PPP3: Studio Visit- DBA Presentation at Thompson Brand Partners Studios

The members of my DBA group have been approached by Ian at Thompson Brand Partners Studio through Amber to see whether we would like to go and visit their studio to present our work to them.

Initial Organisation

We were very surprised yet quite proud and excited by the prospect of being able to visit a studio and present our work to them, especially because someone has thought that a piece of work we have done is good enough to show to the rest of their team.

From the initial email contact, Adam went on to organise a day and time for us to go and visit as he is organising a placement with them. Before the visit, we met up as a group and managed to get some practice in before we presented it to the studio.

Visiting with our Presentation

While on the visit, we presented our presentation to a few of the designers who in turn asked us a lot of questions and gave comments and feedback about the work that we had produced. A lot of the things that they pointed out were things that we hadn't actually considered at the time, such as the angle of the chevron in the logo and how it doesn't point directly north and, in a way, gave us a completely fresh perspective which would have been very handy at the time of designing for the brief.

In regards to feedback, we got a lot of positive comments towards our work, not just about how our work was very cohesive and how it was consistent in visual quality the whole way through, but how we worked together as a team. We were told that it was very obvious just from looking at the work that we clearly worked very well together as a team. This was more obvious as we had managed to come up with an idea that we all agreed would be the best and work with that rather than us all wanting our ideas to be used, which we were told was a great trait to have if we could identify other ideas better than our own and putting the success of the team before our egos.

Perhaps what was the biggest compliment of them all was that we were told that we should all have this brief within our portfolios as this was a piece of work that could easily get you a job. That was quite a proud moment for us all as a team as this is what we want to achieve and aim for at the end of our degrees so to suggest that this piece of work is strong enough to do so is quite overwhelming. With that, we were advised to present the brief in a way in which would allow us to describe what elements we had done individually as well as as a group so that this way it would allow us to discuss it from our individual experience.

Following the presentation, we were given a tour around the actual studios which are small but extremely clean and open with a friendly atmosphere. Also, Ian asked us all to give our email addresses to him so that we would be able to stay in touch. He offered to look at any portfolios we had to give feedback and told us to contact him if we have any questions. I think it is lovely that he is so welcoming and helpful to students as this would be some invaluable help and I think I am going to take up his offer nearer the time of the end of year show when putting my final portfolio together.