Friday, 9 February 2018

OUGD602 - Conversations with Professionals

Reaching out &
Finding Work Experience

Over the past few weeks, I have been focusing on getting in touch with professionals within the creative industry. I asked around amongst friends, family and peers to source inspiring people that I could possibly talk to and hopefully find work experience through. Currently, I haven't made any decisions on what area of design I want to work in and so I am using this to my advantage by reaching out to anyone I can in order to get a wide scope on things.

In a conversation I had with a friend about my situation, he suggested that I emailed Ray from Wieden and Kennedy. He gave me her personal email and I went ahead and contacted her. She was extremely friendly from the get-go and we began to talk about my situation and how she could help me out.

Wieden + Kennedy

"Wieden + Kennedy exists to create strong and provocative relationships between good companies and their customers"

They recently worked on the well-known Nike campaign 'Nothing beats a Londoner'



String of Emails

Ray and I have been emailing back and forth for a while now, discussing what I am up to and who else I should contact etc. When having this discussing, she suggested I contact a friend of hers who works at Wired Magazine.

As I have a keen interest in editorial design and have previous experience at a magazine publishers, I jumped at the chance to get in touch with him.




Wired

Wired is a well established magazine publishers as well as an online website and blog. I have contacted Andrew about possible work experience and he has confirmed that they can have me in for a couple of weeks once I am finished up in Leeds.










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