We were able to get the opportunity to run an illustration shop in the Eldon Building Foyer. After the success of the last grad show shop the lecturers thought it'd be a good idea to run a shop at another point in the year and they ask me and Helena if we would want to have half of the table be for the Illustration Society as we had made so many zines and products (badges, stickers and bookmarks). And of course we said yes, so we spent a lot of our time preparing the stock for the shop. Deciding prices (getting a lot of help from tutors), making more things and counting everything up, as well as preparing our own individual stock for the other part of the shop. Which, would be for all of the students on the Illustration course. Adam and Phoebe were enlisted to help run the shop with us as they were equally as enthusiastic about it. And when it came to the day we seemed to be the dream team!
It was an amazing experience to basically run this shop all by ourselves. We had to set up and manage purchases and attract people to the stall (which Adam was AMAZING at btw). We were able to talk with all sorts of people coming in and out of the Eldon Building and altogether it was a great experience.
At the end we made £1000! Which is a new record for an Illustration shop ran in the Uni and absolutely SHOCKED everyone (but mostly Helena).
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