After quickly setting up our stand and art directing it, The stand looked great. We got some lovely comments about it. So all geared up with 100 business cards and portfolios bound we waited for the VIP night to begin and to hopefully grab some agency's attention. We got a bit of interest and a few contacts which we can follow up. Special mention to mike and phil. Nice to see you guys.
Tuesday
A day of rest/check out the competition/British Museum. Commence photos...
Wednesday
Portfolio surgery with Augusto from Mother. Wow, what a cool guy with a great Brazilian accent. He gave us some tips and said that our book is better than his was when he graduated, so that gave me a warm fuzzy feeling but we know we have a hell of a way to go until we are really happy and proud of all our work. Later that night I was off to see Madonna at Covent Garden, well some naked photos of her. The pictures were taken before she was famous at the age of 20 when she posed as a nude model for just $30. The photographs have only just been released for the public to see. Really nice photography by Martin Schreiber, I just wish that I had the finances to purchase a print.
Thursday
Today begun with a few workshops. The first being a session giving tips on interview skills and presentation techniques. I really enjoyed it and both Mandy Wheeler and Patrick from NavyBlue made all those pre-book crit worries fade away with their advice. I left feeling positive and ready for action. The second workshop consisted of ex students describing how they made it and tips to get into the industry. Both of them had different experiences of how they got in, but it both came down to hard work and persistence that got them a job.
The week was topped off with the award ceremony in the evening. My heart was pounding and with two categories to sit through, I was getting more and more nervous by the second. But the results... well I am now a proud owner of TWO D&AD PENCILS!
9 comments:
Bloody hell Em!
I'm stunned! Congratulations, doesn't seem to quite cut it!
Sorry we got cut short in our convo too, blame Phil for that one :)
yeh phil is so rude. ha ha. nah seriously not a problem. nice to have a good chat!
Im quite stunned myself. I haven't let them go out of my sight yet and the award money means i can finally buy myself a proper nice bike (complete with wicker basket!).so happiness all the way around!
Really well done. We came by on Tuesday to have a chat, but sadly couldn't see you around.
We liked the theme and it's nice to see some good work win the pencil(S).
thanks luke n wilf. I wasn't at the exhibition much Tuesday i went galavanting looking at Egyptian mummies at the British Museum. How did u guys find new blood? many contacts?
Congrats on the Pencils! I am infinitely jealous!
huge congratulations from the ever-failing, jpandtem!
see you in london
hey, but you haven't posted the work you won them for. have you?
hi Kedar,
Please go to...
churchesmccarthy.blogspot.com
You will see the Tap water "getting to grips" brief that won first and Llyods "comfort for the real world" ambient brief that won second.
make that:
churchesmccarthy.carbonmade.com
not.blogspot
phew!
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