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Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Bottom line design
How can you do more with less? It's a challenge that marketing and creative services organisations increasingly face. You'd like to better align your resources and re-engineer your processes. But where to start? In the 8th video of Aquent's "Educational Design Thinking out Loud" series called "Bottom-line Design", Nina Eigerman—graduate of... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Outside in
What are the dangers of hiring people who "fit in" with your organisation? And why, instead, should you bring in people to shake things up and "orbit the hairball"? In the 6th video of Aquent's "Educational Design Thinking out Loud" series called "Outside In", John Bielenberg - co-founder of the innovative C2 (Creative Capital), member of AIGA... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Entertaining business
What's it like to work with some of the brightest lights in the field of entertainment, including Sex and the City, Will & Grace, and Saturday Night Live? In the 5th video of Aquent's "Educational Design Thinking out Loud" series called "Design Leadership", Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler, co-founders and principals of the... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Design leadership
What does it take for a company to realize the full benefits of design? In the 4th video of Aquent's "Educational Design Thinking out Loud" series called "Design Leadership", RitaSue Siegel, founder of design-focused executive search firm RitaSue Siegel Resources, says it takes a leader who recognises that design is critical to reaching a... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : What I didn't learn at design school
In the 3rd video of Aquent's "Educational Design Thinking out Loud" series called "What I didn't learn in design school", Peter Girardi, founder of the design firm Funny Garbage and production designer for Comedy Central's Crank Yankers TV series in the US, looks at how personal experience and background shape a designer's development and how... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Should you specialise in one area, or become a multi-disciplinary Designer?
In the 2nd video of Aquent's "Educational Design Thinking Out Loud" series called "Jack of All Trades vs. Master of One", Michael Vanderbyl explains why it's almost always better to hire a designer skilled in multiple disciplines instead of a specialist. He examines the many advantages that result from working with someone who can deliver your... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Ever wonder what an employer really wants to see in your folio?
As part of Aquent's "Design Thinking Out Loud" video series, we recently filmed Aquent client, Jennifer Morla, Owner and Creative Director of Morla Design in San Francisco, who spoke honestly and passionately about the criteria she uses when screening Talent for her agency. Jennifer is responsible for some of the most influential design work of... More…
'Award Rates' for graphic designers
by Andrew Lam-Po-Tang Every year we get hundreds of inquiries from people asking about award rates for graphic designers. The quick (and potentially highly misleading) answer is... If you work for a "Graphic Arts" company (either a printing company, or a company in a printing-related industry such as a repro house, etc.) then there are two... More…
AGDA/Aquent Survey show a salary increase for 2002/2003
AGDA and Aquent, have joined forces to produce a design industry remuneration and employment benchmarking report to provide design professionals with current information on salary levels, business practices, and growth areas for 2002/2003, the first of its kind for professionals. After almost 2 years of stagnation in the design industry, the... More…
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Reality Check 1: Only 20% of jobs are advertised in newspapers or handled by placement companies (30 Mar 1998, Business Review Weekly, Aust.) Remarkable, huh? So what about the remaining 80% - where does that come from? Word of mouth and other 'informal' channels, probably - 4 out of every 5 successful applicants get their job through some sort... More…
