Professional Reflections
SAM GRAHAM
Account Manager and Creative Lead at Stone2Stone
My product design skills have been of great help for me and my clients, and I have realised that thinking like a creative and understanding the correct process applies to all creative outlooks. Another useful tip; take the time during the course to understand and discuss what process works for you, it’s almost never the same for everyone. You are there to discover what you can create for the world individually, so trust in your own ideas and journey.
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PRODUCT DESIGN Middlesex University Faculty of Science and Technology
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My name is Sam Graham and I am currently an Account Manager and Creative Lead for a B2B Technology Marketing Agency called Stone2Stone. I have always had a creative outlook in life and throughout school and college I knew that I wanted to have a career that allowed me to express myself. My favourite lesson at school was Art; I used to spend hours upon hours with my head in a creative project. Coming out of secondary school, I was unsure of what I wanted to do for a living. Should I go straight into an internship and work my way up to a stable and routine office job? Thankfully for me I decided instead to attend The University for the Creative Arts, where I took a foundation course. The objective of this course was to experience 5
different subjects all based around Art and Design in the space of 2 weeks. You would then choose one to study for the rest of the year. I discovered just how much I love Product Design, which further pushed me to attend the Product Design course at Middlesex University. Coming out of University, I had the opportunity to show my final major project to the world by taking it to market; The Genus, an urn that allows people to keep their loved ones' memories alive by growing them into a bonsai tree. This was spotted at New Designers by the owner of a company called JC Atkinson, who are the biggest coffin and urn manufacturers in the UK. Working alongside the production team at JC Atkinson overseeing prototyping, manufacturing and marketing,
