My animation skills are rapidly advancing, and this is one of the skills that I wanted to develop during my placement year, as I think motion skills are becoming increasingly important to any designers toolkit. Whilst my design skills are developing naturally through using Adobe software daily, a lot of the skills I feel I am advancing in are those vital to any working environment! These involve leadership, communication, time management skills and so much more.
In addition, I get to stimulate my academic as well as my creative side. As someone who did Maths and Geography A-Level, I love having the opportunity to design things about something that is interesting. I have always had it in my nature to help people and it is important for me to use my creativity to do this wherever I can. I find it rewarding knowing that the communications we put out as a team on social media every day, help keep the public up-to-date with the latest weather forecast to ultimately keep people safe, especially in times of severe weather.
My greatest achievement so far It has to be the work I did to help Cactus Café, a Mexican restaurant in Loughborough, to develop their social media platforms. I joined the LSU Enterprise ‘Switch On Stand Out’ campaign, whereby they match students with local businesses to help develop their marketing strategies. Despite starting as a team of 4, it ended up (due to the other students prioritising other projects) being just little old me volunteering my time to help wherever I could!