Snap the Dancers Competition

Happening on 20th June 2009, budding and professional photographers can experience an afternoon of fun and fast shutter action as they move from one historic room to another historic room capturing dancers in motion in the Snap the Dancers Exhibition.

Details are as follows:
Date: 20 June 2009, Saturday
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Venue: Various spaces at The Art House

The best pictures stand to win attractive prizes and will be exhibited at The Arts House Gallery from 27 June to 5 July 2009.

Click here to download the application form for the competition.

Be part of the Royal(ty) Family

“This is not acceptable!” stormed the client.

This had been a situation where TILT had faced several times in our course of work. To explain further, the situation arose due to the possible scenarios listed below.

Purchasing TILT’s Stock Library of Photographs
In our course of work, especially for web projects, we had used our stock library of photographs as part of the design for the client. When the project closed, after a period of time, the client called us back and told us that for consistent corporate branding, they wish to use a certain image for their print publication. When we tell them that it is not possible, voila! That’s when we hear the first sentence.

Why is this not possible? TILT usually purchase royalty-free images as part of our stock library. These images, even though are royalty-free, are licensed for use only on one computer. In addition, they are licensed for use only by the company who bought it and they can only use it in their course of work. We had a particular experience where we had an extremely lengthy discussion with the client explaining to them why this is not possible and after that long period of time, they still do not really understand and demand for the use of the photographs.

It’s ok, you can download the pictures off the web!
We have on several incidents encountered this as well. All photographs from the web actually have copyrights. On several occasions, we had informed the clients that downloading these photographs, even if they are high resolution enough to be used, may result in them being sued, if found out. The client simply do not believe that this may happen and, at times, insist that we do that. We naturally refused.

Why are the folks at TILT so sticky about this? That is simply because we care for the client and we do our best to advise the client. In a recent report, a businessman had asked a freelancer to do up a simple brochure about his consultancy services. The freelancer had used images from Getty Images without authorisation and the businessman now have only 1 week to pay $14,000 for the infringement of rights.

To read more about the report, click on the link below.
Businessman billed S$14k for images on website

This, unfortunately, is a piece of news which is sad for the design industry. Hopefully, clients now can understand why we charge a higher price than freelancers and hopefully, when we next explain to them, we will hear “Yes, I absolutely agree!”

Design Matters for Design Matters

TILT currently has openings for 4 positions. They are as follows:

Account Assistant

Account Executive

Account Manager

Junior Graphic Designer

Through the numerous interviews which we had been conducting over the past 2-3 weeks for these 4 positions, we had noticed something which was very interesting. Most applicants who come to us, when faced with the question “What exactly is TILT’s core business?”, will usually answer the following, Photography, Events Management, Design (in that order).

They tend to be a bit surprised when we informed them that we are a graphic design house and majority of our business is actually in print design. The next question which follows was usually “But why is it that you do not put up any of your designs on your website?”. Our answer to that is that as much as we love to, we had heard horror stories about how some companies had stolen other companies’ designs and used it for their own projects. And since there is nothing much which we can do about it, we decided that we will not put up our portfolio instead.

Well, if you are the next candidate whom we had called you up for an interview, we hope you had read this post and do let us know that you have read the post. You can also ask us why our tagline is design matters.

If you are one of our loyal followers of our blog, do recommend your friends if you think they are suitable for our job openings.

Bringing Paintball to the Hearts

A historical first happened on 17 May 2009! In fact, it was 2 historical first!

For the very first time, Singapore has witnessed a 5-men Paintball Competition! This is in line with the international tournaments where the bigger players compete often in 5-men competition. This also goes to show how paintball has been sprayed to the hearts of the public, where more and more people are now aware of what paintball is about and are playing competitively.

For the very first time too, paintball has been brought to the heartlands where members of the public can witness how a professional paintball competition is held and played. The exact location is none other than Pasir Ris Park, Native Lawn.

This is a fact that the Singapore Paintball Novice Series (SPNS) 2009 has grown since its being incorporated in 2008 and the 2 firsts epitomise exactly the extent of the growth. TILT has been very fortunate to have been able to witness this growth every step of the way. As the Official Photographer of the SPNS tournament, the number of photographers covering we have provided in covering the tournament has also increased.

In the latest leg, there was 2 photographers on site covering the competition. Considering that we were very often in the line of fire, the fact that we got shot only about 20+ times per photographer is already a saving grace. It is without a doubt that we are often caught in the cross-fire as we seek that photo which can do the competition, that Paintball Association (Singapore) organised, proud.

To read more about the results, please visit this link below.
http://www.weplaypaintball.com/SPNS.html

A new makeover

As we shift into our new office at Havelock, we have also created a brand new look for our blog! Just like how TILT continuously seek refinement and improvement through feedback from clients, websites do need constant reviews and the occasional revamps as well.

And as we blog about our new makeover, we will also like to list 2 simple reasons why you should consider revamping your website:

Look Good and Feel Good!

Attractiveness and easy to use has always been one of the key important features of your website. If the new look can make it look better, create better navigation and look professional, why not?

Control Control Control

The frustrations which you have had to wait for a company to maintain your website can now be over. More and more companies are setting up corporate blogs to showcase their information and this by itself is one of the best content management system which your staff can pick up easily!

Before we end off here, watch this space as our blog is in the final stages of being revamped!