Summer Placement Interview

Today I had my interview for the Graphic Design placement over summer working for the brand Cohorted, overall I felt that the interview went really well and I felt that what job consists of would be extremely suited towards me as a designer and beneficial towards my design practice. The interviewer (Anthony) was one of the managers from the design team for the brand, I felt that what he had to say was really interesting and I learnt a lot more about what the job would include after speaking to him, he went over what I would be doing and general information about the brand.

What the job would include, what I could be designing and general information about the brand and design team:

• The job would involve branding and advertising for the beauty box sneak peaks that promote across the weeks, design for the email elements that they send out to subscribers. It could also include design for the packaging of the products and beauty boxes.
• The design for screen elements include animation design as well.
• They provide templates for everything which you apply the designs to for the specific products or promotions.
• Specific design may be needed for the different subscribers and certain products so creating different design for all of that according to the audience and purpose
• Brands come to them (as they are the UK's number 1 beauty box providers), so whatever is designed also needs to take into consideration what the brand is and the specific products as well as the Cohorted brand image- the brands that come to them include Fenty, Lancôme, Tom Ford, Urban Decay, Benefit etc, also worked with Penguin Books recently. 
• Regular meetings with the different teams to gain feedback, so the design team could have a meeting with the marketing or management team where they go over everything and give feedback on what needs changing etc so it’s very collaborative and interactive within the different teams, back and forth before getting to the final design.
• The job starts off less deadline based- it’s more learning and designing for what is currently being worked on at the time and working alongside what is being created and advertised

Anthony also mentioned that they sometimes provide the opportunity for people that have done a placement to work for them after graduating if they were good at and suited to the job. He also mentioned to not be someone that fades into the background, ask for feedback and be eager the learn and talk to him and the rest of the team whilst designing- really engage and involve myself in everything as much as I can. 

Furthermore, the placement is unpaid and would be up to 2-3 days a week (around 16 hours) and would last a few months.