OUGD602 - PPP3 - 1 Week placement at Entyce Creative and Interview at Chester Zoo

This week, I have been lucky enough to experience days in the lives of the fabulous team at Entyce (Chester). It’s the first time I have been placed in an agency that deals mainly with web design, and I was amazed at the speed and efficiency in which Entyce performs.

Have a look at Entyce's Twitter page

Here is there website, where you can find a little more about the wonderful people I have had the pleasure of sharing an office with this week.

I have been busy with trying out designing a website independently and was overjoyed at the positive feedback I got from my colleagues, especially considering I have little background knowledge of designing websites professionally, but the team at Entyce have really boosted my confidence with their constructive criticism. 

The experience has opened my eyes to dealing with creative work in a professional, organised manner, observing how Entyce conduct their talents in their practice has been a very valuable lesson, just from time-sheets to organising meetings - everything runs so smoothly!

Jane, Libby and the team have been so friendly and welcoming and my nerves were soon settled. I am humbled they have taken time out of their busy schedules to be so accommodating for me.

I am now even more excited to graduate from my bachelors and become a professional in this industry because of my positive experience at Entyce.

I created some icons and a couple of images for different blog posts and for their website:

http://www.entyce-creative.com/news/

The image on the left is slightly different to how I designed it, and was altered according to the director.

Although I have had a great experience at Entyce, it has sort of confirmed for me that web-based design really isn't my niche and I would prefer and flourish in a more varied setting and a role that didn't mean so much solitary design time. It certainly wasn't lonely in the studio, but I like to work in a team, preferably. It became clear that I don't have an eye for such constructed design, and definitely sway more toward illustration more so than Graphic Design, after all.

Yesterday, I left my placement at Entyce early as I had my interview at Chester Zoo. It wasn't your conventional one-on-one interview and it was conducted in a series of group tasks. They were a bit unusual (such as creating animals out of drinking straws and sellotape) but I can understand that this was good for observing cooperative skills and initiative. I think it went really well - so now just waiting to hear back. They said yesterday that I would hear back in the same day but I didn't so I called them up today during my lunch at my placement at Entyce and they said it would be sometime this week. I'm excited to hear back!

I have just one more day at Entyce and I'm hoping they'll be able to assist me with my own website for my personal branding. It's quite basic (I have created it on Wix), but I would appreciate their professional feedback.