Kerr|Noble call it a day.
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- Horp
Personally I think that's a great loss to the London creative scene. They were one of the precious few studios who's work seemed always to be consistently enjoyable, always of the highest quality and never slavish to current trends.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/…
Apologies if this has already been posted. Blame the Filter function, and please... be inventive with your protestations.
- digdre0
Duval Guillaime is also laying off about 10% in belgium and ny I heard somewhere..
- Horp0
^ They claim it is not due to the recession nor personal issues but due to changing lifestyle circumstances.
- only fools believe that.digdre
- I read a whole blogcomment from the owner, andredigdre
- andre me rien mon chiendigdre
- 'my' and 'arse'babaganush
- uberdesigner0
any work examples?
- Horp0
* BumpfortheUKQoobs
- BaskerviIle0
My friend told me last week, he works/worked there. Bummer for him. Not exactly a nice time to tell your staff they have no job!
- moth0
Surely the wise thing to do is sell the company? Not just ditch it..
- Horp0
^ I guess so Moth, but probably only if there's someone who wants to buy it. I would imagine companies such as this have very little value in the current climate and buyers would be very thin on the ground.
- Dancer0
Yeah Kerr|Noble were constantly doing good work and never "in" the mould... I remember getting an interview for a job there but when they realised I was a junior Frith kindly admitted there and then that she made a mistake as she needed someone to take on projects for them. She was mistaken because one of my projects on my CV was for the design museum and was a university project and not a live brief. She was very upfront and gave me some great advice. Some would've just let me keep going and then never got back to me. Had a veerrry small studio though
- 3point141590
Merry Christmas!
- Horp0
The creative landscape is really going to shift over the next twelve months I reckon. I have a feeling we might see a return to single creative practitioners with a more cost effective set up. Small to middle sized players just wont not have the benefit of scale in either direction.
Its amazing how your basic monthly needs mutate beyond all recognition just by employing even a couple of members of staff.
A friend of mine set up a design business in 2002. Started off with just two of them. I think it was three years later when I caught up with him and he had a small team of full time people. That meant he had to have a big enough premises for two directors and (maybe) four designers. So suddenly he had a massive rent and business rates bill to pay, four salaries, overheads and costs, insurances, corporation tax, pension schemes etc etc and directors wages and dividends (if there was anything left to make it all worth their while).
I may have mis-remembered but I seem to recall he said his modest little company had to clear 18k a month just to stay in business.
When you consider how many people are out there hustling for the work, and how easy it would be for someone to work from home and undercut you hugely, its amazing anyone manages to remain in business along traditional lines.
Mind you, he's still in business as far as I know.
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