Posted 28.04.2011 @ 4.46PM
Iunno I find school's pretty useless (except for the piece of paper saying that you're "qualified"). It all comes to industry experience.
Keep trying I reckon! If the companies you're trying to apply never got back to you then try others.
You have about a year experience, you should be fine!
Posted 28.04.2011 @ 4.51PM
Thanks Frieda,
Its great to have some encouragement. Im gonna start applying for internships hopefully that'll get the ball rolling.
Ed
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Posted 29.04.2011 @ 12.50AM
Yo Ed, what's the name of the furniture company in your folio? I find the logo typo hard to read.
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Posted 29.04.2011 @ 9.03AM
Could your location be a problem? or are you applying for jobs interstate?
Going back to school depends on what skills you need. I had a look at your portfolio and felt that your work looked washed out.
Posted 29.04.2011 @ 9.29PM
Yo Plains,
"Sammi" is the name of the furniture co. they are based in tassie.
Posted 29.04.2011 @ 9.42PM
Hehe - I may be "washed out" but I hope not!
Posted 02.05.2011 @ 9.17AM
Not sure on how you've chosen to display your work on your site is the best way for potential employee's to view it, but I love the work in your folio Ed.
Internships aren't easy to get, but well worth a shot. I'm sure one year back in a studio will help you a lot more than going back to do a course again. I'd keep applying for design positions in any case. Best of luck!
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Posted 03.05.2011 @ 10.07AM
I'm a senior designer with no uni, and I am more OCD about the design fundamentals than nearly all of the designers I come across.
A good folio and persistance. Sometimes you just go through a dry patch.
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Which move for an aging junior
Posted 28.04.2011 @ 4.19AM
After a bit of personal advice, hopefully it can be taken on board by others also.
Im a 26 year old with a degree in Comm. Design from Swinburne and about a years experience in one of Melbourne's best regarded studios. Since leaving this position I had been traveling in Europe for a number of years but have more recently returned to Aus where I have been searching for work in Design. Unfortunately no luck. Its been 6 months and I'm itching to get some.
I am thinking of either doing an internship or going back to school and brushing up on some of the tech skills that got left behind over the last few years in Europe.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.