Ben Cox visit notes

• The talk mostly confirmed what I thought I knew about the structure of agencies. 
• When looking over my folio, he seemed a little concerned at first that it was inconsistent. I think this was mostly in the different usage of media. However, hopefully at not too much of a push, he said that he understood it, and I suppose got the 'vibe' of it, and was mostly positive.  The piece he liked the most was this one, and he spent the most time looking over it:

• I can see it as a piece that has commercial value. Not that he would be put off as a viewer by anything else, but he was quite open about the business nature of an agency and that's completely understandable.
• I am still concerned that my portfolio isn't something likely to get me jobs- that the commercial looking work is few and far between and that the other *styles* would put someone off hiring me. Nonetheless, I don't particularly want to split my work off, when doing different things is really what keeps me going as a creative. I'm aware that he had suggested to a few people that they split their work into different entities, so maybe he at least doesn't see it as that disparate that it would require that. 

• He also suggested that I mock up pieces into their contexts, i.e. editorial in a newspaper setting.  I'm at a point where I realise I'm going to be suggested to do a lot of different things by different people. Some will say [art directors want opportunity, and they themselves can imagine a piece where they see fit] and [art directors do not have the time, show them an editorial as an editorial, show them a book illustration in a book] etc.
• My instinct lies with the former idea, at least in the printed format. Because my online folio is bigger and more edit-able I could put some mock ups there too, but they're not so... committed.