Atelier Works Grrrr
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- Fidget-design
I turn to the sports section of Design Week this morning and see a job post for a designer at Atelier Works, but only apply if you have "experience in a named agency". What the fuck does it matter what agency your from, surely its the work that the designer produces, and the correct attitude.
Atelier Works should get off their fucking pedistall, this kind of arrogance puts young designers right off.
Thank you
Fidget
- uncle_helv0
Tut-tut! I have the upmost respect for Atelier Works, but that does seem a bit unfair, arrogant approach to what you'd expect to be a open minded agency, wwhat is classed as a named agency, press coverage? awards? phah!
- delilah0
elitist 'ankers
- Fidget-design0
Exactly Mr. Helv, Some of the best agencies do not worry even about the press as well.
Don't get me wrong I think their work is great, but this kind of shear arrogance really gets my goat.
Designer Snobs
- save0
Agreed.....cunts!!!!
- Fidget-design0
Not to slag off people but I have on good advice that Quentin Newark is a arrogant prat anyway
- save0
Then why work there?
- rabattski0
interesting. it is quite rude although i think it shouldn't be seen as elitist. then again i do not know the details however i do know why agencies choose such a tactic. it's basically filtering. lowering the numbers of the applications / increasing the average quality of the ones who apply. they obviously don't want rookies and they want quality. this way they surf on the work already done by the other named agency, if the person already made their company plus has some added value by working there they get more quality. something along those lines is what i think is the motivation behind it. again, quite rude and a bit unfair.
- Fidget-design0
Anything is better than my current boss.
Plus the work they do is really nice and the client base is healthy.
If he is as good as people he says then I can forgive arrogance. One can still learn alot from a prat just filter and ignore the rubbish.
- honest0
hey, i worked in-house for MacDonalds, that's a big name right?
- The_Separatist0
Named agency? Most agencies have names, so let's all apply!
- boiconet0
Sounds like they want someone whose just jumped ship rather than washed up on shore. Fair 'Nuff. If you're confident enough about your folio, what's the ahrm in introducing yourself anyway?
2 Years experience isn't very long.
- rabattski0
true boiconet, you could always try, luck favours the prepared. most job applications are full of it anyways. dunno if you ever checked applications in the business field but that's even worse, most of the time filled with mathematical impossibilities, such as looking for freshly graduated students with 10 years of experience etc. (i've seriously read that a couple of times btw).
- boiconet0
My housemate's a 'Web Interface' type chick and she was reading out some of the jobs she was looking at and it was like every obscure coding language under the sun, and Photoshop, and Design Skills, and sense of humour, and ability to make good cup of tea...
I think she felt a bit like, 'oh, cock off'.
- rabattski0
regarding applications: if they say: "we offer good secondary working conditions" it actually means "our wages are very low".