This year our Creative Garden networking event will once again provide students access to a marketplace full to the brim with helpful organisations and professionals. We've compiled a handy list of all attending, along with descriptions about what they have to offer in terms of support, … Read more about The Marketplace at Creative Garden
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Creative Garden – Meet the Creatives
This autumn is your chance to harvest some words of wisdom from our guest speakers at Creative Garden, an event that allows students the chance to gain knowledge and guidance from creative professionals. Build a bigger picture of the range of relevant opportunities available, in order to help inform … Read more about Creative Garden – Meet the Creatives
Brand Strategy: Humanising Business
What happened to innovation and fresh ideas? It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. I sat for seven years in the same seat in the same row of uniform desks, while the boss watched our every move. There were good acoustics in that office, the echo of my name as they talked about me and my request for … Read more about Brand Strategy: Humanising Business
The Creative Garden is Back!
It’s that time again: we’re getting ready for the next Creative Garden at Seed HQ on October 31st, as part of LCB Depot's Design Season 1. Bridging the gap between creative study and creative employment, the Creative Garden is a one-day workshop for students, supported by a raft of professionals and … Read more about The Creative Garden is Back!
Life After Seed: Taylor Crosby
Finding a valuable and useful internship can be a critical step in preparing for your future career. Industry knowledge and job experience are both vital factors employers will look for from applicants. Seed has always been blessed to work with talented students, creatives and interns looking to … Read more about Life After Seed: Taylor Crosby
Love Leicester: Highcross Beacons Project
Here at the Seed Creative Academy, one of our main focuses is to provide unique and authentic opportunities for students to showcase their work, and to experience the creative industries in real-time. Students on our BA (Hons) Professional Studies in Creative Industries course recently had the … Read more about Love Leicester: Highcross Beacons Project
How to Become a Graphic Designer
Behind every iconic logo, movie poster, book cover or business card is a graphic designer delivering a very specific message or idea to an audience. At its core, graphic design is just visual communication that has been creatively and systematically planned to solve a particular problem or achieve a … Read more about How to Become a Graphic Designer
How to Become a Creative Director
Creative directors are the top dogs of design agencies: they are critical to building and maintaining a successful work environment and nurturing the creative talent of their team. A creative director’s main role is to steer the creative vision of an agency and oversee the entire lifecycle of a … Read more about How to Become a Creative Director
Three Cheers for YES Media!
If you’re a young person today, chances are you have experienced, or at least understand, the increasing difficulties in finding employment. Having a varied skillset and knowledge of a professional industry can be vital when trying to stand out from the crowd. This is why, earlier last year, we … Read more about Three Cheers for YES Media!
How to Become a Storyboard Artist
Bullets ricocheting, fists flying and henchmen swooping in from every angle, your favourite action movie’s climactic scene comes together like an R-rated Swan Lake. Each movement is carefully calculated, the choreography mapped out to the second. And who’s behind it? The storyboard artist. A … Read more about How to Become a Storyboard Artist
Mindfulness in Decision Making
What if making more effective business decisions was not about doing and knowing more but about being present? Tracy Prentice explores the concept of mindfulness and how it makes it possible for us to feel more joy, peace and acceptance; helping us become better decision makers and leaders. As I … Read more about Mindfulness in Decision Making
5 Reasons to Use Digital Marketing in Manufacturing
With the whiff of Brexit and Industry 4.0 in the air, you might be a little uncertain about the future of your business, or of the manufacturing industry as a whole. Experts all over are proclaiming prophecies and predictions, but the truth of the matter is that nobody really knows how things are … Read more about 5 Reasons to Use Digital Marketing in Manufacturing