By: Christian J

Christian J — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:10:39 +0000

I think back to my junior years as a creative. I spent more time driving vans than designing, as I was the lowest paid member of staff in the company.
I also proved within my first few months that I had more talent in my little finger than the existing designer manager. Like many juniors, you come in, work as hard as you can, subsequently making enemies (or should I say, proving the immaturity of other ‘professionals’)! Needless to say it was more important to that particular manager, that I swept the yard in the pouring rain, other than working as a creative – even with an under-spec’d Pentium PC.

By: Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:23:15 +0000

After 40 years of running my own small studio of 10 designers, engineers, and modelmakers in the US, I agree that fostering junior designers is important, but impractical in a small fast-moving studio. Given the amount of reeducation, work that has to be redone or corrected, and the amount of supervision required – the cost of hiring a junior is double the cost of hiring a designer with one to two years of experience.

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