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How to Get a Job as a Graphic Designer

Posted by on Jun 27, 2009 in Design Articles

Just the other day I received a question on Twitter from Adam at Design4Love: “Hi.. how are you? Do you have any tips for me how to get into the UK design industry (Other than sending applications to agencies). Thanks!” Which got me thinking about how difficult it was for me and some of the fellow graphic design students I studied with to get a job in the design industry back in 1999 (yes that long ago!) straight out of design college. I snapped up a job with a Central London design agency in Soho within 2 weeks of leaving college but looking back it wasn’t really the right job for me then. Though just 13 months later I changed positions and worked for a great design agency based in London Bridge and learned a huge amount as well as working on lots of different types of projects as a designer. Anyway competition was fierce then BUT the amount of graphic design and other design courses available in art colleges and universities up and down the college has grown hugely since then. So here are a few tips on (like Adam asked) “how to get into the UK Design industry” The Portfolio: Having a great design portfolio is a...

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