it is working with / for a client, working to their needs and specifications and to their deadlines.
understanding how the design industry is working and where it is going, we need to be aware of what design is right now.
gaining and understanding of how a business operates within a company and what you role is within that.
as a designer we will always make mistakes, but professional experience will who how to deal with them and more importantly how to learn from them.
as a freelancer or an in house designer, you need to have a good variety of contacts who collaboratively can produce the work the client wants.
Why is professional / industrial experience important as part of PPD?
experience will give us the head start above the rest to get started in the design industry.
hopefully it will give us a clear understanding of which areas of design we are aiming to work with .
it keeps us up to date with 'today's' design and how design company's are tackling it and how they are working.
we can start to apply what we have learnt on our course to how this will help us to operate in a professional environment.
experience can give potential security for a job or if not it can get you in touch with the right people.
How do you gain professional / industrial experience and what form dose it take?
getting involved with any live briefs around and any competitions that we find, this is a great way of working to professional standard without having to much to take on at once.
gaining any work experience with design company's or freelancers even if its just to see how they work.
keep in contact with everyone, keep getting in touch with designers and they will remember you.
promoting yourself as a designer, and being confident, having somewhere that people can see you work and what you are recently working on via a blog or website or taking every opportunity or exhibit your work
get in contact with graduates in your profession and see where they are at now and see how they got there.
What should you aim to gain from professional / industrial experience?
firstly confidence in yourself and in your work, if you don't think you can do it, then why should clients.
this will be a priceless experience in the way in which a design company, freelancer works with a client before actually entering the industry permanently, so we can prepare ourselves.
we will gain contacts in the design industry that we can get back in touch with.
get a very clear understanding of how the industry works and where you fit in.
we must gain an understanding of how the design industry can become a career for us, how we can make a living and how to be successful.