Professional Practice Summary
Professional Practice 7   Throughout the semester for Professional Practice, I have learned various skills and insight into the creative industry through speakers. I have also learned some of my own strengths, weaknesses, and how those could be incorporated or effect the career I have planned for the future. The brief, Platform for Joy, was a struggle as the brief was vague and open and I am personally new to traveling by train as well as the culture that surrounds the stress and joys of rail journeys.   In this class, we learned about networking and how to brand ourselves as well as our art style, to use it to our advantage possibly when finding a job later on in life. We learned about the harsh realities of the industry, but how we must become confident in our own abilities creatively and in ourselves to make our own place in the industry. A lesson we have all learned is to always save what you have, whether it be the skills you learned along the way or work you have created from the past. Something can always be learned from it, even if we determine it’s not our best or a mistake. Tying into this point, it doesn’t matter whether you start tradionally or visually, the same principles apply to both and either can be heightened by the knowledge you aquire.   No matter how you started, or what exactly you are practicing, we all face challenges within the industry and I would argue that the biggest step is finding a job that has exactly what you want out of it. However, with what I have learned in this class, if I work on my style, brand it as myself and show how unique I am or could be, I could create my own door into the creative industry.
