Textile design careers
Textile designers create patterns for fabrics and materials used in clothing, furnishing or other printed, woven or knitted materials. As well as the 2D patterns used in the textiles, textile designers...
View ArticleManaging Director
Running a business requires skills and experience that are generally not taught as part of form design education and most consultancy owners learn these whilst on the job, often through trial and error.
View ArticleDesigner maker
Operating on the edges of commercial design practice are many crafts-based designer-makers. Bridging the gap between purely artistic endeavours and commercially briefed work, designer-makers design and...
View ArticleTeaching and academic research
Design education is vitally important to the design industry and teaching design can be an alternative or complementary activity to working as a practicing designer.
View ArticleCopywriting
Copywriters are responsible for generating the language and text, or copy, that is used in a particular piece of design, or even across the whole of a client’s written communications.
View ArticleDesign management
Design managers work inside non-design businesses to oversee all the design related activity commissioned by the organisation.
View ArticleProject management
Design project managers and account managers carry multiple responsibilities and are a vital part of any design project.
View ArticleProduct design careers
Product designers have a huge influence on the form, function and style of many of the objects we use in our daily lives – everything from kettles to telephones to televisions – as well as creating...
View ArticlePackaging design careers
Packaging designers, at different stages in their careers, share what it's like to be a packaging designer and design the structural shape or packaging graphics.
View ArticleInterior design careers
Here's how three very different interior designers got where they are today.
View ArticleGraphic design careers
A career as a graphic designer can take many different flavours because graphic design touches so many areas of visual output.
View ArticleFashion and textiles design careers
The fashion design industry is broad and varied with opportunities to work in many different areas, but it is also very competitive and over-subscribed, so entrants should seek to gain as many skills...
View ArticleBrand design careers
Brand design is not a single discipline, nor does it relate to a single aspect of a client’s business. Instead, brand design reaches far and wide into an organisation, pulling together all the...
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