RMIT GRADUATION EXHIBITION
New graduates and leading industry figures gathered at ACMI in Melbourne’s Federation Square on Friday 7th November for the Opening of RMIT University’s Advertising-Creative Graduate Exhibition.
Graduating students Timothy Alford (left) and Alex Pavone (right) with Peter Sorenson, International Projects Coordinator at RMIT’s School of Applied Communication and Leah Boulton, Ginger Productions.
Bachelor of Communication (Advertising) Program Coordinator Jill Powell and Christy Peacock, President of the Melbourne Advertising and Design Club (who opened the exhibition)
OBM Advertising’s Ben Crockett (Art Director), Claire De La Roche (Designer/Finished Artist), Chrissie Feagins (Creative Director) and Alex Goddard (Traffic Manager).
The Exhibition Organizing Committee: Graduates (clockwise) Jacqui Daniel, Cat Angel, Amelia Birrell, Myra Hood.
Student award judges (left to right): Kim Chatwin-Smith (Blue Mushroom), Leah Boulton (Ginger Productions), Dara Donnelly (Futurebrand), Chrissie Feagins (OBM), Tait Ischa (The Surgery).
All photos by Hannah Schlesinger.
29 Comments
Re: this post and others.
Bagging student work/ideas should be banned from this blog.
It is ugly, nasty and stupid.
Once you’re in the industry, your work is fair game.
Until then, we and by extension this blog, should be nothing but courteous and welcoming.
Fucking Hell.
Is that not just kind of really obvious?
Whilst I appreciate your sentiment, the first thing I was told way back when was toughen up. Get used to being constantly told your work is shit, because it’ll happen.
Sometimes it’s constructive, sometimes it’s vindictive. I copped both within meeting two CDs on the first trip out with my book.
It might be nice to wrap them in cotton wool, but the sad fact is, they’ll cop shit for the rest of their lives.
Look at Droga,he’s still copping it (over those mystical VB ads) despite his fame, fortune and success.
Wow. Top right, very hot
Wow. Top right, straight to CumminsNitro.
Ben, I agree somewhat, but it’s up to us (the young people) to change that 80s management mentality.
It’s not hard to steer someone without reducing them to tears. Plus creatively, gentle encouragement in the right direction has always worked better for anyone I’m directing than berating them for being wrong.
That includes photographers, directors, mac ops, designers, suits as well as junior teams.
I know myself if someone rips the crap out of me it freezes up my thinking where as a few words of positive ‘that’s great, let’s leave it for now and do an even better one’ spurs me on and inspires me.
Different management styles I guess, maybe that’s why you feel you’re copping shit for the rest of your life and I’m quite content in my job.
Ben.
I have no issue with a CD tearing you a new arse if they think your work is crap.
That wouldn’t be my style (I’m not a CD, by the way), but that’s their prerogative.
There is a big difference between a CD ripping into someone’s work in a face-to-face meeting and an anonymous dip shit doing so on a blog.
That’s the lame work of a coward.
So fuck off.
(That last bit was to further help toughen you up).
I agree with you 8:13. These guys have done a great job finishing their degrees and I wish them well in the big wide world. I’m sure they already know that it’s a tough industry but I think just ripping into people’s work, when they’re just starting out isn’t cool. I’m very appreciative to the CD’s who gave me my first jobs and were so encouraging. I’m a better creative for it.
I reckon Christy could get a gig as the next James Bond.
I agree with you 10:41.
A Bond film? Yes 12.25. But I’m thinking he’d suit a part that required a fluffy cat in his lap.
12.08 Thanks.
Obviously I wouldn’t here without a bit of ‘character building’ from CD’s myself, all I was saying is I find I get more from my staff with positive encouragement than being a big girl about things. You don’t need to be a dick to be the man.
When people’s minds are freed up it makes the creative process more fun and you get better ideas. But that’s just IMHO.
Now I’m sorry if people don’t like your work on the blog but maybe you should name yourself and reply to their posts, not mine. Or just leave your pearls at home until Cannes…
Seriously, there’s too many Ben’s in this place. The rest of you use a nickname from now on!
I like to eat cats.
12-25 and 12-34.
Surely more Mr Bean than 007?
I call shotgun on Ben.
So fuck off Ben and Ben and Ben, I called it.
Hang on Ben. If you’re calling shotgun on Ben, doesn’t that mean you want to be Ben’s sidekick? So you’ve just nominated yourself to be Ben2.
Top right gets some help from second from right
To all you BENs, why not try:
BENNO
BENNY
BENJI
BENJAMIN
or
CUZ
…”rather than being a big girl about it” ????
I’m a big girl. Something wrong with that? I hazard a guess it’s all the little boys on this blog who do most of the sooking, not the big girls.
Chrispy:
I sense eyebrow envy. They are beauties.
Sorry Ben, but 8.23 is right. Looks like you’re in the back seat son.
Christy needs to get himself the new apple iBrow. Much smaller than the previous ones.
Calling a bloke a ‘big girl’ is the equivalent of calling them a sook. I wouldn’t take offense.
I had fish for lunch. Maybe you could post a story about that, Lynchy.
Couldn’t be any more boring than this old story.
2.11, he’s doing Browember.
Tell me about that fish…
while we’re wasting time on here, other people are doing cool stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/bk
And we wonder why Melbourne advertising sucks.
Good luck RMIT grads. If these posts are any indication of your new industry you are deep shit.
Today’s Thursday, this was posted on Monday. Surely something has happened in the industry worth posting about this week?
I know, how about posting the new VB ads that Drogas done?