A variety of pottery pieces are designed by ceramicists, who then mould and fire the clay to form the designs.
To create the goods, you'll need supplies including clay, porcelain, bone china, and stoneware. The piece will often be painted or coated with glaze to complete it.
Other names for this position are potter and ceramicist.
You may create something like:
1. Ceramic sculptural pieces used as bathroom fittings
2. Household and commercial cookware, giftware, jewellery, wall and floor tiles, and garden ceramics.
3. If you work for a big corporation, you'll translate a product brief into a mass-production design that will be commercially successful.
You're more likely to create original, one-of-a-kind, or limited edition designs if you're self-employed or working for a small business. However, there can be some crossover, and you can find yourself working on design projects for well-known businesses that manufacture their goods in large quantities.
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.
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
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.
Salaries greatly depend on your level of expertise, success, and renown, as well as how active and adept you are at advertising your own work, whether you are employed or self-employed.
Starting pay for individuals with jobs can be in the neighbourhood of £15,000.
Ceramic designers with experience can make more than £30,000.
Earnings for independent ceramic designers can vary greatly from year to year and might be extremely modest at the beginning of a career. The majority of ceramicists adopt a portfolio method of working, earning a living through a variety of jobs, with teaching being one of the more common ones.
