Seen as though my initial plans of trying for internships and job offers straight out of uni have been put on hold for a while due to things going off at home I have been re-thinking my plans for the future.
I have still been researching into design studios I want to contact and get feedback for my portfolio, with a few tweaks I am ready to send off examples of my work... bit late in the day but I have to start sometime, and like I said I wasn't really sure what I wanted to gain from contacting studios when I cannot offer myself for work or placements for the near future. I have decided feedback and making the initial contacts is too valuable to pass upon at this time, and any feedback about my work and portfolio and advice for the future is too much of a good thing to ignore. With this focus I am going to get to it and contact studios I have admired and found from working on my design context who deal with a lot of briefs to do with social issues or have a clear focus on type and layout design.
I am also in the process of buying my first house! So I will have space in the 3rd bedroom, - an attic room, to set myself up a studio space so I can keep working from home and ticking over ideas so when I come to applying for internships and looking for jobs in the future I am not stale and out of date as a designer. I want to make good use of my online prescence at this time and use the networking sites like behance etc. to keep my work out in the field.
I am also going to research more into small freelance jobs I can take up, and see if I can build anything from this. I doubt I will be able to set aside enough time to set-up myself fully as a freelancer but I will be looking for projects I feel I can take up on, this way I can always be expanding my portfolio and get more live jobs in there.
So there is a basic layout of my future plans, now I can get to blogging interesting resources to help me fulfill them...
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