I'm Miguel I'm from Portugal and I study at LCC. The course is Graphic and Media Design
and now I'm doing an internship at Pentagram. I'm Marion, I study at LCC and
I'm French originally but I've lived in Amsterdam all my life and I'm working as
an intern for Pentagram. The first time I think I heard about Pentagram was when I
attended a talk by Marina at LCC she was a guest lecturer for one evening
and she just talked about her work her creative process yeah that was very
inspiring. My name is Amber Duke-Cohan, I'm from Watford
I'm studying MSc Cosmetic Science at London College of Fashion and I'm doing
my internship at Superdrug and I'm a Product Technologist. So I'm Jenna
Wellbeloved and I'm a Senior Product Technologist within the own brand
department at Superdrug and I've been with the company for 10 years. So my
daily responsibilities include reviewing and approving products at different stage
of the development process. I keep track of the audits for all our factories. As time
goes on throughout my internship I get more involved in projects and Jenna
passes more things over to me to help her with. As my confidence grows in what I'm doing
then more things get handed my way.
My name is Cem, I'm working as Gallery Manager at Narrative Projects but I'm
also studying at Central Saint Martins in the BA Culture, Criticism and Curation
course. My name is Daria Kirsanova I'm a founder and director of Narrative
Projects, a commercial gallery in central London. So on Facebook they
had an open call for an internship that's how I applied and I became the
intern over summer and then it turned into a job. I think London is quite helpful
to find jobs - there is a productive spirit in the city that's why I feel
like that really motivates me and it is the same in the campus as well
LCC has brought me a lot of technical skills I think and conceptual skills in
terms of developing a concept because we have amazing facilities like the
letterpress or litho plates, screen printing and all of these facilities are
amazing I think to really practice, to make good work
Work differs from university life in a way that it's a lot more fast-paced, a lot
more structured, which I do like, I'm a lot more productive with my day because
of it and I've realised how much I can achieve in a day
In school it is almost like a safety net so it was really important to learn in
the field from the people who are actually working in the arts. You dive
into the deep end. Cem was very proactive I must say.
He has introduced some ideas for the public programme
and talks and he was very much working hard on making it
happen - and it was his initiative
There is one particular client that is so big and because it's such a
well-known brand I think it was really exciting to be working on something that
you know is going to have a very big impact. That was a new thing for me
getting to work in such a big scale
London College of Fashion careers helped a lot in putting us in contact with
companies. My best advice for students looking to do an internship would be
100% do it and don't be afraid to reach out to companies because more often than not
people are willing to help. My advice would be to get a part-time job if you
don't already have one because that's something that we definitely look for
when we're interviewing students. It's good to see what sort of skills they've
got from having a part-time job. The amount of people we meet here it just
starts to grow our network of people we have in the industry and beyond looking
for a job I think also just when you're looking for advice I think when I come
back to University I know that I can contact some colleagues at Pentagram to
ask them for some feedback. I feel like now having worked in industry I
appreciate it more and it's just grown my passion for what I do. I would
really advise everyone to try to work at the same time while they're studying
because it's kind of like a head start in your career and you learn a lot in
the field, especially my subject, so it kind of both helps your studies and it
also helps you after your studies too