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Future me week
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22nd January
10:00 to 16:00
20 You will earn 20 silver points for completing this activity.
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Portfolio Review for Product Designers

22nd January 10:00 to 16:00
Your portfolio is a creative project in itself! This day is an opportunity to reflect on your current projects and reframe your portfolio to an external audience of potential employers. This day is designed to kickstart your new year with renewed energy and ambitions for your future!
This activity is offered as part of Future Me Week - five days of exciting opportunities to develop your skills, deepen understanding, gain experience and take steps towards an exciting Future You.

We will begin the day with a talk about portfolios, about how to tackle them and how we use them to communicate our practice, skills and creative approach!

You will print out your key projects and you will work with your peers to review, develop and communicate each others projects.

We will look at some job descriptions of roles both design roles and other roles in the creative industries to consider how you might align your skills and experience to these. You will consider how you might reframe your portfolio to potentially apply to these roles and demonstrate the necessary skills.

You will then create a storyboard plan for your portfolio, making notes of any changes, aspects of the project to include in order that you might work towards developing your portfolio to gain some industry feedback.

Associated Badges:

In A Nutshell...

  • Reflect...on your recent projects and select which projects demonstrate your key skills and are appropriate to your future ambitions
  • Research...your future working context and associated job roles through linked in searches to gain and understanding of the scope of roles in Product Design
  • Understand...portfolios from the perspective of an employer
  • Engage and Collaborate.... with peers to reframe, enhance, redefine and re-communicate your projects to an external professional audience
  • Design...your portfolio to demonstrate your skill and creativity!
  • Earn up to 20 Rise points ... which can be recognised within your degree.

Schedule

  • place 10:00 to 16:00 on 22/01/25 - GM201
    Portfolio Review and development L5 &6
    Many of the students begin to develop their thoughts towards placement from the spring semester. While some have attended the Professional Pathway Sessions, this is the chance to have a focussed portfolio towards a particular ambition.