Visiting Professional - Footprint

Footprint was set up in July 2000 to provide printing services to the highest possible ethical and environmental standards. They also strive to make our printing as affordable as possible and offer a wide range of quality depending on your budget and the desired look and feel of your printed matter. 

Questions

You said you avoided some things, what things would you avoid? 

We've said no to sexist and transphobic content for not. We said no to print meat advertising. Political stuff. 

Does it cost more to be sustainable? 

We try and keep the price as low as price, that's part of our ethos - to be affordable to people. 

Would you be happy for people to bring their own stock?

Yeah, we don't guarantee it will work but we often let people bring their own stock but there are limits to certain prints. 

Visiting Professional - YCN & Harrogate Water | Thirsty Planet

YCN

- Since 2001, based in East London
- Dean and Helen
- YCN is a curated, creative network - membership based organisation - people and organisation that - Sees huge value in creativity.
- Insights & Intelligence - lots of research
- Sourcing talent
- Connecting with new clients
- Learning and development

GOALS

- Charity Water

- The water brand people buy because they know they're making the biggest difference

- The brand which everyone loves: symbolising positivity, through drinking well and doing good
- Keep Britain Tidy - 'Tidy Man' logo

QUESTIONS

- What is the biggest challenge you face as company? 

Is to make sure people understand the message and our responsibility as a company. 

- How do you make a profit from the student briefs? 

Financial investment from brands to submit the brief. 

- How do you choose the companies/brands you work with?

We want it to be as broad spread. We foremost look at companies with a charitable element.

- Do you follow up with feedback?

It's a real challenge because there are thousands of entries. Difficult for us and brands. 

- What do you want to gain from being involved with YCN?

Key to us that we want to utilise the creativity that you guys have.

Visiting Professional - Build

Build

Build helps clients to communicate, tell their story or grow their brand with contemporary, thoughtful design. Utilising graphic design alongside art direction, image making, moving image, and typography, they specialise in creating visual communications for forward-thinking clients in design-led sectors. Builds’ roster of international clients includes Virgin America, Made.com, Getty Images and Nike, as well as a number of independent businesses, designer-makers, and events both in the UK and abroad.

He discussed key things that triggered interest to eventual journey in being professional graphic designer. He has been a professional graphic designer 26 year now. Then he talked about his passion to the music since he was a child. Music has shaped his Graphic Design career. 'Graphic Design is the thing that moves me'. He showed some examples of different music brands. 

Iron Maiden's - he was inspired by the music and style. He talked about the thing that he didn't know what graphic design was, he just liked the music. He thought that there was something magical about it and something which captured his imagination as a teenager. He told us that the has a far better understanding now of graphic design and talked about different type faces. He did a foundation in Scarborough and has studied in York and he thinks that 'pretty graphic design is boring' he prefers something 'with  a bit of umph to it, something that's not quite right'. He ended up in New Castle later on to study and it turned out to be wrong course for him. He was interested in creating/designing record sleeve but the tutors thought there wasn't a future in record sleeve design.

Visiting Professional - Buttercrumble

Buttercrumble

                                     

Key Values:

• Smile
• Foundations
• Collaboration

Social Enterprise

• Businesses that are changing the world for the better. 

How social enterprise can help:

• Portfolio
• Connections
• Exposure

Projects:

• 2012 - Doedemee
• 2017 - Leeds Indie Food Fest

Visiting Professional - Claire - Studio 12

Studio 12

Studio12 is an exemplary digital media initiative, that invests in the creative talents of disadvantaged young people (16-30) living in Leeds. Studio12 strives to provide young people with a creative process to educate, engage and include young people in producing new work. It provides free access to a production studio, training, accredited qualifications and an industry panel of creative professionals. Part of Leeds Central Library, the space houses a fully equipped studio with a wide range of industry based multimedia, video, photography, music equipment and software packages. People accessing Studio12 are encouraged and supported to work towards attaining an accredited qualification and portfolios of work. 

Their main objectives:

• They empower people that are passionate about their culture. 
• They want to engage with young people living in Leeds.
• This enables young people to become the producers of new media content. 
• The want to empower young people to transfer and further develop their skills in new environments and provide knowledge of and everyday access to the wide resources of library service. 
• It's the people that come to them's projects that are the most important.

Visiting Professional - LCA Alumni - Harrison Park

Harrison Park is a Graphic Design alumni. During his presentation he explained us why its so important to network with build and build relationship. It's because one contact can lead you to many others contacts. He told us also that the jobs and work after the uni is not handed to us 'on the plate' we need to 'work hard it, be passionate'. 

He told us a story about how he worked in retail jobs after university then realised he shouldn't take that route because he had spent time on getting an education to do what he was passionate about. Another point which he explained to us what about 'selling yourself', 'don't be a dick' be humble it's because no one wants to work with someone who is arrogant or difficult as it would give that person a bad reputation. 'Don't be afraid to ask questions' and 'rejections' happens. 

He worked at a studio with his friend, he was convincing him self that he loves it because his friend did and he didn't. 'Stay true to your self' If its not working try something else. 'You are as good as your last project'. 'No ones ever looked at what grade I got'. Your portfolio and who you are as the person is so much more important than what you graduate with. He also said that it's beneficial to 'collaborate - use people around you and on other courses'. If you will contact professionals 'make it persona', talk about one of their recent projects, boots their ego or do something different. Go trial in different places. You don't have to take the first opportunity just make sure you know what is right for you.

Reflecting on last year PPP

This module is about exploring yourself as a designer.

Task:

Make a list of everything you found uncomfortable during first year. 

- Presentations 
- Group Works 
- Time Managing 


How I'm going to overcome these issues and progression into second year PPP:

I need to engage more with people during the group work and try to be more open and confident. I am going to make more effort to keep on top of every module so I need to learn more how can I manage my time. Also I need to get the blog posts done right away instead of couple days after because it would be difficult to finish all the blog posts in one time before the deadline. For presentations I need to watch more videos with different talks and presentations to learn different methods to effectively present my work.