Visiting Professional: Lee Goater LX

Lee is a freelance designer from Shipley. He came in today to talk to us about the real design world.

Inspiration/Clients that Lee has worked for

• Design Tomato- Concrete Poetry
• Neville Brodie
• David Carson
• Armin hofman, Joseph Muller Brockmann, Emil Ruder
• GTF
• John Maeda
• Alan Kitching (Maps)
• BBGDB
• Melle Hammer (A)
• David Shrigley
• Martin Parr (Hepworth)
• John Pawson
• Lacoste
• Playstation
• Bramley Baths
• NSCD
• Munro House
• Leeds Museum Women Work War
• Ross graduate - Barnbow Sans

 Lee's Design Work

Coins

Faces

Shapes

"Do Charity Work"

"If you can get people excited about your work- they will want to get involved"

"Gotta do a bit of merch these days"

Tips From Lee

Start a project with 'What do you want?'

Time : Always double the time

Don't free pitch

Ask shit questions (everyone else is probably thinking the same)

Know the audience

Don't design for portfolio

Keep some work offline- so when you go to an interview there is something extra that they haven't seen

What Did I learn

Don't be afraid to put yourself out there/ask for things

Work with as many different people as you can

Send things to people (get yourself noticed)

Experiment

Always have 'hobby projects' on the side. Just little ideas that you have- Do them! Have Fun!

Overall, this talk made me realise that I should never be afraid to ask or approach someone about something. Everyone was in the same position at some point. Be confident.