The Client is responsible for making initial contact with the artist.

In this exercise, students will explore the difficulties in communicating with clients by taking the roles of artist and client in a creative experiment.

Designate who in the group will perform the function of “client” first, and who will be the “artist.” During the work, the artist and client are separated to ramp up the complexity of the communication. Each of the following steps will be repeated by reversing the roles once the first round has been completed. Students will be graded on the effectiveness of the communication, as evidenced in various parts of the paper trail including the brief, the bid, and the invoice.

Details on the Master & Servant in pdf format

The Process

The Creative Brief

The Initial Contact

The Bid

The Work

The Review Process

The Invoice

The Postmortem

As Client --

you are judged on the quality of the Creative Brief (hand in written copy) and communication ability (how accurate is the final to the proposal?), and secrecy, where possible.

Remember --

You are all being graded on your paper trails, so keep EVERYTHING you communicate, (including notes/re-caps of conversations and meetings).

You will be turning in ALL of it.

As Artist --

you are judged on the “quality” of the final product and quality of the written communication (handed in).

For insights into how to manage all of this, check out the "Helpful Time and Project Mgmt docs" folder on the Drop Off drive.

The Teams

Masters 1

Servants 1

Bruce, Dustin A.

Puro, Andrea C.

Nosan, Aaron P.

Christensen, John A.

Dray, Matthew K.

Olmstead, Emily E.

Hohman, Laura L.

Somers, Samantha I

Keuseman, Benjamin J.

Rosenow, Adam S.

Khalafalla, Panagiotis A.

Truong, Kim P.

Loos, Danielle N.

Torrez, Thomas J.

Siemsen, Joseph T.

Tran, David X.

Mostoller, Robert E.

Sampson, Tyler B.

Eells, Kevin A.P.,, Jr.

Stebbing, Luke T.

Masters 2

Servants 2