I have recently began to be interested in web design and found it more and more interesting to work with, creating more digital work across the web media. Numiko were something different to that though, they were completely different in the work that they created and the style they had as a web design company. Everything they created looked like it was a print product, but on the web. This is because they use graphic designers within their team. They have a team of graphic designers to come up with the concept and generate ideas and to create the artwork for the sites, which then gets passed on to the web team which creates the website, by having the two teams that work together they create some amazing websites.
After seeing the presentation and they work they have done, i was really interested in the company and thought it would be a great opportunity to work with them and get some experience, it would also be in the web design field, which isnt my main field of design but an area i am interested in.
I sent them an email about it all and asked if i could be considered for an internship and if i could visit the studio. I got an email back the same day with the reply of yes to coming and visiting the studio and i would have a discussion / interview about the placement whilst there.
This was great for me, the second time i have put myself out there and its paid off. So i put together a presentation, just slides of work with a bit of information about each project.
When it came to the day of the interview, i printed off some business cards and took my CV, so i could give it to them at the end, also putting all this onto a CD to give them, made sure they didn't loose any details etc.
The interview went great, it was just me and the head of design and it was a really casual discussion about my work. I spoke through my presentation, explaining the different projects and the ideas behind them, talking about the processes and other things involved within each project. As i was talking through the presentation, Matt ( the guy who was interviewing me) would say what he thought about the work and ask me more questions about it.
At the end of the presentation he gave me some feedback on it all. He said that he really liked the work i had shown and thought that it showed a wide range of capabilities with what i could design and the areas that i could design within. he particularly liked the projects with the added illustration within and the photo montage projects, they would be skills and assets that would work well with working for them. He said that in terms of the presentation he thought it could have been better if i showed less projects but went more in depth with them - taking 3 or 4 slides to show every part of the project and the different aspects of it instead of having more of a brief overview.
But he was still impressed with my work and we spoke more in general about my course and Leeds for design in general, which was interesting to get his opinions and views on the area for graphic design and what he thought about the other unis around us. I also found out about is background as a designer too. Through all this discussion i got a real insight into the world of a graphic design outside of university and what it would actually be like when i left uni and got a job within design.
At the end of the interview i was offered an internship for 2 weeks within the summer break. We were going to sort dates out at a later date over email.
I was really happy with the result of this and it did again boost my confidence within myself. This was the second placement i had gone for and got it, so i must be doing something right in order to be getting them. Also the best part of this was that it was at a web design company, which i would of never thought about approaching in the first place, let alone getting an internship from them, so this was the best news for me.
Now i have 2 placements over summer and looking forward to both of them!
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