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After one year of being a graduate, here I am starting a blog on my own website. Finally beginning to feel my design career is starting and I am finding my design aesthetic and style.
Exactly 381 days since I walked across the stage to collect my first class degree in Nottingham I am beginning to think the design world is more than just a degree. Its experience. learning. practise. and well more practise.
I started the summer with a cookery course in the Alps (a graduation gift, although maybe it was a hint that I should learn how to cook edible food rather than burnt cakes / just pasta.) What followed was the best year of my life.
I started out by travelling the whole of summer 2015 to Gran Canaria with my family and then on to New York with Luiz.
New York is the most vibrant city I've been to and I love going and finding more secret places and exciting stores every year. I'm addicted to the city; I am born a Yorkshire lass but the bright lights of the world's biggest cities beckon my name and I think in the next few years I will end up joining the city lot.
I set off to Sainte Foy on the 19th December unaware of the people and experience I would treasure for the rest of my life.
WORK.SNOWBOARD.PLAY.SLEEP.REPEAT.
I lived by this statement for a whole 5 months whether the snow was powder, ice or not even there! I got to design plates every morning and night and board the mountains all day every day.
I survived the season (only one black eye and slight concussion) and got to snowboard on christmas day which is a rarity. I perfected my speed and can now off piste and, well, stay up on my board for most of the day.
I met amazing guests who pushed me to make better tasting and looking dinners and desserts but I also met the most amazing group of people. I am sure I have found friends for life who shared my love for the mountains, life and travelling.
I became myself and found that design was in me, I could be anywhere and yet my sketch pad was full and ideas/designs were always swirling in my head.
Coming home in April was a shock! I immediately set up my website, online portfolio, job searching and a sketch-a-day challenge. On the way Frida arrived at our doorstep; she is our adorable, playful beagle and has become a part of the Sollitt family; enjoying our eastender evenings and late lazy mornings.
Following several job interviews at local design firms, I've decided to become a freelance designer/creative consultant. I have been commissioned as a design consultant for a firm, based in London, for a year! FINALLY IM A DESIGNER!
I always say what you want will always happen in the end and one year into my adult life and Ive packed so much experience in I can't wait for the next year!
Here is the start of my blog ... It will take you through the life of a design graduate living in the North and dreaming of the bigger, bright lights of the future. Welcome to my life; lets figure it out one design at a time.
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