OUGD602: Asda Placement Enquiry

I emailed Clare from George Home because I had seen people from other courses do placements for ASDA and commercial design for products is something I am interested in so I thought a placement there would be good to do. I am still waiting on a response but I do think that it would be more useful to me to fulfil a placement after university, over summer that way I can give my full attention with it without having to divide my time between my job and uni work especially if it's a 9-5 type placement. I want to be able to invest all my time into it. I think after uni I'm going to spend my time going between long term placements to gain experience before going into an actual job.   

OUGD602: Things To Do With My Shop & How To Expand It's Reach

I could print projects with  Moo. Take pictures for Instagram, get it touch with them and feature them if i photograph them really nice. more effective would be, package them up real nice send them to head of marketing at moo. Contact address:

Rowena Cumner.
MOO Print Limited,
2nd Floor,
20 Farringdon Road,
London,
EC1M 3AF

Online feedback is important.

I could sell products b to b - which means sell them the designs business to business, goal to try before end of the year - wrap magazine looking at who they're following on insta - send samples, do not allow them to arrive battered go that extra mile.

I had a feature on depop last year and previous years. I think they were featured because depop was just starting out and my photographs had the very simple minimalistic background with white so it fit the aesthetic they were looking for on their featured page. I got notifications daily and updates on purchases and features. I had sold in bulk to a beauty blogger and for christmas presents to put in stockings.

The best sale period was over summer because it's when I was the most active online, I could make my social media presence strong especially on Depop to excel in sales and revenue.  My worst sale periods are when I am focusing on "real life" more than online so it drops because I'm not constantly reuploading products and refreshing them onto peoples timelines.

My shop sales have fluctuated a lot this year because of how much I work and have to concentrate on third year my shop has been put on the back burner but I need to focus more on it after uni and will continue to grow it and create new products.

I still randomly gain sales from Etsy.

OUGD602: Networking in casual situations - Uber

I had an Uber driver today that made small talk such as "what do you do at uni?" I said Graphic Design and am interested in social media and he gave me his business card and said to get in contact with him after I graduate. He runs an online business. I then asked if he has two jobs, being an uber driver and his online store as one and he said he has three. He also has a small shop, his online business and drives ubers along with doing college. He said his plans are going to Dubai in 6 months and he has a lot to think about. He runs all his social media channels and his marketing by himself which means he saves money on his business. He said Google always email him trying to charge £700 to be on the first search for the key words whereas he said he is already on it without having to pay the £700 p/m. It was an inspiring small conversation. I always find it super influential when people say they balance careers and education, let alone multiple business ventures so that was a nice encounter and simple networking. Just talking to people helps it means you can network wherever even in social situations not just networking specific events.

OUGD602: Time Management - To Do List

I organise my time by writing lists to do lists for the day or I write weekly plans too, an example of this is:

OUGD603:

- Redesign for an unusual audience
- Need to do a blogpost before every brief titled - brief and write it out formally
- Buy big folder, start printing design boards
- Finish collaborative brief
- Collaborative brief for external project

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Go To For PPP:

- Tetley
- YSP
- Leeds Art Museum
- Website
- Social Media
- Self branding
- Contact Duke Studio


Here I have just written tasks I could potentially do. Some are critical and some are for if I have spare time or need to fill the week with other things such as visits for PPP etc. I find this helps me organise my time because I can decide whether to be lenient or not depending on how much time I have around my working schedule. It's filled with places to visit, things like buying stuff for projects and actual projects that I could complete.