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If this is your reaction to the challenging new economic circumstances facing small design agencies, then what you need is a healthy Designer Breakfast (and Brunch). Our new programme is all about helping designers to earn more not less in a slowing economy.
Our events for the year ahead include not just Breakfasts, but practical Brunches aimed at helping you to adapt, innovate and win through despite the recessionary tide. We'll focus on getting closer to business, the value of design thinking, how to learn from and work with each other, working smart and new pricing models.
If you're new to the site, welcome to this much-needed hub for entrepreneurial designers who want to get together to network, share advice and prepare for our monthly business breakfasts. It’s a site for small agencies with big ideas, run by designers, for designers. Click here to enter the highly regarded forums where you'll find intelligent comment from fellow designers
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September 18: Tendering for Olympic projects
Designer Breakfasts takes a break in August but we're back in September, welcoming key figures in public sector procurement to spark a campaign for more small design businesses to get a piece of the Olympic action. Click here to register.
We are co-creating our events and have launched the Designer Breakfasts wiki, an online discussion area where anybody can edit or add to the list of discussion topics, questions, policies and reading material and suggest speakers for future events. Right now we'd like you to help us shape a response to the Government's New Talents for the New Economy report. The invite key is croissant.
Sustainability guru Jonathon Porritt (pictured) told our latest breakfasters that the downturn in the economy actually offers a brilliant chance to make your mark - as clients think about doing better with less your ideas and vision will be worth a premium. Out goes profligacy and 'client dependency syndrome', in comes ingenuity, elegant frugality and playing a pivotal role in a sustainable future.Go here for more details.
The impressive Designer Breakfasts speaker list features the best designers in the business. Previous speakers have included Charlie Hoult, Michael Wolff, Theodora Manzaris (creative director for the Athens Olympics), former Pentagram partner John McConnell and Adrian Shaughnessy, art director and design commentator. Check out our previous events.
- Flexible agency
Is this the end for bricks and mortar agencies? - Kitbag
Here's a nice little gizmo for your MacBook... - At the moment most designers are engaged as suppliers... they respond to the client's brief.
I don't think we get real innovation using this structure - The creativity process
Are you a dreamer, a critic or a realist?
“I can recommend DesignerBreakfasts to client-side and agency-side folk who are looking for debate on the issues that matter for creatives.” Charlie Hoult, Loewy
"Joe Ferry, Virgin's head of design, was clear and accessible and he tailored his Breakfast specifically at small businesses."
"The events are deliberately small-scale which means you can contribute easily during the session and continue the conversation afterwards."
"I realised other designers share the same experiences and that I'm not on my own."
"I came to Designer Breakfasts because it had more to offer than just networking."