Enterprise Evaluation

The Enterprise and Innovation module has given me a good insight and understanding into my future and business opportunites. It is easy to run along with the degree programme and forget that we are in a little bubble and there is a huge design world out there waiting for us. This module has allowed me to build confidence and awareness of the realities of working as a Graphic Designer and the huge competition that is out there and has gave me the ability to be more employable against my graduate collegues.

I found the tasks quite difficult as to source what weaknesses companies had and compare myself to these companies as we are in opposite ends of our design path. Although they linked with the lecture well and backed up what I had already learnt I found it difficult to apply these. Also the written side of this course has always been a downfall of mine therefore I didn't enjoy the written summaries for the tasks.

For the final aspect of the module we sourced a group together based on our joint interests in the area of design in which we'd like to work in and then looked at our skills base and specialisms were very broad therefore enabling us to create a multi-disciplinary design studio which is the type of studio I would like to work for. Our group presentation came together well in the end but was a struggle to find time for us all to meet due to optional modules crossing over and the mass of holidays/ bank holidays etc. Although our meetings were very productive and we managed to get a lot done. I took on the role of sorting all the finances, legal side and resources for our studio and found it difficult to access information without actually setting up a real company. Luckily my relatives have a lot of experience of setting up their own companies which they could then direct me where to access the right information. A lot of websites needed and information on legal services were provided by Bridget in the lectures and this proved to be highly useful within the work i needed for the presentation.

This Module has definately gave me a few pointers in how to set up my own business or just get myself out there into the design world. I really enjoyed learning about other companies and how they started up, I think its given us all a lot of hope to where we could end up.