design practice and design practitioners

its better to live as your own man, than live as a fool in someone else's dream...

take the opportunity to ask yourself whether you are happy executing someone else's ideas, or whether you would rather be the sole author of your own ideas. Then ask yourself A) do you have any clients, as Ken Shuttlewoth, now of makeplaces fame, asked me when I told him during his leaving party that I wished to someday have my own practice, and B) do you know how to go about winning clients, and C) do you have any of your own money to live off and sustain your practice when things are slow?

Its easy to say this, yet it is extraordinarily difficult and financially risky to get involved on your own. The RIBA Bookstore publishes a booklet series as guides for the small practice - they will give you some idea of the quagmire sole practitioners can get themselves into...

As a new father I will happily remain in the employ of another, however it must be the right kind of practice with the right combination of elements.

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