PPP3: Working with Redman Design

I have currently completed three breifs for Redman Design.
I will analyse my contributions to each brief, and how I communicated with the client on each occasion.

Redman has commisioned me to produce illustrations for their clientelle; museums. This has meant that in order to contact me, clients have spoken indirectly through Redmen.

1. WW1 & WW2 Digital Wallpaper

Redman were extrmely prompt in returning my emails, I realise now that I was perhaps the one who could have been more logical in my correspondance; perhaps choosing a particular day or time to send artwork, rather than sending immediately after I deemed it finished.

Redman sent me a purchase order early into the project and gave me the fixed budget for the agreed artwork. Although I did not sign anything, there was at least an email-based agreement.

The representation from the museum made increasingly specific suggestions for the artwork, until the final image had only a passing resemblance for the original proposed image. I am not dissapointed by these changes, however I realise it would have been more professional of me to send at least three initial versions of the composition to give the museum more to think over, this would have guided their decision and improved my own consideration of the brief.

2. Sandbags / Refuge Room

This brief was the second for the Dunfermline Museum, it also resulted in several changes to the artwork, however I was far more pleased with my eventual result. I produced the image in vector format due to the ease of the file transfer. It was during this time I became worried about payment, but I chose not to pester Redman or the Museum as they had explained that the funding came from the council, which genrally means a lot of beurocracy.

3. Ground Marshall

Again, I made the mistake of proposing one version of the image. This resulted in the image undergoing several changes, but it was certainly a welcome exploration of anatomy. For this brief I worked with a different employee of Redman, although there was no real difference, as they still passed on information from the client as usual.