LAUIL502: Notes From Session 2

• Shorter contracts, single jobs. Working with companies for a short time. 

• We are the third largest economy in the world. 

• Who knows if it will stay like this due to Brexit.

• We are a socialist economy, international profile, voted away by the public. We have voted into an independent economy.

• We dominated and influenced the world at one point. 

• England has coloured the way the world works and we still have a footing in the way countries work. 

• Currently, London is one of the largest financial centres of the world. Seems fairly stable at this point in time and is equivalent to that of New York, Hong Kong, etc.
• We no longer need to live in London to be successful as illustrators. The North, especially the "Pennine corridor" of Manchester and Leeds (perfect for me as I live in both!) are now incredibly attractive as media has moved here and it is much cheaper to live.

• We became one of the financiers of the world through Industrial Revolution.

• We have a global financial reach. We may not make things anymore but we finance them. We help others make things.

• Software and games are huge industries. Us, as illustrators, sit within that. Print, animation, advertisement. Creativity is bankable. 

• Are we producing goods or a service? Primarily it is a service.

• Primary Sector: First Sector. Harvesting. taking from the earth. Hunting, gathering, fishing, mining. 

• Secondary Sector: Second Sector. Extracting, manufacturing from raw materials, construction.

• Tertiary Sector: Third Sector. Service industry. Stuff you're making, transportation, media, tourism, banking, service. Not a tangible object. Our sector.

• Fourth Sector. Economy of intellectual activity. Working with government culture. Sharing with other people and monetising from that. 

• Begin to understand which sector you sit within, who you want to work with, who you need to be in contact with and examine it.

• Any economy can be divided into sectors.

• Target your business, sell your work to them, shape your practice because you've done the research.

• IP - Intellectual property.

• Copyright, licence, protecting, charging for your work, getting paid.

• Intangible stuff: the idea.

• Your intellectual value.

• Illustration exists within a big list of practices. We sit between design and fine art.

• We are creatives. We have creative value. We are working for a reason.

• Always keep your receipts; food, stationary, technology and stick it in a box that can be used against your tax.

• Join the Association of Illustrators (AOI) before you leave). Join the day before you graduate to maximise the usage and you will benefit from student discount for a year!