Course Director: Caroline Norman 11 December 2014 MA Design Management: Professional Development The Purple Agency, November 2014. Contents 1. Where am I now? 3 2. Where do I want to be? 6 3. What opportunities are there? 8 4. What do I need to get there? 10 5. How am I going to use the course? 11 5.1 Summary 12 6. References 13 7. Appendices 14 List of tables and figures A. Industry experience infographic 3 B. Summary of clear versus less clear preferences 5 C. Agency organisational structure 7 D. Design Council Design Industry Research 2010 report 8 E. Technical skills infographic 10 F. Personal development 11 Appendices Appendix A: Curriculum Vitae 14 Appendix B: Professional Biography 19 Appendix C: Personal Biography 19 Appendix D: Linkedin profile 21 Appendix E: Course key dates 29 Appendix F: Module descriptions 30 Where am I now? My career in the design industry has spanned more than twenty years from my early years as a junior designer, through to my current role as a Studio Manager for a multi-national, integrated design and marketing agency. I have had an interesting career, working in many sectors and even working abroad on a couple of occasions. Fig. A: Infographic of my industry experience. Based on primary source data (2014). To make the most of my Master’s degree I have created a plan that outlines my future career goals, whilst reflecting on my personal and professional life journey up to my current role to date. Through reflection, the
I have a lot of career goals that I am currently working on and some that will be started shortly. All of these goals are going to help me with my career and personal life. This paper is going to discuss some of my short and long term goals that I am planning for. This paper will also describe how I plan to accomplish those goals with the help of an education plan. There have been a lot of technological developments within my career field that will affect both my long term and short term goals.
But as I prepare to graduate from college, I have actively pursued roles and opportunities in my organizations and other areas that I believe will prepare me for my future challenges. Firstly, my involvement in the
We live in a dynamic time when staying focused and on top of things are the tools to excel and guarantee success in both professional and personal arenas. Pursuing a graduate study and improving communication skills are a few of many ways I chose to guarantee my personal and professional success. It wasn’t easy taking the decision to pursue a graduate study, and like all major decisions in one’s life, it comes with challenges, which were of an emotional, financial, and organizational nature in my case. To facilitate success, setting goals is most commonly seen as the way forward. In addition to discussing setting goals and milestones, I will be exposing the challenges met in the road to success and the related strategies to overcome them
In regards to my future, I now have short, medium and long-term goals. Firstly, I would definitely consider the continuation of coaching to both my future colleagues, friends and family. An invaluable tool that will not only befit myself, but my peers. Secondly, I would like to revisit and continue my PDP (below) in the coming years, furthering my development and progression into a successful career. Finally, given the nature of the contemporary business environment, I have a goal to perform to the best of my ability. Reflective learning has proved beneficial on such a significant scale this academic year that I must continue this behaviour in both the short, medium and long
Career shadow day was a great opportunity that made me question possible careers for myself. I shadowed Sean Spotts, an employee at Siemens Industry Inc. He is a Mechanical Engineer, or someone who applies physics and material science to design or maintenance of mechanical systems. Even though he is not in my goal career of architecture, through him, I got a glimpse of how mechanical engineering and architecture can go hand in hand. I shadowed him during a trade show on April 27th. After shadowing Sean Spotts and seeing his work life, I have come to the conclusion that architecture is more than just design, but also has components of engineering, a fact I am sound with.
For years, my activities, personal hobbies, and leisurely readings have led me to have a deep and passionate interest in all things design. From watching
“Most of you view your futures in terms of careers and money. Remember that there is more to life than school and work.” Michael McCullough will remain one of the most influential figures who I am honored to have met. His personal experiences and inspirational stories will surely motivate any person. Thus, his words of advice have helped shape the visions of my own future—a future that I truly hope is filled with an inevitable excitement that opens many doors.
As a designer, I enjoy sketching, sewing, and promoting my brand. As a designer, I am still progressing, however, more is still yet to come.
I try to consciously broaden my career goals and chances by not limiting myself geographically and be able to respond better to market needs. My education experience in AI Hollywood can help me to learn or improve skills that are helpful to my career goals. In the next five years, my goal is to find a position at a fashion company where I can use and take on new challenges over time. In the next ten years, I wish that I could engage in independent studio operation and fashion media.
A year and half has passed since I’ve completed my undergraduate degree. In this time, I’ve had a chance to reflect on my career goals. I am now ready to earn my MBA in health care management. With this degree, I will be able to accomplish my career goals and objectives. I plan to use my master 's degree to help me pursue a career in health care management. My career goal is to become a health care manager in one of my area hospitals. I’ve research the strategies needed to successfully complete a MBA program. I’m motived and fully prepared to start working on my MBA. I ecstatic to embark on this new journey
Get an opportunity to stroll through our design middle, production space and ending store while studying about all the printing companies we’ve got to supply. This course is geared toward aspiring graphic designers, internet designers and digital artists who want to develop a skill set needed to turn out to be knowledgeable graphic
Prior to becoming a graphic designer, Jessica Helfand began her career as an actress who struggled to understand how to become her character, as many aspiring actors and actresses do. In her article, Method Designing: The Paradox of Modern Design Education, Helfand focuses on actors and actresses, and more specifically how their training relates to the education of designers. She writes about a technique which became revolutionary and known for its success, as it helped actors, such as herself, to understand the characters they were portraying.
The book ‘Design futuring: Sustainability, ethics and new practice’ and the author, Tony Fry talks about the time and its relationship with design. He reconceptualise the practice of design. In his view, the design plays an important role in our life. Our capability to prefigure what we create, before the act of creation, makes us human. After all, what we design, design us. Then he talks about the possible way of design futures and figures out the problem of existing in our notion of design, then suggest the sensible suggestion, which could be the solution in our unsustainable world. In his perspective of design is that we must change how we think about design. Fry makes a well-researched, articulate and passionate case for these changes, supporting his argument with a variety of fresh ideas, evidence, examples and philosophic reasoning to make the case for an expanded and revitalized profession of design.
The process of writing this paper helped me define my future goals and objectives. Before I started this assignment, I have no idea what I want to do in the future. I always thought I will just graduate and start working. I originally have no plan of what I am going to do in the future, I kept having the mindset of I can think about this when I’m about to graduate, but through thinking of the goals and objectives, I actually managed to find out what I want to
For the book I took notes, in the end I would remove all the invaluable things from my paper. You can always find more on the internet than anywhere else. I should have probably chosen a book with more writing and a lower reading level. My choice for the interview source was my mom’s friend, Sonja. She worked for 10 years at Missoni, a Luxury Italian brand. She was the head of the design department, her job was pretty important. She visited many places to inspire the next collections. Some people were in charge of designing for big fashion shows. Her job was to draw for clients in the Missoni boutiques. It did help because you could see all the prospective of the jobs in the industry. She told me, “Designer is one of the most important job in the industry. Clients rely on us, we have to draw clothes that will fit the taste and expectations of our buyers.” When you work in the designing department for fashion shows it’s different. To conserve the brand’s image the fashion shows have to be over the top. The meaning by “to conserve a brand’s image” is to keep their reputation clean. Shops and clothes are what make most of the money. Overall my source said to me that everyone has an important job in the industry.