We started the first day with a trip to Adam and Eve DDB Ad Agency, to meet with Daniel Moorey who is head of print, and the art buyer there. He discussed the way the industry works and the methods he uses to go about finding illustrators appropriate for each job by showing us his book marks and the way he categorises different work. He also talked about illustrators websites, and reiterated a lot of the points that I found when doing my own website research including simplicity , and ease of navigation, as well as having small or medium sized thumbnails of work to allow the viewer to select images that they want to look at closer whilst still being able to see the whole body of work at one time. He also pointed out that if you have two different ways of working you should have them obviously separated within your site, or even create a separate one for each.
On the second day we visited Naomi Games' house, where she keeps the archive of her father Abram Games. We had the privilege of looking through his working drawings, colour ideas processes and final poster designs with Naomi talking us through the different projects and his thinking within them. We also were lucky enough to watch her make coffee in Games' iconic Cona coffee maker which he designed by modifying the original structure. It was incredible to see the amount of work and many variations of each design that he went through, and the huge amount of skill and talent that he had when using his airbrush (which we were also allowed to examine). It was an absolute pleasure and thank you to Naomi for having us!
After the wonderful experiences we had here, the thing I enjoyed the most was getting to have one final trip away with my class before we graduate. I'm really going to miss being in this environment and seeing all these wonderful people everyday, and am very aware of how lucky I am to have had such a positive and fulfilling university experience.
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