Week 1 _Career Project

This week we was given a research project on the different jobs available in the graphic design industry.  We was put into groups.  There was fourteen people in ours.  We was then all given a term to do with graphic design.  My group got given TYPOGRAPHER.  We wad three days to research typographer and present a presentation to the rest of the year.

We had to say, what a typographer was? how do you become one? how do you get a job? Salary? etc.

We also had to have a poster that showed all this information on it.

We then had to think how we would present this TYPOGRAPHER presentation.

  

Using books and the internet as a group, we found alot of information on a typographer and I presented my research to the rest of the group.

As the groups where very large, we decided collectively that we would split up into smaller groups and split the presentation up into these: What a typographer was, what a typographer is now and what a typographer will become.  This way we found it easier to collaborate ideas.

I was in the group what a typographer was, therefore I looked at the past of typographer and found that Bruce Rogers was Americas first known typographer of the 2oth century.  However in the UK the term typographer was referred  to someone who worked with type: basically a book designer.  I looked at  the work of  Bruce Rogers, Jan Tschichold and Marinetti who as a typographer where all influential designers with typography.  Tschichold with his asymmetrical designs and Marinetti's experimental work.

The presentation went well.  I placed my research on the wall, like a timeline.  We then placed a table and chairs in the middle and got the audience to walk around us as we spoke about the term typographer.  I was the first to speak and I'm normally quite nervous about giving presentations but I spoke clearly and I throughly enjoyed doing our presentation. 

I learned alot in this project, learning new things to do with different areas of graphic design and I thought it was a good project to get us back into the swing of things after a long summer.

I don't think a typographer is an idle job for me, at this stage I'm keeping my options open until later in the year, when hopefully I will find my specialism.