OUGD502 - Creative Report [SB1] - Who to ask?

Tim Wan

Hi Christopher, 

Thanks for reaching out, always nice to hear from fellow LCA folks. 

How are you finding the course? 

So re: your question about working abroad... 

The experience not only helped me, but it enriched my whole approach and outlook to everything, I totally recommend and can go on for hours about it, from the people you meet, the cultural diversity, the change in lifestyle, the different design principles and sensibilities...  

I went about it through going to a place called Fabrica in Italy. There I met some amazing people, did some cool stuff and had a great life changing 2 years. I recommend you look into it. Let me know if there are any specific questions or things you want answering. 

Hope that helps. 

RE: samples of my work — website to be updated soon! :D But I do mostly editorial, working on books, magazines and printed matter.

All the best, 

Tim Wan

Graphic Design & Art Direction

timwan.co.uk

+44 (0)7845 359 129

hello@timwan.co.uk

Tim was very helpful in talking about his experiences abroad as I am interested in living abroad after finishing university. He talked about an institution called Fabrica which is a design studio that offers a year of training in exchange for you to work for them for the year. It is based in Treviso, Italy and I am very interested in applying for this next year, so after university I can go straight there and continue to learn how to become a successful designer and get a year of industry experience. 

However, apart from short answers I was not able to get a proper response from designers in industry, so I decided to ask in a more informal setting to attract designers that didn't feel they were forced to answer questions.

I decided to look at the reddit for graphic design and ask there, which would attract a broad audience of graphic design hopefuls and industry professionals. 

I got some really good responses from my questions online, and I thought it would be really interesting to get some perspectives from designers that are both amateur and professional to get an insight into how different people work. Here are a couple of the responses I got.

I think my creative report will definitely be unique in the amount of answers I got from different people. I think this will also present graphic design in a different light, as the responses are relatively anonymous so there is no pressure to "look good" or lie to seem more professional.