Establishing a charge rate for working Artists and Designers

During today's session Bridget gave us a printout from an excel Spreadsheet to work through, helping us to work out how much we would need to earn in relation to live with our current expenses. Working freelance, I would have to think about my incoming and outgoing costs alot more than I'd expected, I never realised what the term buisness expense actually meant, and how you can create boundaries between money that goes into your pocket and money that doesn't get taxed.


Considering a studio space is something I definitely want to think about for my first year after i finish my degree, sharing a studio between 4 creatives would save a lot in the long run plus it provides you with an environment designed for people in similar industries.

Enterprise Group Task

Today we were briefed with the starting point for our group module linked with enterprise and learning about Business management. Over Christmas I had got a general idea of the people I felt I would gel with when working in a group and people with a range of approaches to visual styles that would hopefully go hand in Hand.

So far working in our group is: Me, Yafet Bizrat, Dominic Rugman And Matt Tucker.

We were giving the task of coming up with a name for our business, a slogan for our business and an action plan outlining the areas we are thinking of moving towards.

Our Idea's so far, revolve around producing a Design/Music collaboration, re-vamping artists artwork and working alongside artists to help manage and promote through design. We all have friends who are in someway involved with producing their own tracks, (Mainly electronic music) so we each plan on taking one of these artists under our wing, helping to get them off their feet by obviously producing amazing pieces of design.

It would work on a (I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine) basis, where we would advertise up and coming releases by each artist on our website and they could advertise our agency through websites like soundcloud and myspace etc.

We decided on the Name 'Pardn' for our design collaberation, which is an abreviation of the word Pardner. The reasoning behind the word, is because we felt our design collaberation was all about unity, uniting two very different industries through design.

Parnder; A partner, companion, or friend.