Creative Futures

On the week commencing on the 4th of march until the 7th I attended the creative futures week at Glyndwr University. The week involved many people who are involved and have much experience in the creative world. Varying from film and gaming to graphic design and illustration. On the Monday the 4th of march I attended my first talk which was ‘How NOT to be a designer’ by Robert Ball. This talk was highly applicable and informative it was also quite humorous. As there were many things in his slides which made the people listening laugh as he took the micky out of designers who design things wrong. The next talk that I went to was the next day on Tuesday 5th of March which was ‘Product Design, Cross disciplinary collaborations…and how chickens helped me!!’ By Peter Hathaway. I was intrigued by the title of this talk to decided to attend, the talk was mainly about Peter Hathaway and how he had become successful himself as a product designer and also how he has worked in the industry. This talk didn’t help me a great deal as it was to do with product design although I could understand a lot of what Mr Hathaway was saying as I did A level Product design. After attending this talk I went to listen to ‘Getting a job in the media’ by Phil Hurst. This talk was very informative and also very helpful. I gained many things by attending this talk like knowing how to approach interviews and also correctly put together a portfolio. Although maybe the talk was intended towards 2nd and 3rd years it’s always good to look ahead. I enjoyed this week as it helped me realise how hard I have to work to reach the places I want to go in my career and also hearing experience from others helps a lot to contribute to my own path. Hopefully I remember these talks in the future when perusing my career.