Ilford 120 Format packaging

TLK 3

This week it was the 3rd TLK lecture with 3 new guests including Jane Richardson from Aquent Recruitment Agency, second was Joel Gardner a freelance illustrator who had work at the Aucb in the past, and lastly Chris Wharton a freelance Web designer from London.

This weeks session was all about making as a designer after graduating. Again the emphasis was put on networking and how beneficial it can be to finding a job. Chris' outlook appeared to be realistic claiming the journey will be long and hard knocking on company doors hoping one will give you a shot. and the first year spent mostly sending general emails out in the vague hope of a result.

According to the guests, getting a foot through the door is most of the work, It then comes down to networking and building relationships with companies. Just like last week the conversations turned to debate when the subject of accepting jobs. knowing where to draw the line on the right or wrong job.

Some of the final points discussed at the end were things like networking using sites like Linkedin and Arts Thread but to be careful with Twitter and Facebook

because you just don't know who is watching.

Look forward to the next lecture

Prendesign!

Valentine's day

For my card of love this year! I thought I would make something different, and have fun with some origami and letterset.

Good times!

Funky Envelopes

Who says thank you cards have to be boring?

TLK 2

So last week we had another networking lecture (TLk).

Invited back was David from Redweb and three new additions to the talk, Bella Lewis smith of Salad creative, Ross Cleaver of revolting, and lastly Paul Leon a freelancer based in london.

Titled the creative process the talked moved through various stages and the panel talked about their own experiences of a brief from start to finish considering all the problems or highlights of a task from the pitch to a potential client, to turning down work for various reasons.

One interesting point for me was the pitch debate whether or not it should be paid or not according to the panel always try and negotiate a deal with the client because it is your time and money also. The debate quickly turned to the dismissal of work and basically how far were the designers prepared to seal a deal. For this there were two very different ideas of what was acceptable three of the designers said they would pass a job if it was immoral or they didn't agree with the company ethos. On the other hand Paul suggested it would be possible to, depending on the circumstances.

After that questions were put to the panel and one particular point raise again and again was the right to work for free, as students this was very relevant to our process. Again half agreed and the others did not, it seemed to really spark a debate in the crowd with no real solution.

Other points I learnt was too avoid a powerpoint pitch when presenting to a client because you will loose the persons interest in minutes. The advise was to let them see things visual but physically as well get them to stand and talk them through the idea.

Lastly one of the points that rang load and clear was to research a brief, from the history of the subject to the environment, know everything there is to know about the brand.

TLk Talk

Last night we had a networking talk at the AUCB about, well Networking!

The talk came from three creatives from various agencies in Bournemouth including Redweb, Thinking Juice and Design South West.

They basically covered all the key aspects to networking in industry, Getting noticed was one of the main issues for designers the talk was spent somewhat reminiscing about there early days in the industry, But regardless it was very insightful and really put the networking process in to perspective.

On yer Bike!

Final Designs.