Alex Ostrowski was giving a talk at Salford University. Luckily he had just about enough time to visit us on his way back to catch his train. He brought a big box full of his work and laid them out very nicely across two tables to show us.
He is mainly an illustrator and only graduated last year but has already managed to land himself a place working at YCN.
He was quite a good person to give a talk, obviously only a year older than most of us there was no generation gap or other factors which created a big difference between us and him.
He showed us a lot of his work and talked about the idea behind them while also telling tales of his times trying to find a job.
He was quite down to earth and suggested that that's probably the best way to go about selling yourself.
A good piece of advice he gave was to try and not use too many gimmicks, they can often work against you when trying to apply somewhere.
He said that he only went after the jobs he wanted, the companies that he wanted to work for, which seemed like a fairly obvious but often overlooked piece of advice. I can understand that trying to get your foot in the door may be so difficult that people will often stray into places they don't want to be, just to get in the industry.
A few of us asked some questions about his personal experiences so far but the talk was cut very short when Alex realised he'd missed his train.
whoops.
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