I am taking part in One Club Creative Bootcamp. It seem to be a great challenge.
Their site - www.oneclub.org
The brief was announced today, but the teams will be assigned tomorrow.
Negotiation for freelancers
Simone and I visited the lecture about freelance work in London and different styles of negotiation. The lecture was a part of Enterprise Week.
So, there are different styles of negotiation:
- Accommodating
- Avoiding
- Collaborating
- Competing
- Compromising
Arrange Fee
- Be sure, that the fee is right
- Be sure, that clients do not know how difficult/not difficult your work is
Mention all Details of work
- How many pieces of work you need to do
- How many hours your need to spend
- When do you need to show your work
- How do you need to show your work
- How much freedom do you have while interpreting the brief
- Mention means of communication with your client
- How often do you need to communicate with your client
- What to do if work is not satisfactory?
Be realistic
- New freelances often underestimate how long a particular work might take
- Make sure you are happy with the terms
UAL Graduates
Part of enterprise week, people who graduated from UAL took word in today’s lecture – London College of enterprising individuals it was called.
Speakers were:
- Design – Michael Horsham – Tomato - www.tomato.co.uk
- Film – Becky Mccray – Nexus productions & Crafternoon - www.nexusproductions.com
- Animation/advertising – Mariano Melman Passion Pictures - www.passion-pictures.com
- Illustrator/Artist - Kate Dineen - www.robertsandelson.com/artists/KateDineen/index.html
- Filmaker Camise Oldfield. Freelance production design, art direction, Ex FDA Media Practie and BAFTV
- Sound Design Aram zarikian, Sound Arts. - www.myspace.com/zarikian
- Design – Min-Kyu Choi – Designer of the Year 2009
It is always interesting to listen to recent (and non-recent) graduates. Jo and some of her best students were there.
1972 Olympic Games Pictograms
We’ve studied the language of Pictograms. 1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany were mentioned for the use of international language of images. They introduced the sports pictograms, so anybody can understand them.
The language of pictograms is really easy to understand:
{scan is coming soon}
Sensitive and scary
My sensitive and scary photos:
Monday’s creative review
This Monday we had a kind of creative review. We were required to show:
- Our final manifesto
- Our place ideas
- Our best ad (from our previous works)
- Ideas of launching ourselves
Everything was alright, but the waiting time. Tutors were circulating throughout the classes and giving their feedback. The thing is, that I get this kind of feedback every Friday on Friday’s creative review. I talk to tutors, get their opinions and points of view; I explain my ideas and try to prove my point of view.
So, my opinion about this Monday: it was unnecessary and it took too much time.
We had lots of spare time, but because this spare time had been split by presentations we were unable to concentrate and to produce our work.
Grant’s Mark Making
Form and color are attributes of every brand. People remember shapes and colors. If you own shape it is good, but if you own color – it is great!
For example, Cadbury owns purple color, Sainsbury’s owns shape, and so on.
Lecture finished one hour earlier, and it is not good…
Futures week
Futures week conference have been held here, in LCC. Many famous people. I’ve attended everything.
Computer networks, website development, Facebook, twitter, publishing, mobile app development, ebooks, holography, marketing – Cool!
Finished in Darkroom bar
Our Friday’s evening guest lecture finished as usual, in Darkroom bar. My drinks sponsor is Strongbow.
Damien Poullain’s Ello
Ello, said Damien!.. He’d showcased us his portfolio, which is not bad. I remember one called Alpha Bêtes, which you need to smoke to produce:
Enjoyed his creative work. Finishing this post with full-of-truth words from his poster: “Be nice to nerds, chances are you’ll end up working for one”.