As part of the course, you will be assigned a mentor from your own discipline or profession; someone who is knowledgeable about current industry practice. The rest is up to you. You arrange to meet your mentor at mutually acceptable times to show work and discuss progress.
The mentor's role is to:
- Act as a guide to, and a general point of contact with, the wider creative industries
- Promote awareness of the importance of teamwork
- Provide a quality control or 'reality check' on your work
- Suggest ways in which you can improve your performance from an industrial or commercial perspective.
Mentors 2011-2012
Nasrat Abdelsaid (Architect)
Je Anh (Studio Weave)
Mike Ayres (Mike Ayres Design)
Tim Beard (Bibliotheque)
Sarah Bentley (Deputy Editor, ARISE Magazine)
Alexandre Bettler (Designmarketo)
David Bickerstaff (Atomic TV)
Andy Cameron (Wieden + Kennedy)
Claire Catterell (Curator, Somerset House)
Lizzie Clachan (Shunt and Royal Court Theatre)
Daniel Charny (curator and designer)
Kat Davies (Fluid)
Arnaud Dechelle (architecture and exhibition design)
Anna Doyle (Create)
Tim Gardom (Tim Gardom Associates)
Joel Gethin Lewis (Interaction, Design and Installation)
Esteban Gitton (Beaucoup Films)
Britt Hatzius (Studio Incite, Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography)
Pete Hellicar (Interaction, Design and Installation)
Peter Higgins (Land Design Studio)
Markus Hofer (Spatial and Product Designer)
Ingrid Hu (Scenography, Pulic Art and Design)
Rolf Knudsen (Studio Roso)
Mark Lawson Bell (Mark Lawson Bell Studio)
Peter Marigold (Prouct Designer)
Vahakn Matossian (Artist and Designer)
Laura McLean-Ferris (The Independent, freelance journalist)
Alex Mc Dowell (Production designer and design philosopher)
Peter Mumford (Theatre Designer)
Jez Paxman (Live Union)
Jona Piehl (Graphic Designer)
Maria Ragan (Exhibitions and Design Manager, Horniman Museum and Gardens)
Rakhi Rajani (consultant; psychology and interactive design)
Jerome Rigaud (Designmarketo)
Craig Riley (Casson Mann)
Thomas Sevcik (Arthesia AG)
Fiona Watt (Set Design, Designer's Formation)
Haiyan Zhang (IDEO)