Sunday, July 1, 2012

Post-Degree Show

It's been unexpectedly incredibly busy after the degree show. From looking at previous years, our year seemed to had believed that "the design industry hunts for new talents at degree shows is a myth that rarely happens". But many from my year seem to already found jobs through the degree show, it seems like degree show as a place to get jobs could work. So if you are in second or first years, keep your hopes up, it can work.

From what I see, it seems like the industry doesn't really go to degree show actively searching for the new talent. But rather they go to degree shows just for fun, and they see some work that fits with their current project, and they contact the student if he or she would like to do some work for them. So there is already a nice fit from the very beginning, that students' works are relevant to the studio's. That's my personal experience and I do see that's the case for few others around.

For that reason, it helps to put work that really represents you. My space demonstrated no skills or no design sensitivities, but as I look back to it now, it really reflected my personality and my long-time interests. That was a happy accident and I'm grateful now, as I am currently enjoying the post-degree show times.



ご無沙汰してます。卒業式を半月後に控え、卒展後の充実した日々を過ごしています。

去年の卒業生の様子から、「卒展がきっかけで、仕事が降ってくるなんてことはない」という共通認識があったのですが、多くの友達が卒展をきっかけに仕事をもらっており、どうやら卒展で仕事って決まるものみたい。なので、今まだ大学に在学中の子たちは期待してもいいと思います。

結局、グラフィックデザインの場合、アートやファッションのように「よし、卒展で素晴らしい才能を発掘するぞ!」と出かけて、卒業生に声をかけていく、というわけではなく、趣味で行った卒展で、今自分たちがやってるプロジェクトに合う生徒をたまたま見つけたので、声をかけてみた、という形が多い気がする。私もそういった感じで声をかけてもらっており、最終的にお仕事を引き受けるかどうかは別として、自分と似たプロジェクトをしている会社の方々と話をするのは、お互いにとって有意義。


In any case, post-degree show consisted of watching a lot of football.
Followings are fabulous images from The Green Soccer Journal specially dedicated blog for Euro 2012. Art direction is rather slick (wearing football uniform with Burberry jacket and Acne jeans is totally great), but also successfully tell a lot of story within each image. 




(All images from The Green Soccer Journal)