It has a fantastic location in the centre of Leeds, it is a very short distance from the train station and also near the ring road so easily accessed from the motorways (M1, M62, M621) and it is on the direct bus line through the city centre. It is much cheaper than our original plan of basing our offices in London and it is at the heart of a creative city and ideally for looking for new and upcoming design tallent as there are 3 main universities in a 10 minute walking radius (Leeds Univeristy, Leeds College of Art, and Leeds Metropolitan).
By basing our offices up North in Leeds the rent is much lower than down south, we will be saving money in our start up costs. To begin with all our clients will be from our surrounding area, keeping our travel costs lower and in the future we hope to expand our client list to down south and around the London area.
By using these premises, our gas, electricity and telephone bills are included in the rental price.
We have chosen to rent a 4 person office space at £365 per month. There was the option of having a 5 person space at £500, we were tempted by this idea as we felt that the new designer that we will be employing per project will need a design space but we then thought that not all of us will be in the office every day of every week; I as the client liaison may be out a majority of the time having meetings with new clients and will not all be designing every day, in which case we can come in on alternate days.
The city of Leeds is bursting full of young and upcoming tallent and many creative opportunities; from the surrounding universities as well as many business opportunities. This will provide us with a constant influx of the best new upcoming talent from our surrounding areas, also giving the graduates a chance to have an experience in a the design industry and to meet potential companies they can one day work with.
The technology of lap tops and imacs allows us to be flexible in where we base ourselves, we will have imacs in our main offices and have our laptops for when we go to meet clients.
http://www.qu2leeds.co.uk/index.htm
This is a map of the Leeds Metropolitan university campus and you can see the location of our premises in releveance to the centre of town (the Light building)
No comments:
Post a Comment