Make Your Own Experience - 2.11.18

6B2

Dan Cooper - Nomadic Designer

• Would offer two days of free work in a studio for one day of mentoring back.
• Easy to turn heroes into collaborators.
• Find alternative ways of collaborating and connecting with heroes. 

The Cool Bus

• Mobile graphic design studio.
• Served as small internships.
• People were intrigued and interested by the mystique of it. 
• Has more personality and stands out from the crowd.

Snask

• Every time they were asked to do a talk they played a gig.

'When you do something no one hates, no one loves it...' - Tibon Kalman

Søren Danielson 

• Started off as a graphic designer but go into motion graphics.
• Made a promo video stating he was searching for an internship. This was put on Facebook and on a specific Reddit motion graphics forum, who gave him strong critique. 
• He got lots of freelance work and internships offered to him because of this.

 The Pop Up Agency

• Would offer to solve any creative brief in 48hrs.
• 15 briefs, 15 cities, 15 weeks.
• They no longer go in to find the 'solution' they go in to teach creative strategies and how everyone can be creative. They have worked with clients like Apple.
• Team of 5 went down to 2.

If you're going to take risks make sure the rewards are worth it.

Kate Darby

• Places to get work - UpWork, Fiverr and 99 Designs but they didn't solve the problem. 
• Created app called Dovetail X. This was to help creative and tech freelancers to team up to get work. Can set up a profile, show work and get contacted through it. 

In order to be successful must tap into passions and make use of the university to experiment.

Precarity Pilot - a good website offering advice for undergraduates finding careers.
http://precaritypilot.net/from-university-to-work/