Biony Hartley is a freelance book layout designer. She came in with examples of her work and a presentation to help us visually understand the task we have with our new brief. I think that some of the tips and guidance she gave us will prove to be indispensable to me in this this new project, and probably in my career as a designer.
She said to always be nice. 'Be nice, be liked, be remembered, be hired'. A bit cheesy but still a good litle line to remember. Contacts is one of the biggest points she made. Always try to sell yourself and be quite shameless about it. One that I think I personally will take on board mostly is to not take feedback personally. Clients will always want to change something, its not that your design is wrong. This also links in with the risk assessment that she says she takes whenever she is stressed out about work. Just be realistic and tell yourself it is just design, no one is going to die, someone may lose a bit of profit, but that is it.
"what's the worse that could happen?"
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