Hat-Trick Design Visit

During our trip in London we got to visit some design agencies. I was lucky enough to visit Hat-Trick design. Slightly hung over from the night before at Shellsuit Zombie, myself, Jack Fowler and Mike Mara set off on the tube to get to Hat-Trick. We got their a little bit to early so we decided to grab a coffee. We started to talk about placements and in general our Final Major Projects.

We then walked over to Hat-Trick to buzz in to walked up to the fourth floor. We arrived with out portfolios in hand to hopefully to get some feed back on them, but also to talk about their work and their personal experience from design graduate to getting a job.

The contact that we had been told to ask for was a woman named Alexandra Jurva. We was meet at reception by Alexandra and took into the conference room where there was examples of their work on a table neatly laid out, and awards on the floor of what they have won.

Something that grabbed my eye was a limited edition Thank you poster that Anthony Burrill had sent them, limited edition 2/10, signed by himself. I had a sneaky look at it first, picking up the stock and feeling the weight of the paper. (Yep, the first Anthony Burrill work I had seen in real life, first hand, quality.)

Alexandra then walked back into the conference room and we sat down and immediately starting firing questions towards her. She seemed a bit startled at first, but explained she was slightly rushed off her feet due to a deadline that just popped up. My first question towards Alexandra was "What was her first steps from graduate to design agency? and How did she get it?" Alexandra explained it was from contacts she had from doing placements. Also she said to get her job at Hat-Trick she was lucky. Right place right time. I just never seem to be in the right place at the right time though. She explained that determination and passion will eventually get you spotted.

We then had a chance to look at some of their work that they had done for clients and charities. Some of the like the work for The British Heart foundation was very touching as Alexandra explain it was for children who had lost parents due to heart problems, explaining feelings and emotions that they might have during this difficult time. All the work shown was nice to see first hand again, but also better than looking at a picture, getting to touch the paper.