To all designers, whether you have worked in the industry for over ten years, a creative director, a university lecturer, final year student, currently doing placements or have just started a career in design. I would love to hear your thoughts. The aim is to do video recorded messages, it can be through your mac/pc camera or an iphone (max 1min). You are free to voice out anything in your message and to be as creative as you want.

The videos will then be published on my website alongside with a wall full of video entries. It will act as a study into the recession within design and the creative industry, it can be easily accessible and shared.

Until we see a sign of recovery within our economy it may be 1yr or 2yrs… or 5yrs down the line, I will request for you to re-make another video to see your progress and career developments and this will draw a comparison and conclude the study. We’re living through it now and I feel it’s worth documenting it and it will indefinitely be part of our history. It just takes a minute!

I truly hope that you are able to contribute, I believe that it’s not only important to know the statistics but to understand fully of what is going on and know how best to ride out the recession. I hope that it will be a good platform to share your views.

Please record your video, label it with your full name and send it to: mail@edshek.com

I look forward to seeing your video entries and they will be published here on August 31.

Many thanks

Ed