Comments on: I take it back (new business card)

By: Jo Ind

Jo Ind — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:04:50 +0000

That is a very good idea. Now make some mixed media business cards and let me have a peek. 🙂

By: simon gray

simon gray — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:43:39 +0000

maybe i could be a mixed media artist ?!

By: Jo Ind

Jo Ind — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:23:55 +0000

Communicator sounds entirely accurate to me and very understandable. But yes, putting “Simon Gray – communicator” on a business card would seem a bit obtuse.
What about artist? That’s what a communicator is. Could you put “multi-media artist” on your business cards?

By: simon gray

simon gray — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:11:03 +0000

Who am I and What do I do? have been difficult questions for me to answer for a long time! On my twitter and facebook bio I fudge it by just saying ‘I make noises, pictures, words, websites, and enamelled things’ – I started off as a composer and performer of music (after spending 10 years studying and teaching at Birmingham Conservatoire), decided I wanted to be a journalist as I was moving out of working in music and did the city & guilds courses, and shortly after that ended up getting a job as a web developer; now although I still work ‘on teh interwebs’, I’m not really a *developer* anymore (having been passed by in the technology department), I’m more strategy / management. And for the last year I’ve been making jewellery as well!

So basically what I am is a communicator – and I communicate in multiple media. Sounds a bit pretentious, I know, but I can’t think of a better self-description of what I do!