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Well, Patrick, I for one am thoroughly refreshed by Creative Review’s candid insight into the creative industries from both client and designer. At this stage in my career design seems to be the thing I do in between the phone calls, e-Mails, estimates, invoices, chasing of said invoices and the general day-to-day running of a small design business.

Design is no longer just a pretty picture on a page (I refer to the end result and not to the lack of substance), but a series of decisions, arguments, dialogues, and processes that the client and designer go through every day.

This is engaging stuff - maybe not to a graduate fresh out of university - but certainly to me.

30-something small design business owner
London, UK
Marcus Taylor
2007-11-30 19:57:42

If there's a Gompertz film, can I suggest Bill Nighy plays him?
Andy Smith
2007-11-30 22:36:15

What reads the poster behind Will? Looks interesting.
Dragos
2007-12-01 00:19:11

Dragos,
The poster reads:

HOW TO WORK BETTER
1 DO ONE THING AT A TIME
2 KNOW THE PROBLEM
3 LEARN TO LISTEN
4 LEARN TO ASK QUESTIONS
5 DISTINGUISH SENSE FROM NONSENSE
6 ACCEPT CHANGE AS INEVITABLE
7 ADMIT MISTAKES
8 SAY IT SIMPLE
9 BE CALM
10 SMILE

"It is a reproduction of How to Work Better (1991) by Fischli & Weiss (adapted for Tate in 2006)."

I think i've broken all those reminders in the last week.

;-)
Grant
2007-12-04 13:36:41

This issue was brilliant. Just finished reading it today (to come home and find the January issue at home another plus about CR as they always get the magazines out early). The client information and the processes that they go through with Europa are brilliant, especially for a student (like myself) who is interesting in finding out about some client + designer relationships. Great issue this one and for those buying from the shops worth the cover price.
Thomas Wood
2007-12-13 20:51:54