Gday from Jay!

[intensed]

Hey all,

My name is Jay and I work within a boutique design agency in Melbourne's artistic and antique focused Armadale hot spot. It's called Intense Design - http://www.intensedesign.com.au.We produce high quality design creative within the web, print and motion channels of business communication.

I have been with Intense Design as the new media director since 2001 and am very interested in meeting people who...
A. Love communicating creatively
B. May want to consider a change to their business through design
C. Love Scotch
D. Enjoy breakfast on a Sunday (no matter what time)

Any questions or comments, buzz me at Intense Design on 03 9500 9998.

Looking forward to meeting you all at The Hive meetings and events!

[Slade]

Hey Jay, welcome to AT.. so what have you found one of your biggest challenges to running your own business?

[intensed]

Good question!

Normally, people would probably say deadlines, payments, finding clients, and delivering on time.

In our case, it's gaining valid, timely and reliable content from clients. As content is one of the most annoying parts of any design (in terms of supply), getting the content from clients can be a difficult task. That is why we now have a system called "Content Collection". It's a pretty straight-forward solution to make writing content fun, reliable and accurate.

Once you've got the content too, its about making sure you design based on the content delivered, requesting a resupply if the content is not correct (either wrong, spelling, grammar, incorrect message), requesting a re-write, or approving the content collection and proceeding with the next stage.

Design is just one part of what we do - its all those little things that happen behind the red velvet curtain and the processes to control it to make sure the end solution is perfect.

[crackers]

The hive ay? I was there last night, did you enjoy it?

[intensed]

Was good ey! I was at the bar where you couldn't hear much...

Did you hear it all?