideas, not exactly the final outcome
- Make portfolio even more interactive! Moving images?
- Yes final outcomes are important, but ideas are the key
- Blog your developmental work, portfolio is to showcase final outcome
- Put your development somewhere that could be accessed
- Essay work, thesis: just pick subject (smth new to tutors)
- Make it experimental and fun
Does a student’s mental health factor in to the overall design process? How are you balancing your mental health and design work?
- Schedule and plan, structure time
- Routine
- relax, don’t stress yourself too much
- Go outside, take a walk!
- Dont settle
- Make use of reminders app on Macs
- Keep yourself on track of everything
- Make lists of lists
- Ponadoro technique: 15mins, 5 mins break…
- How to be a freelancer? Get up in the morning, get dressed, get back and do work, makes you motivated
- Exercise a bit!
- Find your way to stay motivated!
- It tough to be super productive all day for everyone!!
- Be kind to yourself, it fine!
- Try new things, make it exciting!
Do you think there will be a place for print design now?
- print offices
- slow, but works too!
- Get stuff delivered!
- Print vs digital
- Interactive? Shareable?
Do you have any advice for photography students?
- stop shooting?
- Design and visual art?
- If you can use your daily walk to go and document things?
- Smth fascinating might come out!
- The strong and airiness of streets
- Observe things, zoom in all the details
- Make a photo series , document your home, surroundings, family
- Make photo books, zines
- Image can define a situation, so record things from now!
- Nice opportunities to work on your editing skills, digital side of practice
How can we go about getting our faces out there s graduates now that a lot of events and network cancelled?
- there will be a comeback
- Would be adjusted!
- Just keep creating!
- Face to face online meetings
- People are trying to join up through online meetings
- Look for those and chat with and reach out to people through those
- events, directory sites
- thedots
- dezeen
Do you have any advice for students freelancers when freelance opportunities are super thin on the ground?
- show the work you wanna get
- Work that you do want do?
- Reach out to people
- You are not bothering people!! Just reach out!!
- Don’t think that people genuinely don’t want to hear from you
- Send emails!
How can we get the most out of virtual portfolio review?
- Figure out what you are looking for?
- Ask questions specially
- How can I xxx?, is xxx?
- Keep in touch!
- Always ask for recommendation!
- Use the network, the industry is small
- Ask for advice and suggestions!
- feedback, crits, pitch? Be specific!
- Tell them what is it you want!
- Who you are? What you want? What you want them to do?
Will studios still be hiring at the moment? placements?
- yea
- In demand
- People switching things online, switching medium
- Things can be done remotely with your laptop, phones…
- Placement doesn’t have to be 5 day a week
- Opportunity is still there, but its nature might be different now
- Keep looking, keep searching, don’t give up
Vic's advice
- keep calm, keep an open mind about things
- Keep in touch with lecturers
- Get facts
- See opportunities in things and try to relax!
- Send vic an email!
MY THOUGHTS
I have been checking on these online live talks on instagram! (@thisisintern, @livetalkfrom) Creatives give out advice and talk about their work through IG lives. I am actually quite into theses kind of online talks. As I am not keen on talking, these talks definitely help me a lot! (even not during the quarantine…) This is a talk from Alec and Vicky! They talked about things we could do out of the most during the quarantine. The main thing that they would like to bring up is that make good use of the digital world and do not fear about the change. Learn new stuff using free software deals and keep learning! Even professional designers are learning throughout their careers and it is actually the best time and opportunity for us to learn new skills. It depends on how me make full use of the quarantine time and get what you want from it.
After the talk, I feel so motivated. I was quite stressed since the quarantine started and was trying to make full use of the time and keep things back on track. The talk kind of helped me to calm down. I also feel motivated to learn new softwares! I feel like the quarantine is sort of hint to the future that most things would be switched into digital medium. Physical outcome and development is important, yet, digital work would be the trend and that it is crucial to equip myself with sufficient software skills in order to survive in the outside world. Therefore, if time allows, maybe when I get my COP work sorted and get 505 done, I would like to try new stuff like 3D cinema to maybe create some kinetic typography..? Or maybe try recording stuff through photography or filming and try learning video editing skills. To be honest it has been something that I would really want to learn, but I have been putting it aside as I got worried about the outcome a lot. But like what Vic said, development is king. Just give it a go and start trying and keep learning! The outcome could be shit but the idea could be mad.
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