jiazhi cao's blog

 Textbook studio talk by Vicky Carr On the 27th of January, Vicky Carr came to have a talk with us. She is a graphic designer and also an educator who owns a 1/2 textbook studio based in Salford. During this talk, she shared her experience with us. Most of the work in her textbook can be divided into 4 parts-- studio projects( mostly make with friends, get creative work), commercial work( work for clients), education( holding lectures, talk, workshop with universities), and Risograph Collective. Risograph is photocopier print in different colours, use for producing posters, zines, publications... Her talking giving me the idea of collaborating with others, reproducing my work can benefit collaborators and myself, which could be a good option in the future. This talk showed me how working with others will work in future, quite an useful advice for everyone.

 Sophie Traynor was having a great talk to us on January 20th, as a freelance photographer, she started her freelance career in 2016. Here she gave us an experience that nearly model is working during that time, personally that a piece of useful advice to remind me watching the time and date. Another useful experience on how to start being a freelance photographer is working with a blogger. Nowadays people especially young people prefer social media to get information rather than magazines. As a photographer who is new to work to get fame or let more people know about you is quite important to the job, a blogger is a great choice for the photographer, they will need someone professional to shoot their portrait or document their life to post on social media, this could be a direction after graduate or part-time job.