1. By attending craft shows like MADE LONDON, network to find consumers and suppliers in their niche industry, and investigate trends, markets, and prices
2. Demonstrate abilities at craft fairs and exhibitions. Take pictures of designs for a portfolio, websites, and catalogues.
3. Learn the necessary software skills to create websites, promotional materials, and exhibitions with other designers in a shared studio, cooperative, craft guild, or artists' organisation. Enter competitions and submit funding requests.
As a ceramics designer for a big industrial company, you must:
1. Communicate with the client, understand the brief, and follow it to provide designs for mass manufacturing.
2. Choose acceptable materials and stick to a budget, for example, monitor production for a new collection to ensure the brief is satisfied.
3. Choose the ornamental methods and glazes
4. Perform market research to learn what the competition is producing and how successful the current lines are.
To become a ceramic designer you have to keep certain things in mind:
1. Design and create unique items
2. Choose the right materials for the design
3. Clay can be manually worked, tossed on a wheel, or moulded.
4. Assemble items, glaze, embellish, and fire kilns
5. Ready the piece for sale and display
6. Sell items directly from a studio, through markets or craft fairs, online, by mail order, or through specialised craft stores and galleries.
7. Develop a business plan and specific artistic goals.
8. Take the necessary training to stay current with trends and acquire new approaches
9. Instructing in higher education and organising community events
