Work Placement

Woohoo! My 6 week work placement is now sorted. I’ve got 3 placements each of 2 weeks so that I can break up my time. I was really worried that I’d choose to go somewhere for 6 weeks then absolutely hate it after a week.

I start off at a graphic design agency in London called QOTD (as yet I don’t really know what it stands for!)
Then I’ve got 2 placements locally to me back at home in Essex. One is called Rathbone Media and the other Breathe. Both are advertising agency which have there own design departments and cover everything from initial concept to final artwork placement.

I got my placements through family friends and contacts that they knew. I tried the cold calling method about 4 times, but was rejected 3 times, with the 4th offering me freelance work as a photography or reviewer which wasn’t particularly the areas I was interested in.

Still what I have got should be good, I’m looking forward to it!

SUBU Awards – “Dedicated Designer”

So, the SUBU awards were the other week. This is basically a night were people who have contributed to the student union get some acknowledgement for the work that they have done over the year. This years awards were different to previous years, with all areas of the SU under the same roof rather than having separate award nights for each.

I wasn’t able to go to the awards (in actual fact I didn’t really know anything about them until the afternoon before!) but as it turns out I won an award for working on Nerve Magazine. I was awarded the “Dedicated Designer” trophy. It’s a really nice glass engraved trophy and has pride of place on my window sill at the moment! haha.

I have designed every issue (barring one where I was on holiday for the deadline – Jan 09 issue) whether I get the articles a week in advance as its suppose to be or the day that its meant to be going to print. I’m a reliable designer! And enjoy the work that I do most of the time…having said that there is only so much that you can do for the sport section (zzzzzz)!!

I’m hoping to continue designing into next year, which will be my final year, and hopefully it will help set me up for a career once I finish. There are new changes coming to Nerve Magazine next year…it should be big and better so watch this space!

Censorship and Regulation Essay

Hmm…this seems to be a lot harder to write than it was suppose to be. The questions are too vague to choose which one to do so I don’t know what I’m actually writing. Not started writing yet, but I have started making some notes from the one book that I managed to find in the library.

5 days til hand in.