Ste Owen - Love creative

On Wednesday 28th April myself and Amy organised a visit to see Ste Owen at Love creative. We were aware that at Love a lot of advertising work is done and as we have previously been told our work is very advertise based we thought this was a good idea.

We were greeted by Ste at the door of Love and then went and sat down around a table n began speaking about what we were up to at the moment and as it is close to deadline we spoke about that and how we were getting on. We then began to speak about the lorry show that is being organised at the moment - he found this very interesting. As Ste is an ex member of Stockport College he knows a lot about how the college works. He assured us that he would come down to the show we have at Stockport to see the work. I thought this was great.

Eventually we began to show Ste through our work. He pointed out that although a lot of the work is advertising a lot of design work has gone into it so he told us not to concentrate on just advertising. He also pointed out that it is best to keep a portfolio clean and with nice space. This includes the writing at the bottom. On my current portfolio I have a description on the bottom explaining each brief and how I went about solving it. A good point Ste made was that this is not needed if you are there to explain as the person looking at it sometimes ends up reading it instead of looking at the work. Obviously for a digital portfolio the explanation should be put in.

Ste liked aspects of our work and said it was a great portfolio. He has passed us on a contact for dinosaur who I am to be in contact with.

Ste then took us on a small tour around the studio - it was a lot bigger than I expected. Love has recently taken on a new member of staff who had been working there on placement.