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If this is your reaction to the challenging new economic circumstances facing small design agencies, then what you need is a healthy Designer Breakfast (and Brunch). Our new programme is all about helping designers to earn more not less in a slowing economy.
Our events for the year ahead include not just Breakfasts, but practical Brunches aimed at helping you to adapt, innovate and win through despite the recessionary tide. We'll focus on getting closer to business, the value of design thinking, how to learn from and work with each other, working smart and new pricing models.
If you're new to the site, welcome to this much-needed hub for entrepreneurial designers who want to get together to network, share advice and prepare for our monthly business breakfasts. It’s a site for small agencies with big ideas, run by designers, for designers. Click here to enter the highly regarded forums where you'll find intelligent comment from fellow designers
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March 25, 2010 Breakfast: Franco Bonadio
Franco Bonadio, CEO and creative director of Identica and formerly global creative director of The Body Shop will tell us how he combines running the business and doing the business. With his unique experience as both major client and designer he’ll tell us what’s it like being a CEO and creative director in a large international design consultancy. So if you want to hear how one of the ‘big boys’ does things, then March’s Designer Breakfast is not to be missed. To book your place at the March breakfast, please click here.
David Kester of the Design Council will be speaking at the April Breakfast and looking further ahead we will welcome Glenn Tutsell of The Brand Union (July) and Sebastian Conran (September, during the London Design Festival).
At our latest Breakfast, Maxine Horn spoke about how over the last decade she has helped designers to profit from their ideas, and the likes of Proctor & Gamble to broker deals with designers. Click here for more details.
The impressive Designer Breakfasts speaker list features the best designers in the business. Previous speakers have included Charlie Hoult, Michael Wolff, Theodora Manzaris (creative director for the Athens Olympics), former Pentagram partner John McConnell and Adrian Shaughnessy, art director and design commentator. Check out our previous events.
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“Designer Breakfasts manages to be extremely useful as well as extremely accessible - I always come away feeling optimistic and with new ideas to make my business more effective."
"Joe Ferry, Virgin's head of design, was clear and accessible and he tailored his Breakfast specifically at small businesses."
"The events are deliberately small-scale which means you can contribute easily during the session and continue the conversation afterwards."
"I realised other designers share the same experiences and that I'm not on my own."
"I came to Designer Breakfasts because it had more to offer than just networking."