PPD Year 3

Studio Contact: Turner Duckworth

http://www.turnerduckworth.co.uk/large.html

Over the Easter I had a studio visit over the day that Tuner Duckworth were doing a speech at the Cheltenham Design Festival but I hoped that I would be able to go to the studio while I was in London. Unfortunately I never heard back from them, but like Parker Williams, they are right next to Barlow and Doherty (on Barley Mow Passage) so I hope to be able to get the chance to go and see them, it may be more beneficial to wait until my portfolio is finished before trying to get an Internship there!

Studio Contact: Parker Williams, London

http://www.parkerwilliams.co.uk/

Parker Williams is another leading branding and packaging design studio in London. Interestingly it is the next building down from Barlow and Doherty (where I did the internship over the summer) and next to Turner Duckworth.

I got in contact with Kate Bradford the MD to see if there was a time on Monday the 29th to go for a studio visit however they said that they were incredibly busy with a few looming deadlines so unfortunately couldn't see me, but that I should contact Sun branding Solutions.

I am going back to Barlow and Doherty over the summer so I'll email again and see if I can drop by.

Studio Contact: Ziggurat Brands

http://www.zigguratbrands.com/

This studio is in London and near Kings Cross train station. I was going to London and booked off an extra day so that I could visit them. Like Big Fish, some of their packaging designs I have loved and followed for a while without knowing that it was them!

I sent them an email and got this in return.

I sent them a PDF of my portfolio and never heard anything in return from this and never chased them up. So I am going to try again when I know that Ill next be down in London as I would love to be able to meet them. Especially because on of my briefs is branding and packaging a range of home made pies - and Ziggurat brands did the branding and design for hugely successful Higgidy pies...a design that I am using for inspiration / a basis and a starting point for this brief.

Studio Visit: Et-Al, Oxford

Being in Oxford it is very close to where I live. Etal is a small but very well established design studio run by Phil Cleaver. He showed me his portfolio and a couple of designs that he was currently working on (which was a huge library of design in their meeting room, incredible work and such a large range! I ended up staying there for over an hour and a half! It was fascinating hearing all bout his work, carrer, and how he got to where he is today. Overall it went really well and he really liked my portfolio as well has giving me tips and advice for future and in my work.

He also mentioned that one should never leave an interview / studio visit without getting at least on more contact (something that John has also said to us), and Phil said that when I have finished my course and I have finished my portfolio that he is going to put me in contact with some one at Pentagram! extremely exiting.

At the end of the meeting he offered me an internship there over the summer. He said that he likes interns to work for at least 4 weeks so they have time to work on a whole project and also so they have something to add to their portfolio. So I am going to do at least 4 weeks there, starting July 8th and see how it goes!

These are the emails;

This is some of the work that Et-Al have done;

Studio Visit: Big Fish, London

This is one the studios I wanted most to work for, I love their work and insodently some of their packaging designs I have loved and taken notice of long before I knew that it was Big Fish who designed them, for example the packaging for Dorset Cerials and the Gu (branding and packaging range). I had arranged to meet Pernille at 3 and to have a look through my portfolio. I found out that she had been an intern at one point and had managed to secure a job from it. Big Fish have roatating interns over the year for 1-2 weeks each. The company itself is quite large (about 50 people) but there were lots of different sections. They had a whole different room / area for the web designers (about 15 - 20 people). The studio itself was amazing, very open and overlooking the Thames. There were about 10 actual designers, a different area for photoraphy and meeting rooms. Incredible space and just made me want to work there even more! I showed her my portfolio then for the remaining half an hour we talking g about design and the type of stuff I am into and what Big Fish does. This is definitely the type and size of studio / company that I want to be working for, I did let her know that I really wanted to be able to secure a place as an intern at some point over the summer.

She asked me to email her the dates that I was around over the summer, this was the email I got back from her.

Below are some of the amazing work that Big Fish have done.

Studio Contact: Big Fish

I had initial contact with Tim Pearce after contacting Big Fish via their website. I never heard anything back so by before my trip to London I rang the studio and got put through to Pernille who is incharge of all the internships and managed to book a studio visit with them for Tuesday 8th April.