Collaboration anyone?

[Pickles]

Hi everyone.

I've been reading some of the posts about people looking for work and advice and I'm the same. I have however had an idea this morning about what I could do about it. I want to your views if you think this is a stupid idea.

I've always wanted do some collaborative work so that I can learn and grow from other people's views. Obviously I would do the same for other people in return. I'm not quite sure what kind of projects or how it would work, but we could start with general artwork posters and progress from there. Obviously it may be a challenge to work out some of the details - with only talking through posts and emails - but I believe it could give people a different way of working and learning. Maybe pick a word out the dictionary, do some quick brainstorming and each produce a part of the design?

I'm not sure if I'm making myself clear so I'll explain things more if needed.

This is what's behind my thinking:

• Building honest design relationships,
• Improving your artwork
• Improve communication skills
• Constructive criticism
• Produce unique creative work

.. and of-course have a bit of fun.

It's just an idea, let me know what you think.

Lynne

[mr_bear]

id be interested in working on something...

if im not doing anything i might aswell be doing something constructive :)

[chris_17]

id be interested in working on something...

if im not doing anything i might aswell be doing something constructive :)

Snap. I'm interested

Chris

[Pickles]

That's excellent news chris_17 & mr_bear. I'm very happy to hear this, I shall be in touch

Please let me know if you have further suggestions and ideas on time scales and type of project. I would like to do something sooner rather than later, but, I also don't want to put any demands on people (that's not the point of the project) I guess it's all about finding a balance. Feel free to PM me.

Eh not sure where to start... how about personal interests?
Me: Motorsport, print design, photography, Japanese, music, that kind of thing. But I'm open to a lot of different things, I'm a visual thinker.

Anyway I shall give this more thought as-to how we could make it work! Thanks for the replies.

Cheers Lynne

[chris_17]

That's excellent news chris_17 & mr_bear. I'm very happy to hear this, I shall be in touch

Please let me know if you have further suggestions and ideas on time scales and type of project. I would like to do something sooner rather than later, but, I also don't want to put any demands on people (that's not the point of the project) I guess it's all about finding a balance. Feel free to PM me.

Eh not sure where to start... how about personal interests?
Me: Motorsport, print design, photography, Japanese, music, that kind of thing. But I'm open to a lot of different things, I'm a visual thinker.

Anyway I shall give this more thought as-to how we could make it work! Thanks for the replies.

Cheers Lynne

I'm with you on motorsport!

[NeedForBleed]

Sounds like a good idea, I'm always open to projects like this and working as a team. Something which I feel slightly isolated from in my current workplace. I think something like this could work well in a portfolio too.
So if you need another head, I'd gladly roll mine your way.

[Pickles]

Sounds like a good idea, I'm always open to projects like this and working as a team. Something which I feel slightly isolated from in my current workplace. I think something like this could work well in a portfolio too.
So if you need another head, I'd gladly roll mine your way.

That's great, another head is always welcome Great to have you aboard. I think it would be great for portfolio work. It's definitely beneficial to have an interesting story behind the work.

I have a few ideas on things to do for this, but all suggestions are welcome. I'll be in touch hopefully by the start of the week to let everyone know my suggestions (really busy this weekend). One thing that could be useful is to know what everyone is more skilled at. I'm kind of an all-rounder and more directed at the print end. Fave app would be Illustrator.

[chris_17]

Sounds great, look foward to hearing from you.

Fave App would be Dreamweaver, although I'm comfortable with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

Chris

[NeedForBleed]

Great, I look forward to it.

I'm familiar with the Adobe suite and Quark, and will soon be attempting to get to grips with a 3D program in the shape of lightwave, 3DS Max or cinema 4D. I'm going to flip a 3 sided coin.

I'd say I drop into the category of favouring vector based graphics, although I'm frequently experimenting with photo manipulations and new styles in photoslurp.

Before I contribute any ideas, I think I will see what you have planned, then base them on that.

[Soprano]

This sounds interesting, could the forum see the final outcome when it's done?