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Level 06 Promotion

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PPD Task 2 - Creative Industries.

dentify 5 companies/studios which you consider potentially synergetic to you personally.

Write a short explanatory paragraph and reasons for each, Identify the top choice and WHY you feel that they may have synergy with your practice now, or in the near future.

Is your choice based on:

Location
Direction of practice
The brand philosophy
Client Base

What if none of those is your main reason for choosing to follow this organization, what is it specifically:

1: The Surgery 
http://thedesignsurgery.co.uk/

2: Here Design
http://www.heredesign.co.uk/

3: The Beautiful Meme
http://www.thebeautifulmeme.com/

4: Candy Black 
http://www.candyblackdesign.com/index.html 

5: Raw Creative
http://www.weareraw.co.uk/

When considering these practices, Please consider

WHO they are/who are you?

WHY you are contacting them and why they should listen?

WHAT do you want them to do next and what do you actually want.

WHY they should get back to you?

Now you have identified initially these studios you feel synergy with. Please list 8 methods you could utilize to contact them.

1: Email

2: Direct Mail 

3: Phone Call

4: Interesting Object

5: Arrive At Their Door

6: Portfolio

7: Website

8: Get Famous 

PPD Task 1 - Re-evaluating My Aims

List 5 (or more) things you know now, that you didn’t before the christmas break. 

     - What to say when you contact professionals 

     - Practice & experience in interviews

     - Basics on web design

     - How to manage my time more effectively 

     - What i wanted to get out of my final year on the course

List 5 (or more) things you would address differently than you did this Summer.

     - Go to see more studios

     - Be more creative through-out summer 

     - Start my dissertation sooner

     - Continue to use my design skills through-out so i'm not rusty when I'm back 

     - Not go home for the full summer & stay in Leeds for more of it

List 5 (or more) specific things you will address this semester, that should be useful.

     - My Critical writing skills 

     - My Editorial, Grid & Layout skills 

     - My ability to hand render typography

     - Research further into starting up my own business

     - My photography skills 

List 5 (or more) things you feel we could address as a group?

     - Finding new studios 

     - Work out of charges 

     - Where to buy the best stocks & print deals 

     - What to look out for when designing (whats allowed & what isn't)

     - Ways that can make you stand out from the 1000's of other designers out there 

List 5 (or more) things you feel we have not looked at in PPD you personally would like to know more about with reference to professionalism?

     - Whats the most lucrative side to graphic design

     - Whats the best way of selling your work to the public 

     - Meet more designers from more varied locations so we get an insight into different cities 

     - What are all the positions in a graphic designers studio 

     - How to make sure you don't get screwed over on payments for your work

MY PPD BLOG POSTS ARE POSTED AND LABELED ON MY FMP BLOG

http://martyaaronedwardsfmp.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/OUGD303%20PPD?updated-max=2013-01-22T10:35:00-08:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false

All the work for my PPD module are posted on the FMP blog, this is has never ben brought up as an issue the whole way through my final major project so i assume that i was blogging all the information correctly.

Above is a link to where you will find the start of the posts for my PPD module s

This post represents the start of my Final Major Project.
Just an indicator.