Glasgow Meet & Greet, 11 October 2019

Speakers

Sophie Amono, sTUFFs, Glasgow - Scotland

Fee Sheal, Ladies, Wine & Design, Edinburgh - Scotland

Deborah Dawton, Design Business Association, London - England

Stuart Gilmour, Stand Design, Glasgow - Scotland

Maggie Croft, Stand Design, Glasgow - Scotland

Jonathan Sands, elmwood, Leeds - England

Chris Aukett, The Big Picture, London - England

Robin Bonn, Co:definery, London - England

Jens de Visser – Simone Lips, The People of Tomorrow, 's-Hertogenbosch - Netherlands

Peter Daams, Stora Enso, Amsterdam - Netherlands

James Godden, Sleever International, Manchester - England

Margaret Nolan, Denomination, Sydney - Australia

Julia König, KURZ, Fürth - Germany

Olivier Rollus, Ittention, Mons - Belgium

Chris Lumsden, GOOD, Glasgow - Scotland

Giles Darwin, Denomination, London - England

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The reality experienced by many designers is that design budgets are shrinking and deadlines are becoming much tighter. We have to talk to junior brand managers rather than to CEOs in boardrooms, our revenues are stagnating and a career as a designer is less attractive than it was in the past. What can be done about this? How can we communicate the value and importance of design? How can we defend our cost/value proposition? What do we need to do to convince clients that design can bring real value to their business and is a worthwhile investment?

We invited designers from as far as Australia and as close as Glasgow and heard from our peers in the design business about their approach to these and other. We gained inspiration from their success stories and learned about effective design solutions, as well as obtained ideas and advice from experts about how to convey the value of our services to clients and to what extent research can help us to convince clients of our proposition that design is value adding.

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