Task 2: Summary

In the next few years, I hope to progress to a stage where I can be freelance, preferably with a group of like minded designers with similar goals. I hope to stay within the U.K for at least the younger years of my career, I would not feel comfortable leaving the familiar environment of my own country in the formative few years of my working life. 

An important factor to consider when contacting potential employers or clients, is their ethical stance. I believe it is an extension of everything we have learnt thus far about being conscious designers, considering every last detail of a piece, to go on to consider the method in which it is produced and look for sustainable options. I would not want to work for or with someone who wasn't open to at least considering an environmentally sound option in design production.

The current economic climate is still in a state of recession, and being a student I am happily avoiding a lot of the repercussions of this. However, when I leave college to go into industry there may still be difficulty finding work. With the economy as it is, commodities such as art, design, music, literature anything considered luxury will be the first things to be hit. Hopefully this trend would have died off, and spending would have began to pick up again by the time I leave university. Coming back to my previous comment however, a sustainable option in design is not only good for us as a civilisation, but good for keeping the costs down too. 

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