The Talk: By a Professional

On Monday we where visited by Dave Pannell and Craig Burgess from The Design Mechanics. They gave us a presentation on how the company works and what Dave expects of new workers entering his company.

I found it an interesting talk in regards to the time taken to design a logo which was sometimes as short as 1 hour. This is good way to work as it gets the logo out in a good time, but still maintains the same quality as it would if he took 2 weeks to do it.

As well it was great to see an employer that was keen to take student straight from the imedia course. However was shocked when he said that students from university where not the people that he wanted in his business, because of the fact that he didn’t think that they knew enough about the varied time scale that comes with working for a company. In turn this ends up costing him too much money to get them to that stage.

Also I think that his company is sort of like a supermarket in terms of you go in get your goods i.e. logo, business cards, leaflets etc. Paying a set price shown in the price list which I thought was different as I didn’t think you can know what to charge before you know what the work is.

It was a good opportunity to get told by someone with experience in the industry about how creating your own business isn’t all it cracked up to be, it’s a long process full of mistakes, almost like a rollercoaster ride.

I found it an informative presentation, and appreciated the talk by a professional.