The last couple of weeks I've been running work experience alongside my own work. It was actually really fun and I think at a very basic level we covered a lot of ground.
I gave them the background information for a relatively small project we are currently working on, and set them the task of coming up with their own design.
I couldn't put her on a train to Hemel Hempstead, so instead we went for a walk around Fitzroy square gardens and I did my best to explain what to look out for during a site survey. As she was from Germany and hadn't been to London before I told her to pick a place she wanted to visit as a tourist and then go and do her own survey. Luckily she picked Regent's park which is just down the road.
When she got back we made a list of her favourite hobbies and considered how each one could become an element of a public outdoor space, and began sketching them out.
We looked at 1 and 2 point perspective, axons, sections and more expensive styles.
I talked her through the basics of Sketchup, and a few minutes later she was drawing quite complicated things with textures and layers.
Then we edited a few images in Photoshop and arranged them in InDesign. After a day of placing text and graphics she had fairly comprehensive design package that she would be able to present at school and develop on her own time.
Images to follow...
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