Enterprise Task 1

Some of the areas of design that I could think about going into...

Education 
Exhibition 
Leisure Industry 
Sales & Marketing 
Tourism 
Charity 
Technology 
Art & Design
Food & Health
Health and Beauty 
Music 
Retail 
Medical/ Pharmaceutical
Publishing

The one that immediately stood out to me is music but publishing is another area I want to look into. I will evaluate my skills and interests and how I could utilise these and apply them within design in relation to the 4 P's...


Product
Graphic designer, I will look into how different studios and designers promote themselves as products and write a short paragraph about myself including my values within design (environmentally considered, form follows function, communicative, effective etc). This should add value to my services / product as well as a higher level of credibility, and better idea of who I am as a designer.

"A product barely exists unless its value or features are described in some way or another."

Price 
The music industry is extremely competitive and with lots of young designers looking for opportunities to get their work out there pricing the job will be a significant learning curve. I will get in contact with a few people in industry to find out how they work out their contracts to make sure neither me or the client are being ripped off.

I need to take into account whether I am valuing the work on the amount of hours I have put in or based on its physical presence, I don't want to under-price my work and therefore my skills as a graphic designer as this will affect the public perception of design and disregards the years of study into the subject, and damages my own integrity.

Place
I will need to think about where I want to be in relation to how my work is seen, where I meet and discuss work with clients and the overall persona of my design identity. I will think about a range of different environments that would push me into my desired area of graphic design.

Some of the areas I could look into,
- Studio space
where will it be, will I need this space, will it be possible to work from home and what will the benefits be either way? How does it represent me as a designer?

Online Resources - 
A good way of getting work out there but how can I separate my work from that of others, do I want to use websites like Behance / Flickr or Indexibit - what are the pros and cons of each?

Promotion
Printed self promotion, how will it be seen. Could think about how the music industry utilises promotion to push their companies and work in the same context showing what I have to offer through print.

Could send out mail-shots to different design companies with information about my skills and aspirations as a designer to make a change from the standard email from a student wanting to get some experience.