Sabam (copyright organization in Belgium) wants to charge day care institutions for listening to the radio, or music in general.
Leen Verbist, council for youth in Antwerp, didn’t like this decision and asked us to build a website where people can download copyright-free songs for children. 30 volunteers (young and a bit older) sang a bunch of songs. The professional recordings took place on June 23th at Trix in Antwerp.
We accepted this challenge without any fee, because we liked the idea behind it. Yes, we have feelings too!
We created www.liedjesvoorkinderen.be
We would like to spread this message and that’s why we need your help: Tweet it, Share it, Bookmark it, … Do it for the children, do it for the future, just do it. Thank you!
This tool is not new, but very handy. Especially when you’re looking for quality pics with certain colors schemes. Just select up to 10 colors and this tool will search the huge Flickr database for pictures with a creative common licence! This is very handy to create mood boards, or to find dummy pictures for your design.
The advertising industry is a service industry and a designer is hired to provide the creativity that others lack, for a fee. We need to remember that we are offering our creativity for the client’s use to serve that client and express the clients ideas and concepts in a way that they would if they could. It is not about the designer, it is about the client and their need to communicate a message to their target audience. (by charene.net)
Hmmm…. Nice one charene !!! Believe me: It is not easy to find the balance between artistic freedom and advertising. The often-troubled relationship between accounts and designers proofs this.
So the client holds the universal truth because he pays the bills? Or does the agency has to guide the client (otherwise why does he need an agency)? Think about this!
Yesterday, the Cowboys organized an event for stair lift producer Stannah. Richard Seymour, co-founder of the London based Seymour-Powell product design agency, gave an inspirational talk about design. Seymour-Powell created some of the most iconic products of the last 25 years, including the world’s first cordless kettle, pocket mobile phone and Bioform Bra.
Beside the fact that Seymour looks like Lemmy from Motorhead, his presentation was very interesting and straight to the point. In other words, Richard is a big man…
This movie shows another presentation by Seymour at Coventry University where he talks about the challenges and responsibilities of designers in the future.
