Tutorial Preparation.

1. What is professional/industrial experience?
- An acceptance into a professional environment to train with a current agency.
- A way of learning how the industry works.
- Working on live briefs for clients - having to work to that clients needs and preferences rather than your own.
- A communication between yourself and professional agencies.
- Producing work for mass production - considering production costs etc.

2. Why is professional/industrial experience important as part of PPD?
- Gives us an idea of what we will be venturing into and what the industry is like.
- Gives us chance to prepare ourselves for working in the industry.
- Looks good on your CV - most employers look for employees with experience as they are then able to adapt to the business more rapidly.
- A chance to get used to the type people we will eventually be working with.
- A chance to feed off the professionals, rather than our fellow students.

3. How do you gain professional/industrial experience and what form does it take?
- Spending time working within an agency or alongside an established designer.
- Taking on live briefs and entering competitions.
- Promoting yourself - whether through business cards, an online portfolio, blogs etc.
- Visiting design agencies, spending time in studios and generally talking to designers.
- Email, phone, constantly be getting in touch with agencies and gain contacts.

4. What should you aim to gain from professional/industrial experience?
- More knowledge of how the industry works.
- Knowledge of how that particular agency works.
- An idea of the type of workspace you would like to eventually venture into.
- Contacts.
- Further work.
- A name? - To be recognised as a designer.
- Confidence.