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Industry live briefs

Creative Shift live briefs help students develop essential skills for the creative industries.

Our live briefs provide you with the opportunity to enrich your portfolios and expand your networks. You can also gain invaluable industry experience to help build your professional profile.

We work closely with industry partners to co-design our programmes. This will give you access and insight into a range of professional environments. Giving you the opportunity to shape your future career in the creative industries.

We aim to create a supportive community, bringing together students, staff and industry. All our partners are committed to working towards more diversity in the creative industries.

Get in touch with us at [email protected].

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Previous live brief projects

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    Work by Katherine Francombe for the Creative Shift x NOW x venturethree collaboration

    Live brief with venturethree and NOW

    UAL students reflect on storytelling collaboration with Creative Shift, venturethree and NOW

  • A dark wooden table takes up the whole image. At the very top of the image there is a wooden cutting board with cut orange slices. To the left of the image there are two bowls, each with a colourful retro print napkin in the centre. The middle and bottom right of the image feature a poster printed with various fruits and vegetables, and the top of the poster reads “My Likkle Kitchen”. On the right next to the poster there is a wooden spoon and a gold whisk.
    Yeshen Venema,

    Home: Creative Shift x not just a shop  

    Creative Shift and not just a shop came together to commission students from University of the Arts London to design a range of homeware inspired by the theme ‘home’ …

  • 5 people sat round a table with microphones and headphones. They are all looking at the camera and smiling.
    Women+ of Colour in Leadership podcast recording, 2022 | Photography: Creative Shift, Ali Mohammed

    Women+ of Colour live brief with Hope&Glory and LinkedIn

    Podcast host Debra Chosen spoke to UAL students about their experiences on this live brief project, the impact it had on them and their advice for anyone considering applying to the next live brief opportunity.

  • A woman with long hair reading a book called 'Invisible Women'
    Image: Zahraa Karim

    Women+ in Leadership live brief case study

    To give you more of an idea about the live brief, how you can balance it with your studies and where it can take you, UAL graduate Zahraa Karim writes about her experience of the process