Enterprise Group Meeting One

Meetin Date: 1st Decemeber 2011


We got together for our first group meeting to talk about what we want to do and how we plan to progress over the coming months...




Our Group. 




Charlie Crosby 
Strengths - committed, great at planning, strong design skills on illustrator and confident presentation skills
Weaknesses - Indecisive, visual thinker, researching
Extra - had work placements 


Lisa Whitaker

Strengths - Excellent background in this area, tenacity, excellent time management, strong at research
Weaknesses - Lives out side Leeds, shy at presentations


Claudia Winkleman 
Strengths - good with words, intelligent, strong illustrator, makes a good cup of tea, organised, easy to get along with, 
Weaknesses - No career direction, easily not motivated, research 


Marty Edwards
Strengths - Confident, layouts and visual thinker, good presentation, cool
Weaknesses - Bad organisation, bad punctuality, 








Plan of Action..




Individually think about where we want to go and what we want to achieve and be located. 


Gather a business plan and bring to the next meeting.


Bring research of other business of that we think what we want to be involved in so we can then model ourselves on parts of each business 

Evaluation

What is Industry...

What is Industrial experience?

1: Industry to me is something that i think has a real strong impulse on the way that we want to be educated and how we also want to create the work that we will when we work in "industry" (this links in to graphic design) it can range from knowledge about printers and special prints, all the way down the line to places such as illustration and DPS layouts


2: This could also be a development of your skills which we have created when it comes to the work load at university, but when you go into industry things will change very differently and this is a perfect way through going to work experience so that you can test the waters and see what you want to achieve overall. 


3. It can also perfect your portfolio, each time i go to a industry to get a placement and experience they will add more work to my portfolio and i can also achieve a higher balance of work which shows of my talents and skills to then get me the next experience, this is something which is vital to development of myself. 


4. To a certain degree it is also a confidence boost as someone has thought that your work is good enough to want to employ you and have you in there studio so that you can work with them, this can be the motivational boost that i need when it finally comes down to the final outlook and what i want to achieve. 


5. Finally it is something which relates to what you want to do for the rest of your creative career, experience in these areas are something which is crucial to getting the final design done and this will then make the final outlook on things work perfectly 






What can you learn from industrial experience?


1. You can always learn new skills and other things such as this from the overall outcome of industry based experience, these can help progress you along the lines of what you want to do and what you need to learn to then progress to the next step when you finally have the experience needed. 


2. You can learn the pace of work which is required for you to work at so you can get the most from the placement these all range from what you look at and what you are hoping for. They will then give you the needed time schedules for when a crit would be for a piece of work for a client. 


3. You can learn if thats really the type of work that you want to go on and do full time. This could be editorial or illustration but until you try it you will never know what the actual place is like when you come back to it and what you want to achieve from it all. 


4. You will learn the correct language that is needed when you speak to clients, this is something which i aint learnt yet cause i still speak really casually and not always using the correct lingo when it comes to actually speaking in person. 


5. You will also learn how to "network" this is so that you are able to really get a grip of things such as when you are needed to build a database of things that all the people that you may need to get in touch with again to get more work from or if you may need help from them such as printers or proof readers. 






What form/format could industrial experience take?

1. Work placements are the first way that i could gather industry experience, These come free and people want to look around for the free talent that is on display, although i think this could then range to a very strong and experienced designers that work there and i would then be trained alot faster and it would give me the design practice which i need and want.

2. Free lance work, creating work and selling them to people, this would then gather there attention and make them want to give me more. If i was to do some of this freelance work i could also have some extra money coming in whilst i did this and it gets my name out there at the same time. This is a risk however cause i don't know if i would be able to do this correct the first time round but its something i will have to do eventually.

3. Placements, this is a perfect way for me to get the experience that i need to achieve and want from the rest of the ways that i decide to work, these will be something that i look into and that will help me progress along the design way of working which i really need too.

4. I could create work for websites and other places such as Behance and then post the work up there. this will get my name out there and also let people judge my work and see what they think. This could get me some feedback which will help with what i am needing to progress as a creative.

5. I could work with other experienced designers to then get a taste of things and see how it all would work out and what to do when i get into things, this way i would avoid masking the mistakes myself and then be able to link these together to make the absolute way of looking into things.  

What areas of industry are you interested in?

1. Editorial, this is an area which has always caught my interest and wanted me too look into it alittle more, in first year i did a little project on it and it kind of put me off but i think if i was too stick at something then it could be alot more interesting towards me and i will then want to play this more and it would work better for me overall. 

2. Ive seen how the printers works when they have massive print runs to do, it would be good to see which other areas are also good to work with and what i could achieve from them. Special print workshops would be a good area to go and work with cause i would like to see how they create things such as the foil print and block printing, these could be interesting to learn about.

3. Branding and Identity is another area which i could look into, this is something which i have found that i have looked at with each project that i keep going for. this could link me into a whole range of things, although each time i get excited about doing this. This could be something that i look into. 

4. Typography in general is an area that will always interest me and something that makes the most sense from everything, i love how its so simple tow work with yet if done correctly you can make so much sense form it all and create something really spectacular. This links into so many different areas of graphic design, ranging from creating DPS designs and then across towards Promotion and Publishing.

5. Promotion is finally the something else that interests me but not as much as the rest of them cause i think they have a much more demanding and concrete brief which you need to stick too. This aint something that i want to do overall. Still something that ill look into but when it comes down to it i cant see this being the definitive outcome of it all.

What are your concerns about industrial experience?

1. Selling my creative soul, i don't like the thought of having to constantly work with designers who tell me how to design and how to create. This is something that im going to have to do if i want to make it in the creative world, but this is still something that i don't have a choice in doing anymore. If i want to do work for a creative company then this is something inbetween that i need to do.

2. Getting work abroad has always been a big worry of mine. I wouldn't know where to start and how i would approach them. I suppose you would start by email as this would be the most efficient way but still it would panic me when coming to do this. 

3. The difference between a university brief and a professional brief, there could be a vast of subtle change. hopefully it wont be as bad as i think it is because i already have a high demanding course so that i think i could handle it. 

4. How much work would i need to produce when it comes down to applying for an internship or something such as these, they could be a range of things that they look for, or very specific! It would depend on the company but still this is something which ill have to learn to work around and be open to consider. 

5. What sort of work load i will be working with, as we work now we currently have bout seven briefs on the go at any one time but then maybe in a professional you concentrate on one per week or maybe you will then change across to something which is alittle more subtle yet demanding and this would be twelve in a week. 

John and Jane Workshop 1

This was a workshop where we got into groups and then wrote down the task basically which we had to do individually but this time we had to link them together and make it so we had a group collective for the whole lot and then this allowed us to see how each of our piers also wish to work when it comes  down to the final outcome of the whole thing. Below are the sheets which we created when we were looking into them and picking which we through fit best and which didn't...

The top sheet is based on how we feel when it comes to industry experience, for example when we come to picking up what we expect from it and how we plan to approach industry in a way so we can be confident and also know what to expect when it comes down to it. 

The second sheet is why we chose to select to do this course and what we intend to complete from it all in the end. This is something which will make a vast change to the way we see and personally for me it help me refocus on what i want to achieve from the end of this course.

Concept Crit.

This is the area which was there to help give feedback on what we already had created and what we then needed to get done on everything. This will prove rather helpful when looking back over the progress and  development of my work. 


Strengths.
Good timing because of the olympics.

Area's for Improvement.
Look at both genders
Look at where to promote 

Student Group Crit.

This was for the concept crit, this was when we were in a group of six people and then i really liked this cause i got some strong feedback and really helped me with how i want to look at my finals that i plan to create...


Extent of initial research and development of my concept.
Broad range of stats, video etc...
from activity 
concepts excelled well 


Overall: Very Good




Concept proposal and the exploit of practical and conceptual investigation.
Think about the promotional aspect of it - how its different and what makes it special.


Overall: Very Good 




Range of products to be produced to identify the problem.
Branding on the laces, the colour logo is effective, maybe mix it up with the sports, rope-laces skipping? Fine lines between things. 


Overall: Very Good




Additional Comments.
The logo could also be a running track. 




Action Plan


Action:   To sport athletes to find out there opinion
Reason:  To improve the concept and prove that to the product doesnt already exists


Action:   Look at olympics legacy in Britain related with your british brand
Reason:  To promote athletics in the UK

Lecture 1 Quiz

This is the first quiz from the series of enterprise lectures which we will have to go over and do, i achieved a 6 out of 10 which i dont think is that bad really when it comes down to this subject, as to me it seems to be a whole new language all together, but hopefully i will start to understand it more and this will allow me to then learn more how to get myself out there and then in turn become an expert at being known. 

I am unable to test this one again as when i finished it said im not allowed to try it again, however i might try again when i have forgot what the answers where so i can see if i can progress when i have revised my answers and then taught myself what they all mean.