Today’s random blog link is Fliss Quick, an artist, curator and jeweller who is an alumna of the BA course at Goldsmiths Design. Her blog is full of interesting things and you can find it here.
Emma Lamp, stylist: “I learnt at Goldsmiths not to stop at your first idea and push things further”
The paths taken by former Goldsmiths students after graduation are very diverse: for example, Emma Lamp (an alumna of the BA Design course) is now a stylist whose portfolio includes advertising for a variety of popular brands from Mercedes to MTV and music videos for artists such as Mumford and Sons, Natalie Imbruglia, Florence and the Machine, Tiesto, Laura Mvula and many others. Emma has agreed to talk to us about the path to her current career:
How did you become a stylist? How would you advise someone interested in this line of work to get started?
A month of applying for jobs after graduation landed me a job as a Junior Artworker at an online clothing brand. I was copying layouts in InDesign for their catalogue; I hated it. So three months later I quit and decided I really should at least take a risk and try to do what I loved. During my 3 years at Goldsmiths, I’d been doing as much work experience as I could as a Stylist’s Assistant. I started at Men’s Health Magazine, by the end of the 2nd year I was working as an Assistant to the Fashion Editor of Russian Vogue. All of this was unpaid (not even travel expenses) and some days I’d start at 8am and not be finished until 11pm….I didn’t enjoy it all the time, but I felt it was one day really going to help me.
Today’s blog link: Nat Buckley
Today’s random blog link is Nat Buckley (@ntlk on Twitter), interaction designer and developer, graduate of the BA Design course at Goldsmiths and, since graduation, occasional visiting tutor in coding workshops for undergraduate students. Nat’s blog on all things Internet-related can be found here.
Design and Social Science seminar: What was visual data?
The second-to-last seminar of the Design and Social Science series at Goldsmiths is called “What was visual data?” and it will feature Isaac Marrero-Guillamon & Michael Guggenheim (from Goldsmiths) as speakers.
The seminar is, as usual, free and open to anyone; it will take place on April 30, starting 4 pm, in room 137a of the Richard Hoggart Building.
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