View Creative

Company: View Creative
Type: Graphic Design for Print and Web, identity and branding.
Based: Llandudno, Wales
Staff: 11 Graphic Designers, 6 Web designers, 1 Marketing Executive, 1 business Developer and 3 support staff.


View Creative is an award winning multi-discipline creative agency specialising in ideas-led solutions for print, web and interactive design.
Our team is a collective of 11 graphic designers, 6 web designers, 1 marketing executive, 1 business developer and 3 support staff, all with one thing in common ... a passion for design.

View are almost "local" so in that respect are very interesting to me and my situation. I have visited them, and have met Neil who used to be a design student at NWSAD. From my visit there, it appeared that the most interesting work there is carried out by the "creatives" who are all in the print side of things. The work Neil has done is very good, and I would like to be able to aspire to that type of image creation.

Their web team develop the design work made by the creative people such as Neil, and make sites tailored to the marketplace. They get a lot of Welsh companies who can get funding via the EEC and the Welsh Development Agency to get websites up and running. There is nothing wrong with this, but I would ideally like to be able to do more of the creative work and not just web coding and development.

I contacted them to ask about working conditions:

working hours 9 - 5:30pm plus overtime if there are deadlines to meet or loads on.

All the print designers are permanent, and they also occasionally add extra freelancers if busy. Half of the Web staff are permanent, the rest are freelance with regular weekly work, plus they also hire the odd specialist if required.

Salary details I haven't been able to obtain, although I will keep nosing to see if I can find out!

Pros: A good company within commutable distance. They seem to be onto a good thing getting the bilingual work in, so they look like they might prosper.

Cons: Their web side appears to be a limited for someone with creative ambition (e.g. I would be keen to be able to create the images as well as work on the site development). If I were to work there, I'd want to work in the print design side, or persuade them that i could have a more creative role.