image.

I did this ages ago, just playing around with the idea of the hexagon shape.

Kate

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Might be useful if we attended these.

Kylee

Nude magazine

this is what Nude magazine replied about publicity:

'As regards your end of year show, I'm not sure whether there's much that we can offer. We'd be happy to provide some magazines for goody bags, but as far as a small ad in the magazine is concerned, we could only really offer that if we have some space available just before going to press that we need to fill up and if we did, it would be very short notice. More viable might be a flyer or leaflet which we'd be happy to put inside any copies going to London-based subscribers and people who subsequently order the magazine in the greater London/ Home Counties area. As you know, Nude is distributed both nationally and internationally, but there would be little point in sending flyers out to people in Manchester, New York, Tokyo etc. So if that's any use to you then I would suggest supplying us with about 200 flyers.'

i reckon we could still use them in some way...maybe.

Kristina

Press Packin'

tJust to show everyone what the press pack is going to look like. We're sending it off this week. So I hope you haven't got too many issues. As well it would be good if more people had Idea's of who we can approach for sponsorship. Or if they've got any links to media coverage. Magazines/websites anyone. Also we had the plan of packing them into clear envelopes. I had a few but only like 5 and when kylee and laura tried to get more today found out they cost like 40p each. not really viable. So if anyone can help out with that too.
See y'all tomorrow.
Ross

Hi all..................

Hello,
I've just seen the press pack, looking good! The only issue I have with it is the 'Z' on beeZ,
do we really want this?

We're still doing it on yellow paper right?
And what about the envelope situation? I can get envelopes, 40 of them for free.
Are we still going to draw on them?



Harley

DEPOSIT

Hello everyone,

We are in the process of securing a location for our show, for this we need a contribution of £10.00 each month beginning on the 20th of February.

This will cover the cost of:

Van hire
Printing
Location
Deposits
etc..

Unfortunately if we don't receive the money by the 20th we will have to assume that you do not want to take part.

The money will be transferred immediately into a savings account and will be very safe.

P.S We will be having a meeting on Friday to discuss this further.

Thanks

Laura/ Kaz/ Adam/ Kylee/ Chloe/ Kate/ Ross/ Kristina

press pack.

adam did this for us. what does everyone think?

BEES AND HONEY

Hello,
We were kind of disappointed with the turn out this morning, however we did have a productive morning.
Just so you are aware that the theme is based on the credit crunch, getting as much as we can for free and as we’re looking to exhibit in East London, we’ve taken a cockney rhyming slang for money, BEES AND HONEY.
This theme also reflects the differences of our course, illustrators and graphic designers working along side one another.
Adam is working on the design of the press pack.
Just so you ILLUSTRATORS know that we’ve come up with the idea to do a little drawing or something to personalise the envelope that we’re sending out the press packs in. So get sketching!
We’re on the look for A4 envelopes, of different sorts also! So start collecting!

Thanks,

Harley, Kaz and Ross.

Laura:

Hello I thought I would have a go at a few visuals, obviously its still in the early stages but I thought i would post it here. See you all Friday x

Jillz

Just a little extra thing I remembered from the onedotzero talk was Jillz cider, its new from Heineken and targeted at women, might be an idea to approach them too as it is a new product, would be helpful as extra if we need it!

http://www.contagiousmagazine.com/News%20Article.aspx?REF=992&IsArchive=false

Catch you all Monday,

Kylee :D

::INDUSTRY CONTACTS::

Here is a list of the industry list we have between us:

:H&M
:Thomas Matthews
:onedotzero
:Caroline Clark
:Re:Design
:Two by Two design
:Shoot EXPERIENCE
:Alex Bec
:Matthew Williamson
:LP33.tv
:Them
:Biblioteque
:BEAR
:Fruit Machine
:Dutch Uncle
:Container Plus
:Peninsular Design
:Peepshow
:Moving Brands
:Heart Agency
:Nude Magazine
:Ken Garland
:Rick Poyner
:Lucienne Roberts
:Andrew Ree
:Elliott Thoburn
:Tom Gauld
:John Burgerman
:John Hendrix
:Dan Mumford
:Fedrick Von Blixen
:Marcel Dzama
:JJ Marshal
:David Holmes
:Jake
:Marcus Masslam
:Miles Donovan
:Kate Deuchars
:Village Green
:Live Magazine
:Big Smoke Mag
:Amelia's Magazine
:Cut Up Collective


Quite a comprehensive list if you ask me.

What are we going to do next?

ART

Hi All,

Yesterday when I was walking home I discovered this gallery
http://www.roa-galleria.com/index.html

I think the space is great for us,
It's spread out over 3 floors, it has a kitchen, bathroom and tonnes of hanging space plus it's in a prime location!

They told me that they publicise the exhibition in newspapers and on their website they also invite their extensive contact list.

They also man it, hang the stuff and maintain everything for £4000 a week, that's just £160 between 25 people!

I think we should act fast and book a place as soon as we can so we know what we're dealing with and to avoid disappointment if a space that we want is unavailable!

also, I am not sure if you guys have my e-mail: it' hboden@ymail.com just in case, keep me in the loop!


Harley

P R O M O

Hey it's Harley here,

I was thinking, for a final exhibition we could possibly project our images/motion graphics onto a building or something.. I think that could look quite swish, there are companies out there that rent 'large venue' projectors.

Or thinking about the underground, how about we look into 'platform art' and do a collaborative poster or something for underground stations across London?

OR for promo material we could collaborate with each other and send out desk top calenders or sticky notes or something like that to agencies or publishing clients or something for us to promote ourselves?

I'm just thinking aloud.

Ta

Laura-

Hello, I found this:



I thought that the format of a newspaper, (although hard to print on) is really nice. Its quite simple, I was thinking maybe the inside spread could be the quote rather than image?
The front could then have our exhibition logo/name quite small but with the designer/illustrator's name. Each could be treated differently?

Letterpress, screen printing, hand rendered?

Just initial thoughts but I thought maybe we need to keep the budget quite small and reach a larger audience?

Let me know what you think,

See you all soon!

Hi, 

I am back in London, when is everyone free?

my number is

07725868885

Ross-

Kylee this sounds great. We deffinately have alot to do.
When is everyone back from holidays because I think we need a good few days to make this pdf together.
Put your phone number up.
And get back to london as soon as possible. Shall we all concentrate on a certain aspect of this pdf. and then put it together. I'll start writing some stuff for it all.
Speak soon.

Ross - 07947918813
I'll be back boxing day. so just let me know when you guys are.

Kylee - onedotzero feedback sponsorship talk

Basically we need to create a pdf about us, we need to let potential sponsors know, what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how it will benefit them to sponsor us, we need to outline exactly what they will get out of it. 

The slides should contain roughly the following:

1. Title, front page, dates, what it is, who it is.

2. Core operations, uni and course

3. Numbers, what goes on at uni, the structure of course, stats, status of college in the design world, significance that the course is rare, designers and illustrators working together. Basically why Camberwell and the course is great.

4. Why they should sponsor us. eg. it would be good for the company to show that they engage with students and are keen on new talents, branding and marketing, how will the event be advertised or invite only? emails, newsletter, uni publications, websites?

5. Output, people attended, household names of people that have been through Camberwell eg. Tim Roth apparantly studied at Camberwell so did Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. The prospectus that contained interesting facts about Camberwell would be good for this. This also needs supporting visuals.

6. Explaining what will happen in the show.

7. Who we are engaging with, guests, facts and figures. There is a system 'ABCD social goup' a simple way of stating the type of people attending, ours would probably be 'ABC1 95%' 

A - City educated working class people

B - Business leaders middle class people

C - Lower management people

Also details of the two core groups targeted.

The ratio of men to women would also be put on the same page.

(not sure if I have explained this one very well)

8. Breakdown of what we want from the company, (some people don't put this one)

OTHER THINGS TO CONSIDER

Location? ideas of location posted on here so everyone can have a look and share ideas.

Visuals - can we create visuals of a suggested identity? It is good to have a feel for what it would look like upfront, details where sponsors details would go, if it be on the invites, or if there is a screen displaying sponsors as you walk in to the show.

We need to explain ourselves and how great we are as a team. use the uni prospectus. 'creative new talent' 'innovative' etc. 

What will be showing at the exhibition? posters? books? illustrations? print work?

We need to think about a theme and equipment we might need.

Media quotes? 10 things you didn't know about Camberwell college of art.

Goody Bags, we could simply approach companies in london asking for promotional material that we might put together in a take away goody bag, a lasting reminder of the show.

Community, the value of the creative community, we could advertise through SU bar, it will be advertised through word of mouth, event on facebook and mentioning the fact that facebook did infact grow from a student community.

At the end of the day we are not asking for that much sponsorship in comparison to the large companies that ask for a lot more, however if we look as professional as possible we won't be written off as just another group of students that want free stuff.

Also we need to think about numbers? this will determine the space we get and everything else will fit around this, amount of drinks required, promotional material etc.

onedotzero

After our visit to onedotzero I think we all were quite inspired about what we could potentially do with the show. So it would be really great if we can all keep in contact through Christmas, and post any updates, ideas or contacts we my have. Thanks.

First Post!

Hi Everyone. 

This is the new Blog to support the process from start to finish of our FdA Design and Illustration show.