Designing For Love or Money

A whole bunch of a young, spunky, inspiring designers are talking about ‘Money Jobs’ and ‘Love Jobs’. How and what do designers do alongside their 9-5 job? How do they breathe new life into their jobs? Give meaning to projects accepted purely for the money? The most random thing that has triggered a creative idea? The first thing they do on payday. A cheap yet effective way of self-promotion. What they do when they are not at work? What funds their ‘Love Jobs'?

Jeremy attacks this 5 x 5 ahead of this amazing line up of speakers.

Your top five "Love is..."

1. ...a well written brief

2. ...an open minded, trusting client.

3. ...a treasure, a light, a knife, a curse.

4. ...an anagram of vole. 

5. ...a battlefield, according to Pat Benatar

Five dream projects for any designer:

1. The opportunity to rebrand their own city... 

2. Anything that doesn't have to be approved by a committee

3. Opening titles for a David Fincher film.

4. One of those pet rocks that have cotton wool on the top of them and when you add water they grow grass for hair. 

5. The next Radiohead video

Five reasons that money is evil:

1. Because it dictates a huge amount of what we do and how we do it 

2. Because people are blindsided by dollar signs and aren't always aware of the true value of good design.

3. Because if you fold a five buck note the right way, the queen has pointy eyebrows, a malevolent grin and a villainous moustache.

4. Hitler used it.

5. Because I never have enough of it.

Your top five hubs of loving design in Melbourne:

1. Flinders Lane

2. Anywhere something's happening during the State of Design Festival/ AGIdeas

3. The AGDA Student Council 

4. The Melbourne Museum of Printing 

5. Right in your backyard/street, if you look hard enough.

Five interesting speakers at "For Love or Money:

1. Every

2. Single 

3. One

4. Of

5. Them (We're very selective! Go see for yourself...)

For Love or Money

6.00pm, Thursday, 3rd September 2009

RMIT Casey Plaza, Building 10, Bowen Street, Melbourne

$10 Students/ FREE AGDA Student Members / $20 General / $10 AGDA Professional Members