Aspirations For The Future

Coming from an education in computing from a very early age, it wasn’t the most expected outcome for me to end up in the world of art and design. However I have always considered myself to be a creative personality. I went through 5 years of the art and design education both at school, home and college; Taking GCSE, A level and foundation diploma qualifications. Although I was working in the creative area I was not abolishing my keen understanding and learning enthusiasm for the more technical computing side.

After finishing my art and design foundation earlier this year, I decided it was time to get back in touch with my technical side; not completely swaying one way or the other, I wanted to find a career move that would integrate them both like brotherhood. Web design was the obvious choice for me. After all it was something I had been doing for a many years already as a causal hobby; creating personal websites for to keep in touch with friends and family. Also to give advise, tutorials and personal knowledge to others.

As I’m sure was the same for many people, I had expected to teach this kind of subject in later life. This idea unfortunately did not keep, but faltered quite fast. Taking the Interactive media HND, I feel will keep my options open. It is mainly based towards web design but the skills are transferable into any design career such as, Print design, and advertising. In the coming years I would like to be in a position where I could be self employed doing a mixture of things in the digital design industry producing both interactive and in a print based medium. In the modern world we live in it is vital to be flexible and have transferable skills. This will enable any company to have power over more areas of design industry.

I am going to achieve my goals by using the Interactive Media course to the best of by ability; to get the most out of it I will take several approaches. Aside from my college studies I intend to continue designing and developing websites as a personal hobby. This will enable me to understand and gain experience with industry standard software packages and expand on the knowledge of which I have obtained from attending college and personal study sessions.

When I reach the second year of the course, it could be wise to find some part time work in the design industry, giving me an insight into the running of the digital world. I think this will be beneficial and a great opportunity to find out which route would be best suited to myself. As I aspire to be self employed in this industry I think it would also be advantageous for me to find some freelance work during the course to give me a clear insight into the fundamentals of business in this sector. To start with it would be more appropriate for me to start offering my services to small independent companies or persons for a very low fee if not free of charge until I have built means of an understanding and reputation on how to conduct myself towards projects and clients.