The past two days of my so called ‘mid semester break’ have been taken up with a compulsory intensive subject aptly titled: Careers in the Curriculum. For the most part it was like being back at school (but worse)Â the woman in charge would haven been better off teaching kiddies who don’t understand what it means to be patronised instead of adult university students, however there were some exceptional industry speakers.
The designer from BlueBoat was fantastic- by the way, they have a glorious website. A really interesting small firm with photography components, web etc.
One of BlueBoat’s specialties is school branding. I was hoping my heart out to find more school related branding online other than the one shown during the presentation. Alas, no luck. I shall continue to search for inspiration elsewhere… and hope that I can bring life to all the mini sketches that I am filling my train rides with.
I am 90% sold on a membership for the DIA (Design Institute of Australia) in order to have a professional organisation behind me once I finish up my course, it seems regardless whether I go to work in a design firm or later freelance, that it would be an incredibly useful backing. And a great standard for ethics and professional practice.
And I am really regretting that Swinburne didn’t take us through more of this stuff (not the resume writing, but future thinking) earlier. Personally, it gives life to assignments and intention for study. I need the bigger picture and it seems lately that I’m not always the best at chasing it for myself.
So, the take aways have me another assignment (Cover Letter/Resume etc), and the unmarked push to work out what exactly I’m really good at and what kind of designer I want to be. What’s my brand? I am inspired.
Realistically speaking, I am physically unprepared for Industry Placement (Work during 3rd year uni as part of your course) in regards to folio – as I was quite certain up until recently that I didn’t want an extra year at Tertiary level. However I have also discovered a post-3rd year means of doing honours in a more exciting way – there are 160 Communication Design students and only 10 places. It might just be time to get off my butt.
It now feels like I can get there*, even if I pick the less conventional path … I like picking the less conventional path.
*wherever, but for here lets say, ‘being a designer’.
You have to remember, not everyone is going to want to do honours.
But that isn’t many places for so many students anyway.
The blueboat site is interesting…and has some nice features, like the photo coming into focus as you move to the link.
But whats with the text on white borders? yikes! No clear structure, ..yeeeach…. But then, maybe I am getting old!
The blog promises it will be there in August…its now almost october…..
“its now almost october”(sic)
Spoken like a true Freo supporter – always hoping to get September over and done with as soon as possible.
Whereas for us Tigers people, we relish the chance of watching football without Richmond losing!
gosh, lay off the football will you!
Text on White borders Mark? or boxes?
Yes the hierarchy is a little interesting, but then it looks like it is driven by the image focus points? Interesting approach.
yeh… I was a little cut about the blog too. I love blogs and I love design studios who use them.
True true Sam, and the IP people probably wont or can’t do the Design Centre thing anyway.
Not 100% if I want to do honors yet, just exploring possibilities…
I did forget to mention that they offer places to non Swinburnian grads as well… so even tougher perhaps.
Geoff..cough cough….re Richmond and September….
My own view is that all the text used there, with the boxes looks unprofessional.
and the links looked like they were thrown on the page. I can see what they are trying to do…I think…make the image drive the menu…but I dont think it works…function over form.
whereas this site….
http://www.inglewoodchurch.org.au
is just perfectly awesome!
except that I spent several seconds clicking on the images to see if I could get past the ‘splash page’ until I saw the links at the bottom… hah
erm… and your apostrophes come up as mini diamonds with a question mark in them.
sorry mark
thanks for that. which page did you see that on?
thanks for popping by my site. so good to find new, great, thinking people to connect with. i look forward to more.