Industrial Brand » London-Design-Festival http://industrialbrand.com A Brand Strategy, Communication Design & Web Development Studio in Vancouver, Canada Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:17:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Is it time to go Freelance? http://industrialbrand.com/blog/is-it-time-to-go-freelance http://industrialbrand.com/blog/is-it-time-to-go-freelance#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:58:20 +0000 Haig Armen http://industrialbrand.com/blog/is-it-time-to-go-freelance In the UK, where I’ve been for the past couple of weeks, pay rates for design freelancers are up in many cases, particularly when it comes to digital disciplines, according to DesignWeek’s second annual survey.

Overall, pay increases have been extremely healthy over the last twelve months, with increases of 13% cited, and a further 9% over the next twelve months predicted. However, rates in more traditional print, branding, exhibition and retail sectors lag behind their new media equivalents, as the following tables illustrate.

Design

Position Daily Rate (London, £ per day)
Junior designer 116
Middleweight designer 172
Senior designer 223
Creative director 312

 Digital Design

Position Daily Rate (London, £ per day)
Web/Flash designer 231
Motion graphics designer 263
Art/creative director 308
Flash developer 286

The figures are taken from the 27/09/07 print edition of Design Week. The story does not yet appear to be on the magazine’s website.

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As part of the London Design Festival I attended a new opera called “The Corley Conspiracy”. The event was cowritten by a friend and collaborator Sean Starke, who is also part of the MIRROR project that I’m involved with.

Based on a true story that unfolded on Usenet bulletin boards in the early 90′s, the piece which I would hardly call an opera as its delivery is more like a play with actors speaking and accompanying music is a portrayal of a paranoid mind that raises unsettling questions about a society under surveillance. Both disturbing and darkly comic, the show was entertaining and intelligent with some great comedic moments and high calibre acting.

Congratulations Sean, nice work.

]]> http://industrialbrand.com/blog/the-corley-conspiracy/feed 0 The Replenishing Body http://industrialbrand.com/blog/the-replenishing-body http://industrialbrand.com/blog/the-replenishing-body#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:49:52 +0000 Haig Armen http://industrialbrand.com/blog/the-replenishing-body While in London for their design festival I visited an interesting interactive installation at the Beyond the Valley showroom. The installation was put on by SHOWstudios, who’s Head of Interactive Ross Phillips I met at the iDesign conference. The piece is a collaboration with Evian (the people that bring us expensive water) and uses 1 minute user-generated video loops to create a composition which displays in a public window and is also uploaded to the SHOWstudio site. A grid collage of moving snapshots is created by users recording a close-up section of their own face or body part.

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It’s a simple concept with a good delivery. The touchscreen interface for recording the video to the system is very easy to use and the final outcome is fun and dynamic.

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