This has been a really interesting module for me this year. It felt like a lifetime ago that I visited 42 Square which market the start of this module. After that I managed to secure two live briefs with what I consider to be big clients; Propagation House Recording Studios and DHR International. These were both cases of knowing, or meeting the right people over summer. Securing these jobs was a great learning curve for me and this has definitely been reflected by the tone I use in my emails, shifting from being apologetic to more confident and assertive in my thoughts and ideas to clients and people who I have emailed alike. It was great to know that I can operate confidently as a freelance graphic designer, and I hope to continue finding jobs like this in the future, especially as I begin searching for more stable employment.
Its a shame that Deep Space Industries never got back to me, now that the course is over and things have been quieting down a bit I think I will begin to email them again. I'm sure they get hundreds of emails a day so perhaps one day I will get through.
My biggest regret for this module has been not finding out more about studios back home in London. I was comfortable working as a freelancer over this year, and I suppose that I thought that if I could get enough work in, why would I stop? In reality I believe that I need some more experience to do some of the bigger jobs properly, and I definitely need more contacts in industry, something that I need to start building on right now.
On a more positive note I am very pleased with my current identity and website, which is up and running perfectly. I will continue to add new projects to the page over summer and edit out the old ones to keep the ideas fresh. One thing I am particularly happy with is that searching my name gets the website as the top result in google, a definite advantage for my professional practice.
All in all I have had a good year of finding myself as a designer, perhaps more in the process and style side than the professional side. However I am happy with where I am at the moment, but cautious that if I don't start moving forward right now I could have some problems by the end of summer. I need to hit the ground running and the time to start is now.
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