Blink Art & Big Active
- Agencies make it more possible for illustrators and other creatives to collaborate? With photographers, animators etc.
- Artists 'live in a vacuum' - agencies can add context and credibility to your practice.
- Blogs can be important if it's your thing - keep clients updated on your practice
- INDIVIDUALITY is important - don't look at what other people are doing/don't compare yourself to others
- Ask clients: "What is it about my work you really like?"
The Dots
- Creatives are 'no-collar' jobs - creative skills, job-hopping, project by project basis
- Machines can't replicate creativity! Our skills are valuable
- Diversity
- Portfolio tips: quality > quantity, tailor it to specific clients, START STRONG, include personality, show passion and enthusiasm, concepts not just final pieces
Anthropologie
- VISUAL MERCHANDISER - curating a shop space to make it inviting for consumers
Ricky Richards
- Pronto Projects - responding quickly to events like national disasters - work becomes iconic and goes down in history!
- Influence of Inputs - generic input = generic output
- Look for interesting/obscure source material
- Preposterous PR - unique responses that make you stand out, like Mr. Bingo!
- Self-directed projects are the MOST important. Show passion and individuality.
- Don't put things in your portfolio you don't want to do again.
- Animation is a great skill to have with rise of internet.
- IDEAS > style
It's Nice That & Nobrow
- People that aren't suited to commercial publishing
- PERSONALITY!
- Brave enough to do your own thing
- ELCAF - run by Nobrow
- Treat Instagram like an online portfolio
- BUT it doesn't need to be serious
- BE HUMAN - people like helping graduates, they've been there
- DO MY OWN THING
