New Blood Festival: GENERALIST>SPECIALIST
Day 4: A round up of career advice for emerging creatives
What does the ever-changing industry's needs look like in the coming years, and how can you best prepare for this?
We've collated some of our favourite piece of advice from our stellar line up of Industry experts at Day 4 of New Blood Festival. Exploring a number of topics from business skills for creatives, routes into Game Design as a creative, to looking at how brands can nurture in-house creative teams.
Each session explored the intricacies of GENERALIST>SPECIALIST in the context of being an emerging creative. Is breadth and diversity of skills more desirable and employable than narrow, deep expertise and craft?
Read on for top takeaways...
Here's a round up of our favourite quotes...
Employers are likely to look at 3 pieces of your work and then go straight to your about section so make sure they know how they can find and contact you!
Anna Green
Remember empathy. Listen to others and think about others because they will end up playing your game.
Games Design: Generalist>Specialist session
Get prototyping and in a maker mentality to get feedback and deliver your intended experience.
Games Design: Generalist>Specialist session
Clients will come to you with one thing - but it’s important to break down the brief, re format it and re-present it so it makes sense to you... Challenging it to be able to get the truths and the real narrative and nuances.
Harris Elliott , Founder, Harris Elliott Studio
Live global but think local. We all live connected to people around the world but we should act for the people in our local communities.
Harris Elliott , Founder, Harris Elliott Studio
Being part of an in-house creative team forces everyone to be Swiss army knives. Having the 'figure-it-out' gene is really important.
Ben Hughes and Sandra Nam, Squarespace
For more creative career inspiration and creative industry advice for emerging talent head to our Inspiration for emerging creatives landing page. We'll also be releasing some of the New Blood Festival 2020 talks in full in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on the New Blood channels for more info.
