Some things about placements

First of all, if you have the opportunity to undertake a placement/internship year in your studies as a graphic designer, or any kind of designer for that matter, DO IT!

Why? WHY? I guess you wont know for sure until you’ve done it. But im gonna try and nail a few (of which there are many) of the good points down for you.

+ A diploma probably won't get you a job on its own. Work experience will.

+ You will learn WAY MORE than you ever will as a student

+ You meet lots of nice and more importantly experienced people. The phrase ‘its not what you know, its who you know’ has never become more true whilst on this internship

+ You get to feel dead smug whilst your other shittier peers are back at university

+ Getting paid – you can be -500 pounds rather than -1500

+ Having the opportunity to work on cool shit

+ Getting work published in actual magazines and such, not just your make belief work

I will elaborate on each of these points throughout the course of the blog, which is coming along like a speeding bullet I might add.

The image above is the entrance door to my first internship at a company called 'Wellcreative'. I don't know many offices with a big orange rotating door, but thanks to my internship, now I know at least one.

Ill be back tracking a hell of a lot throughout this blog in order to capture as many aspects of my time here as possible, so if its boring, then you know how it felt tracking bk through all of my photos and memories to create this. Ill try and fill it with as many lovely images as possible because if you are like me, you wont read something unless

1. its really interesting or funny or well written
2. has imagery to back up whats being said so one can understand it better.

My blog will contain none of number 1 and plenty of number 2.

Above is my two female rabbits shagging.

A promise is a promise.

So, this is my first post and I thought I'd start off as I mean to go on by gloating about my success of my placement/internship, illustrated here by the view that greets me every morning as I leave the train station in Amsterdam. Its pretty beautiful and alllllmost takes the edge off having to get up and 6 fucking 30 in the morning.

I have set up this blog to help out students who intend on taking a year out of their studies to embark on a placement/internship year. I got mine, but I know that alot of people had problems, now, 7 months into my internship I have learned alot and want to share my fantastic knowledge of the working world with anyone who wants to look, listen and maybe even learn.