Afterlife 26/01/21

Jack Renwick

During her time period of talking, Jack Renwick spoke of not only her latest works and careers, but mostly in great length about how her journey from a small child through into becoming an extremely successful and well known graphic designer came to be. As well as explaining how even growing up during a time and place where graphic design was not yet known as a subject area, how alternatives can be found to make your way to ideal career choice. Jack originates from Glasgow and has worked on a huge variety of projects over the past 20 years for clients including Amnesty International, British Heart Foundation, eBay, BBC, Nokia, Royal Mail and Stella McCartney and received recognition from most of the world’s most prestigious awards. Discovering that graphic design was something that could be taken as a career later in life than most discover, then eventually being let into Art school where she recieved qualifications neccesary to begin working for others. However shortly after deciding to take the leap to freelance and starting her own design company aptly named “Jack Renwick Studios”. She now works with 9 designers in London.

Jack encourages everyone to display their work, even when they don’t; think it works, considering how others may find it useful, or, with a different pair of eyes may be able to relate it to something else and solve an important design problem. Getting under the skin of briefs and doing your homework on projects, clients and briefs is clearly as important as making the designs themselves, as it seems you can; t make successful and meaning filled outcomes without first learning everything there is to learn about that brief/client.

I found Jack to be a freindly but confident and innovative designer, her life in design has be carved through years of determination and hard work. Coming from a time and place where graphic design was much smaller than it is now, she has managed to place hersefl as a creative director of her successful studio, where she has a team that clearly appreciate her massively along with everything she does.