Design By Music http://www.designbymusic.com Design Agency Manchester Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:08:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Holding Site http://www.designbymusic.com/hello-world http://www.designbymusic.com/hello-world#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:51:42 +0000 admin http://79.170.40.234/designbymusic.com/?p=1 Continue reading →]]>
  • To do:
  • Re–do website
  • Have a meeting about it
  • Have a look at some other websites
  • Have an impromptu chat over lunch one day
  • Decide we need another meeting
  • Postpone the meeting; too much work on
  • Reschedule the meeting
  • Agree we need to sort out our work page
  • Put a meeting in to discuss how we’ll do that
  • Have a look at some other websites
  • Decide we want to do something completely different
  • Manage to have a meeting about what that is
  • Realise it’s a six month project
  • Talk about a stopgap
  • Talk about the word ‘stopgap’
  • Write about who we are and what we do
  • Make a GIF showing some of our work
  • Put it online as a sort of holding page
  • Take it down
  • Put it back up
  • Hope it gives a flavour of what we do
  • Get back to the day job
  • Tell each other we’ll have the new site up by Christmas

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  • To Do :
  • Decide to do self promotional piece
  • Spend 18 months making it happen
  • Decide which category to enter
  • Sign cheque
  • Forget about it
  • Hear about the shortlist
  • Dry clean and let out suit
  • Tie. Yes or no?
  • Buy a tie (don’t wear it)
  • Get to London
  • See BP chief in taxi queue
  • Wonder why our hotel is miles from the venue?
  • Spend half an hour trying to suss out how the air–con works
  • Meet in the hotel bar
  • Reel in awe of Anthony’s waistcoat
  • Hope to be sitting next to someone interesting
  • Hear all about photolibrary*
  • Regret not pre-ordering any wine
  • Have no wine for first hour and a half
  • Say hello to Robin
  • Remember his first day, broken toilet lock scenario
  • Wonder why the menu is set in 4pt
  • Admire Lynda’s new haircut
  • Try to control heart rate as the winner is announced
  • Try not to trip on the way to the stage!
  • Teeth and tits Susan
  • Spend ten minutes trying to tweet the result
  • Text Jord to ask him to do it
  • Meet Nick Finney from NB Studio for the first time
  • Realise how reasonable the bar prices are
  • Wonder why anyone apart from Apple bother
  • Ask Matt if Harriet really designed that?
  • Flagging, flag taxi
  • Make a really bad call on the choice of curry house
  • Back to the hotel at half three – start researching breakfast
  • Definitely leave enough time for breakfast at Carluccios
  • Have breakfast at Euston
  • Get early train back for presentation
  • Put lightbulb on shelf
  • Do some good work to enter next year
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