Henry Watson

Year of Graduation: 2016 & 2018

  • Course BDes Product Design & MA Design & Applied Arts
  • School Wolverhampton School of Art
  • Nationality British
  • Current job title Lead 3D Designer
  • Current Company Alpha Designs Ltd.

I wouldn't be half as good as I am now, academically or as an individual if it wasn't for The University of Wolverhampton. I went in lost and came out determined.

There's too many to mention and probably some that I will need reminding of! If I had to choose the top three then my number one would be the unstoppable design ethic that was created on the 4th Floor within the School of Art from both my peers and all the members of staff that worked there, there wasn't a single day that I didn't want to be there. Secondly, the study trips to Milan & Eindhoven that I still benefit from even now - it was one of those trips where you hope and pray that the bus brakes down leaving you stranded miles away from any form of normality. Finally, having the flexibility of choosing any direction to take my design projects. I could be coming up with concepts of furniture on a Monday and then a futuristic workplace environment on Tuesday.
Choose a subject that YOU are interested in. Don't be guided by others, I did and ended up changing courses after one semester (best decision I've ever made). Once you are happy, live and breathe your subject.

I'm currently leading a new 3D department in a furniture company. It's only really just taking off as the technology that allows us to achieve what we do wasn't quite capable until recently. I'm still learning every day and every new project has different challenges but I'm hoping that I can begin to introduce some new idea's into the workflow in the next coming months.

Calling myself a designer gives me a responsibility to push and develop new and disruptive ideas. If they don't succeed, I'll keep them in my sketchbook until we are living lives in this world not virtually. As someone once said to me, everything is possible you just have to believe it.

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