Marlin Persson is the Glug HQ coordinator. She is originally from Sweden and graduated there. In 2010, Malin in 2010, she attended Billy Blue College of Design in Sydney and studied Communication Design as a foundation degree.
After she was done with her foundation degree, she attended London Ravensbourne, studying Graphic design
After she finished her degree, she didn't know what to do. She saw on Facebook that a friend of hers had spoken about a Glug event. Malin attended the Glug event and liked the content, speakers and the concept of Glug which had then led her to work at Glug and has been there for 2.5 years.
In the design industry she gave us some advice which were to dare to ask about business, money, projects that you aren’t involved in and extra curricular opportunities. She believes that context leads to confidence and that you should be your own cheerleader. Change routine - say yes more than no. Go to events.
Cari Kirby is a marketing manager at Team Cooper in Sheffield. She studied Media and Politics at university.
Cari got into her current job at Team Cooper after having her child, she wanted flexibility - a balance between work life and being a mum.
She went back to work for 4 days a week as account executive - after 11 months after having child but she no longer felt that she liked the job she was doing and as it didn't allow her to be as flexible as she wanted so she handed in notice and did freelancing.
Whilst Cari was freelancing, she saw an advertisement aimed at women who were on maternity and wanted to get back into work. Team Cooper is a place where it has allowed Cari to be flexible in her work and she enjoys what she does. Her advice was to surround yourself with people in the same position and speak about it so that way, you don't feel alone.
Olivia Downing is a copywriter for a advertising agency. She created 'Chicks in Advertising' which is all about female empowerment in the design industry and is a space that allows women to support one another. She helps to advertise for other people.
Olivia said that it’s important to adapt and have empathy to a lot of different people and relate to people from a small frame of time and the more places that you go on your own, the more opportunities you will have.
Ellen Ling grew up in Harrow on the Hill and used to work at D&AD New Blood but now is a creative copywriter at LOVE Manchester. She has worked on the designs for Simply B and Peri A. which she and Tess collaborated on to create the branding.
She originally went to Drama school as wanted to be an actress - she did performance art for 4 years.
After doing unpaid internships for sometime, she got a job as an admin for Damian Hurst which she said she was working with hipsters for 4 months but then was been made redundant.
She later got a job at D&AD New Blood as an admin worker but it inspired her to want to be a copywriter instead so after a while, she got a job at LOVE Manchester as a copywriter.
She said she was inspired by Alec's (Intern) quote “If you’re not hearing different points of view, then it’s alarm bells you should be hearing instead".
The advice that she had given us was:
- when you are given a brief, solve it, figure it out - be a detective.
- Work out who you are. Be that.
- Don’t hope. Do.
- Be the dumbest person in the room.
- You learn nothing when you try to know everything.
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