Monday, November 28, 2016

Glug Event

Last week I attended an Creative event called Glug Leeds. Located in Munro house leeds I saw 7 talks by creative people and found it vey inspiring, I wrote some notes for each talk, what I found interesting. Overall it was a great experience to be surrounded in an friendly environment by creative people.



Build
  • Inspired by music
  • The Graphic Language of Neville Brody
  • You think that London is where you need to be, but that is changing
  • It is liberating to buy a studio space and be able to live and work in a different place
  • Doing a huge range of projects is both an advantage and a disadvantage
  • We try to partner with people who are talented in their field like animation.


Studio 12
  • Started at uni
  • A place to be creative, experiment, have a space to learn.
  • They change the course and facilities on what you advise us.
  • We bring in mentors to work with people
  • Writing Britain (Ma) The power of dreams
  • We give people a platform into the industry
  • Its always about solving a real life problem
  • Do not limit your creativity to those around you, push recourses and boundaries
  • Understand and respect others creativity and make it work with yours, you need patience.


Intern Magazine
  • You are the only person that sets the boundaries in your career
  • No one would give me a job so I thought I will make my own
  • Young people are trapped in a cycle of unpaid work
  • We believe that young people are the future
  • Creative work has value
  • The hardest thing is deciding what you want to do
  • Challenge gender pay gap, fight for diversity
  • Age is just a number
  • Do not underplay your value
  • If you follow the herd the view wont change

She does digital - Encourage Women in the creative industry 
  • Epiphany
  • Be a role model
  • We develop digital talent in leeds
  • Leeds Digital festival
  • #Wheredidyoustart?


Creative Life - Matt Essam, Freelance 

  • Studied new media at leeds
  • Started freelance with a friend on his course
  • I would take on any job, problem, you attact nightmare clients who don't pay much money
  • The 4 hour work week Timothy Ferris
  • Alan Watts, what would you do talks
  • Our values are the things that are important in our lives
  • Authentic Creativity, Creativity is driven by passion, purpose and values
  • The portfolio lifestyle
  • Identify what you really want
  • why do you want these things?
  • Find ways to put values in your life.


Only Studio
  • 5 lessons
  • Be nice to people
  • Maximise every opportunity
  • Share your passion
  • Be brave
  • Do good work

Chris Kenworthy
  • Freelance
  • What do you stand for?
  • What do you believe in?
  • Have a vision of what you want
  • Fear- get rid of it
  • It can be lonely and hard
  • Business is based on trust
  • You get highs and lows, however there are more highs
  • Free thinking, independent people, who motivate themselves and are well organised and adaptable. 
  • Do friendly favours
  • Know your limits, know yourself
  • Relax, something always turns up
  • There is no such thing as the right price
  • Theres no shame in small
  • No one really knows what there doing !
  • The human freelancer - book


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