Hanbury Post 4 - Anthropologie (Nicola)

• • Within my work currently I feel I am stuck between creating images for editorial or publishing, and going down the route of really immersing myself in print making and process and creating textiles and patterns for product, packaging and clothing. This talk was helpful and helped me with confidence and decide how best to move forward. 
  • Kings Road Gallery. 
  • Within the design studio's the work it split up. Design teams work in collaboration from concept boards and test and make ideas and products that could work. They practically test ideas before creating for mass. 
  • Weather working for big companies or with independent artist the team at Anthropologie works the same. They sole aim to meet their core aims of maintaining on trend with the key consumer and maintaining a sustainable approach. 
  • Sustainability is a key part of Anthropologie's ethos and is integral to how they produce products and promote the company. 
  • A whale was a feature that happened across most of the stores last year. The whale was made up of recycled materials that where fixed to wire and embroided onto. Once the whale was finished with in the London store it was taken down to the National history museum and held there on exhibition. 
  • Recycled products are also used within store as well as display cabinets and tables.
  • Anthropologie do have internships which is something that I could be really interested in , especially in the practical design team. But also it would be good as a long term ambition to design products in collaboration with the independently. 
  • It was really good to have a collective which I helped run and one to one chat with Nicola. She originally has a degree in politics but now works as a senior part of marketing team. In the collective chat it was good to talk in more detail about the companies ethics, how the different teams worked and the growth of Anthropologie. 
  But the one to one conversation was the most valuable. I showed Nicola my individual outcomes of the collaboration with the British refugee council. But through out showing her I kept saying that I was new to printed textile , but she said that , that was absolutely fine. And she gave me some wisdom about how to get started in the industry. Don't compare yourself to others. I'll admit I do this, and I get worried a lot about not being good enough and I have been pigeon holing myself in resent months and worrying constantly about how I am going to fit in, but being creative is a skill in it's self and having the ability to problem solving through making can be applies to a number of disciplines. In the last few months here a new aim is to explore process as much as possible. In the end I know that my portfolio dose need to be narrowed down but print and process is at the core of it and this is the thing I am going to expole in more depth. 

Hanbury post 3 - It's nice that and No Brow

• The Graduates 2018
• It's Nice That partnerships with brands. 
• They have two meetings a week when they look at illustrators to feature in the magazine. 
• In the submissions, they look for personality, uniqueness, and being brave with what you are communicating and using to do this.  
• Own stories and own ideas
• Instagram- treat it like an online portfolio
• Twitter (not so much)
• Email- ask to meet for advice, work comes first.
• L cafe art fair.
• belona book fair Italy.
• Trends that are happening at the moment:
• Editorial 
• Illustrated nonfiction 
• Year of the women 
• Tips:
• Persistence 
• Keep creating your own work - self-initiated briefs.
• Don't be shy about creating stories. 
• INTERNING !!!
• Get to know what they look for.
• Approach small mags that you like.
• Submission details of work.
• When emailing It's nice that - lead with an image or two images, link.
• If you could - it's nice that.co.uk
• PDF or website for personal projects.
• Looking into other paths, interning at it's nice that could be really good! It would give me an experiment in creative editorial and understand how being a creative can work in that environment. 

Hanbury post 3 - Ricky Richards

• Pronto projects  - timely projects for example notable deaths , large media releases , cultural movements , natural disasters and political events. SELF INITIATED PROJECTS - I don't do enough of these !!!
• Influence of imputs.
• Instead of using social media platforms send one email a day to someone who you want to work with would be more effective. 
• This poster below was Richards responce to a political issue involving child soliders. He later posted the images on social media and it went viral. 
• Respoding to issues imetetly garentees that the audiance already has highened awareness and so would be listening. 

Hanbury post 1 Blink (Helen) and Big Active (Greg). notes

• Before the talk, I had a quick chat with Helen from Blink and asked her about some of her clients who do traditional print and the kind of work they get. She mentioned an artist named Rob Hunter who designed an album cover for Elbow's Little Fictions. But she said jobs that require physical print are few and far between. But those ideas can lead on into a more extensive project where the illustrator would collaborate with an animator to make GIFs, short animations, and animated posters. 
• This point about illustrations being much more digitally based than physically ran through both talks. An illustrator who is aiming to work in anything such as editorial should be able to work in collaboration and it seems it would help to have some animation skills. 
• Trends that they are starting to notice included the decline of print-based advertising, the vast majority of it now is on digital platforms such as social media. But Instagram is peaking. 
• Both these agencies look for individual style and uniqueness. Imagery that has a deep level of emotional intelligence. 
• Ideas over style.
• Big brands often don't pay, but they would up your profile, however, ensure you get the credit. 
• In terms of my practise , social media and digtial skills are really lacking.
• After the talk, I gave them a print with a business card and got both their emails. 

Rob Hunter 

Steve Gee - Stella Mccartney

Give away print

• Size A5
• Needs backing 
• Exclusive set of 25.
• Buisness cards slotted into back of packaging. 
• Packaging will only be simple, clean flim over white card with print in the middle. 
• Easy to transport and will keep good conditon.

Business card design

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