Another designote.
There is art for art, where it doesn’t matter who did what and how in the process, only the result matters, and there’s art as a profession, where the most important part of the process is who came up with an idea, who led the process, who executed the final piece etc. With this post I would like to push everyone to stand up for your art and protect what’s yours, because when it’s business it’s a war, wheather you realize it or not. There is competition in every team, even the friendliest team, somewhere on the background there’s people’s thurst for public acknowledgement and you have to keep that in mind.
Work in a team is usually more productive and stronger than work done by one person, but at the same time, it can turn into a disaster if your team contains of leaders only. If all team members are professionals, you won’t fight, you’ll split the project in parts, you will finish the project, you will deliver great work…while fighting quietly for actual leadership and recognition. And sometimes it happens in teams that people start taking credit for work which was initially not theirs. You can simply get caughed up in the process and forget who did what and start thinking that it was all yours (because let’s face it all people are sellf centered more or less), but what I want to underline here is that when you see that people take credit for your work, that’s the perfect time to point out that it was yours. You don’t have to scream about it, you can simply make a comment which will set in context that that part of work was yours. Otherwise, you can end up being concidered just a tool to execute other people’s ideas, because you’ve been always quiet and never pointed out that you actually did something for the project youself. Being quiet in this case won’t get you anywhere. Please, artists, stand up for your art and don’t let more pushy people trap you and make an unrecognisable tool out of you. It’s very important.
Now i’m out :)
Your Anna Sun
