Monday, 1 February 2021

[LAUIL602] Professional Practice Session 1 Notes

• Coping with freelance work

• Freelance life (how to stay sane)

• Huge distraction with being at home currently in the pandemic with Netflix and Internet

• Maintaining discipline of work. Be reflective. How you work best. Peak productivity. Know yourself. Be honest. Patterns of creativity. Timetabling can be hard but it can get you going.The biggest hurdles are often psychological

• Practical regime. Release creative thinking

• Doing the admin and tax work is part of everyday and set aside time for that

• You are human and people want to find you and see you. Go to work. Pricing list of what needs to be done. Regime

• Life hacks: Reshaping how you use social media. Apps that allow you to schedule tasks by project. To do lists for productivity

• Bad social media habits are hard to break. Block websites that are distracting!

• Allow structured procrastination. Be timeless for longevity. The occasional "off" day, not a day off

• Build exercise into day-to-day feed me physically and mentally

• What do you enjoy doing? Don't make work for other people. Make work that you enjoy

• Commercial admin – organising portfolio, rebranding, website, talking to clients, talk to agents etc.

• Take an overview of what's happening globally

• With no one to talk to, or bounce ideas off, it can be maddening

• Build preventative measures into your daily routine. Finish the day off with a set amount of ideas/drawings/concepts. However bad. Harvesting something is better than nothing.

• Who do you trust to be appropriate for feedback?

• The human touch: Try a skill swap. Put an event on yourself

• Networking. Real life networking (not possible at this time)

• "A lot of people I work for again and again. Keeping and maintaining that relationship" Ben Jones

• Clients are real people who understand that you are young and scared. Human.

• Portfolio master classes

• Follow-up on initial meeting with agents/clients but don't be creepy

• Appreciate your followers: you don't know what they will become in the future

• Defend your castle

• Agree your fee first. You don't want pizza, you want money. Take the budget seriously. Be transparent. You will be taken seriously.

• Have clear and consistent terms and conditions. 30 day payment terms. Late fees. Kill fees..

• Join an industry body

• Be reliable, be polite, on time and you will get paid. Don't miss deadlines.

• Chase chase chase – ideally contact the right person in the finance department, separate the payment person from the creative person. Confront the right people to keep the working relationship!

•  Update website often and email out to past clients. Make and print booklets and pitch to clients, get work on the back of that

• Turn work into promotional work. Like postcards. Individual and distinct style

• About being you

• Heart agency. Set of stamps turned into prints

• Risograph prints, screenprints. Foldout poster and portfolio on the other side. 

• Finding the right names and who to connect with

•  Find the area you want to work in. Think about who you can talk to.

• Talk to Pete as he seems to be into galleries/curating?

• Bikini list – the AOI have one to buy uses lots of useful job contacts

• The Dots – creative LinkedIn

• Intern

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