yoodooright
Junior Member
I've been freelancing for a design agency for 18months. The agency specialises in print design for Theatre and Arts in the UK.
Now as 99% of the productions we work on are Arts Council funded, they always have very very tight budgets, and tight budgets means i'm allowed very little time to work on each project (sometimes as little as 8hrs to brand a new company production and produce 2 pieces of print - this includes 3 or 4 initial concept ideas, all client correspondence and all amends over the course of a week.)
Although the clients and projects allow for some really creative approaches that at the start i get very excited about... in reality when the clock starts and i'm having to log every 15minutes spent on the project, everything feels rushed and ends up looking half finished!! I'm currently trying to compile a portfolio of work and am amazed at how little work i've produced at this agency i'm proud of. So much so in fact that i've started to 'finish' projects in my own time to the standard i'd liked to have been able to in the first place before compiling my portfolio.
I was just wandering if this sounds like a reasonable moan or wether it's just the sad reality of how a design business operates in the real world? I always dream of working for a creative agency that have the budgets at hand to allow projects and ideas to be explored and develop over a decent amount of time... I guess the bottom line is i want to be proud and satisfied with the work i produce, and get involved with projects i can really get my teeth stuck into rather than rush through.
Thoughts?
YDR
Now as 99% of the productions we work on are Arts Council funded, they always have very very tight budgets, and tight budgets means i'm allowed very little time to work on each project (sometimes as little as 8hrs to brand a new company production and produce 2 pieces of print - this includes 3 or 4 initial concept ideas, all client correspondence and all amends over the course of a week.)
Although the clients and projects allow for some really creative approaches that at the start i get very excited about... in reality when the clock starts and i'm having to log every 15minutes spent on the project, everything feels rushed and ends up looking half finished!! I'm currently trying to compile a portfolio of work and am amazed at how little work i've produced at this agency i'm proud of. So much so in fact that i've started to 'finish' projects in my own time to the standard i'd liked to have been able to in the first place before compiling my portfolio.
I was just wandering if this sounds like a reasonable moan or wether it's just the sad reality of how a design business operates in the real world? I always dream of working for a creative agency that have the budgets at hand to allow projects and ideas to be explored and develop over a decent amount of time... I guess the bottom line is i want to be proud and satisfied with the work i produce, and get involved with projects i can really get my teeth stuck into rather than rush through.
Thoughts?
YDR