From the course: Insights on Illustrative Design

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Working for a large agency vs. a small firm

Working for a large agency vs. a small firm

From the course: Insights on Illustrative Design

Working for a large agency vs. a small firm

I've never worked inside a large agency. I work with large agencies all the time, but I have worked within, like, a inhouse art department of like, 30 artists. when I worked at Upper Deck in California, the, we had about 40 artists in the department. And, the dynamic between that is there's a whole lot more politics. You know, you, you deal with a lot of egos within marketing, you know, you kind of wrestle with marketing directors who are trying to play art director. you wrestle with VPs of creative who couldn't design their way out of a wet paper bag. But they're wanting you to align with somebody, what somebody else is saying that isn't a good idea, and only because it's just going to, you know, benefit them in the long run. So, there is a lot of those kind of dynamics and politics that I really don't like that kind of get in the way of pure creative work. But that said there's a lot of budgets and certain types of projects that you just never really get to approach when you're at…

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