RE: FLASH: Title Frenzy

[Tim Allan]

thats a tough one,


I think what you are describing is this problem within the new media ( for

want of a better word) design industry, which has symptomatic of a devloping

design discipline. In my opinion a good new media creative director would

encompass all the things you descirbed in your job description. So in

context, the creative director title would be most suitable. But because the

industry is sometimes still viewed within the framework of other more

established design disciplines, some confusion of naming, titles and job

descriptions will still occur.


Personally I would take it upon myself to grab the title of creative

director, and help define that position within this new design area.


my two cents



Tim



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Subject: FLASH: Title Frenzy



Okay Listees,


The time has come to make a small announcement to the list(s) and ask for

some help.


On March 20, 2000, I'll be leaving my company, Calypso Studios, which I

founded, to take a very generous position with a dot.com startup company in

the Boston area. I'll be selling off my company to our partnering firm.


The decision was a hard one to make, but the company made me an offer that I

would be a complete moron to turn down. It will give my wife the chance to

follow some of her childhood dreams and relocate us to the Boston area,

which we've wanted for sometime.


And no, I won't be leaving the list(s). I'll be just as active, if not

moreso than I have in the past.


So, the dilemma -- I have a blank slate to start with, both from my position

and title in the company. They are leaving it up to me to come up with a

title. My responsibilities are vast and well defined below:


<!-- a copy of the message I sent to my boss, the VP of Marketing -->


On that note, I don't want to step on any toes here, nor outside my

boundaries, but so that I'm clear and we're both on the same page, I foresee

my duties to the "family" as the look and feel of the site(s), the user

experience, strategy of the site going forward and making sure that the

future team we develop for this area adheres to the standards we set in

place and carry out the vision we have for --------, marrying the on-line

image with the physical image, if you will. Again, if I'm way off base here,

please feel free to step out and snap me back into my spot.


Thinking forward, as I have a tendency to do, a few months from now, we'll

be building a small, but very strong, team of in-house designers and

programmers (software engineers) to handle the needs of our growing site(s).

I don't foresee any immediate need for this, but again, I'm thinking forward

a few months, as we both know we have to to make our mark in this industry.


I understand it, I'll not only have traditional webmaster responsibilities

as well as creative direction, information architecture and strategy

responsibilities. So, I'm wondering if I could take a more traditional title

of Creative Director?


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The only concern is that we're trying to find a title that encompasses all

of the responsibilities listed above. William, my boss, said that I'm 110%

right on for the responsibilities I'll have, but doesn't want me to get

caught in the title of Creative Director and leave people thinking that I'm

only doing Branding/ID and Adv.


So, any suggestions...


--

Todd R. Warfel

Creative Director

Calypso Studios

http://www.calypsostudios.com

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