informyou@studio.build
As the talk i went to was too the whole graphic design course for all 3 year, so over 200 people at uni it's possible and very likely that the company have receive a large range of emails from our students at this uni as well as general student/business. In effort to stand out from the rest first i intent to send the email from my personal account, my Hotmail instead so it's just lost in the swam of @students.leeds-art.ac.uk email.
Also intent to make the email personal, express my personal issues relating to my practice so even if i don't get an interview the email response will be useful/relevant. The subject of the email will talk about topic listed in the talk to make it obvious i attened the talk as well as took on aborad what Micheal said/listened to it. As i found the talk very inspiration due to th nature fo the main content being about his music interest which related i'm generally intrigued in record sleeves design myself in the email i will discuss either the art work Micheal showed at the talk or either send him some of my work for feedback to ask his option, this will give porfessiona feedbacl from someon in the industry with coudl be very vital to my porgess into this buiness. I could also discuss any of my personal favorite designs and the concepts behind them the glass animal/alt j) as this show interest in his past work but also in the subject of the talk.
For this studio brief my aim is to ask interviews about how the creatives decided on their specialisms or their practice style as this is a something i'm struggling with, getting advice form people who've done this was an aims asking about this should also be relevant. Also advice on how they got noticed/got work so this will be the main body of my email so i can experiment with taking part int he same way to improve my networks. Rather base the first email about an interview straight away as this might seem like i'm only email as i have to i intent to first just ask general advice in a way that will express my design interest in the business personal outside of college work rather than just suing the company as for work i needed to do for a project (suggest as a good email advice).
make it personal
make it interesting
show interest
make it stand out
send things i like
ask for advice
not just using them, generally interested
email address informyou@studio.build
'Hello,
Currently I'm undertaking my a second year as Graphic Design student at Leeds College of Art, last week i attended a talk from your studio (thank you), after the talk i have a range of related question i intended to ask but unfortunate at the time allowed nerves to get the better of me in front of the large crowd, personally i found the whole talk incredibly inspiration, specifically the focus on music and design.
My interest was around worked you'd produce for this industry as well as the discussion about old record sleeve design like the classical Iron Maiden covers ect design relating to how even before thinking about a career path these where admired as amazing piece of art felt very relatable. I've recently had some amazing feedback off another professional in the field that told me to go back to my childhood to explore what i was interested in before i thought literally, practically and overthought everything. To explore these interests to find out what creative path to take, thinking back to my first experience with graphic design was my dads all old heavy metal and 90's rave music records. At the talk hearing another designer talk about the relation of music with graphic design felt made me think about this and how know still it's one of my main area in the subject, an area i'd like explore and learn more about. Last year i took part in the record sleeve design competition Secret Seven, this is probably the work i was most proud of.
One of the questions i wanted to ask after the talk was your opinion on the new Glass Animals album cover. It's a bit of a different cover design as it combines many different style of graphics in one piece of design, but as you said it's better to be different that nice, nice is boring. The concept behind the cover is based off the music direction of the albums content, this has inspired. This article in Creative Review probably explains the concept better than i could.
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/glass-animals-front-man-dave-bayley-storytelling-making-album-artwork-digital-age/
After the talk i'm assuming you're been bombarded with emails for students from my university, but if there was any chance i could ask you a few more questions either over the phone, in person or even a if i could organized a Skype interview whenever you are free? It would literally be 10 minutes and I'm fully flexible around your timetables and any breaks in the day you may get.
Any advice and communication with you would be very beneficial to my studies, especially when developing my practice into my final year.
Thanks again for the talk,
Beth'
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