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Creative Partners: Contract

Thomas Squire and Great Medelyte
Brief: L'artisan Parfumeur

Why have you chosen to work with each other?
Greta
  • Wants to win
  • Different in style and how we approach design
  • "Tom keeps me under control"
  • "Tom can leverage my creativity into something realistic"
  • Good range of software skills including After Effects
Thomas
  • Good at conceptual thinking
  • "Greta works the way I used to work at A Level and I want to get back to this" 
  • "She likes to work with a range of different media"
  • "She has a crazy and creative personality" 

What are your specific area of creative interest in the this brief? 
Greta
  • Conceptualisation
  • Presentation skills
  • Thinking about graphic design through distribution
  • Working with 3D media
Thomas
  • Software skills
  • Quality of finishing
  • Name thinking
  • Typography
  • Type and grid

What specific design skills do you have to offer in relation to your chosen brief? How do you intend to use them?
Greta
  • Photography - Final shots of our proposal
  • Crafting
  • Thinking in 3D - Packaging and bottle design 
  • After Effects + Video - Showing the final product in a digital format
  • Screen printing - Potentially for creating packaging
  • Laser cut - Creating nets for packaging and potentially the bottle design
  • Foiling - Packaging Finishing
Thomas
  • Crafting - Production of the final piece
  • Thinking in 3D - designing and manufacturing the packaging 
  • Sketching - Bottle and packaging ideas
  • Type and grid - Packaging layout and presentation board layouts
  • Software skills - Used throughout
  • Vacuum forming - Packaging and bottle design
  • Foiling - Packaging finishing 

What specific non-design skills do you have to offer in relation to your chosen brief? How do you intend to use them?
Greta
  • Communication skills - Used within crits
  • Motivation and positivity - Get us both through the brief and get us through our lowest points
  • Driven when given a specific task to get on with
  • Cultural background and well travelled
Thomas 
  • Time management
  • Written communication skills
  • Organisation
  • Logical and structural thinking
  • Saying no but not demotivating


What will your specific roles be in the collaboration in relation to your brief?
Greta
  • Getting things done within practical work shops
  • Ideas
Thomas
  • Time management and organisation
  • Production quality 
  • realist

What will you individual responsilbites be in relation to your brief?
Greta
  • Blogging 
  • Research
  • Idea generation
  • Crafting
  • Making
  • Photography
Thomas
  • Blogging 
  • Research
  • Ideas
  • Finishing
  • Digital production of design
  • Presentation boards

What will your joint resposibilites be? 
We agree to... Communicate with each other on a regular basis, dedication of time to this brief, generate ideas, make decision based on who has higher skills within the area of the decision, mee the deadline with a successful design 

Signed by both me and Greta 

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