PLACEMENT YEAR ABROAD: DUBAI
Start Up: CUSTOM 2 YOU
Product Designer & Junior Business Developer
During my time as Junior Product Manager/Business Developer, together with my boss and mentor, Thomas Stumpp, we established a new company. That alone taught me about all the different aspects of launching a business and the steps and skills it takes to develop and make it successful. Some key transferable skills I developed were teamwork, creative solutions, problem solving, negotiation, an entrepreneurial mindset and organisational skills. I refined my graphic design skills by using Photoshop as my primary medium to produce a line of customisable sports and sailing bags for our new start up brand Custom2You.
Skills:
I DEVELOPED
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Adobe Graphic Design Skillset
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Brand Identity (Logo Creation, Idea Generation, Concept, Art Direction)
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Product Design and Development
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Leadership
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Team Working and Strong Communication
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Problem Solving
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Resilience
Building a company from scratch
SITUATION, TASK, ACTION, RESULT, REFLECTION
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S: I was responsible for overseeing production as well as work alongside our web designer
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T: Design and produce a line of customizable sailing/sports bags and build a website.
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A: I visited production and discussed our ideas for our start up brand then once they were on board we went ahead, and I started to create the official line of bags for the website and for production to make.
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R: After lots of hard work, creativity and collaboration, my team and I achieved this brief.
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R: Looking back now, I always feel the process is more rewarding than the achievements.