Damage Limitation

In October our group was tasked with organising a Halloween party for the college. Many aspects of the organisation process went off without a hitch, such as obtaining a venue, bouncers etc. but ultimately the party never came to fruition. There were a number of reasons as to why it failed the chief of which was that despite setting up a Facebook group in which everyone involved had a forum to speak out on what they felt was important, there was still little to no communication, particularly between the graphic design students and the illustration students.

The lack of communication caused a number of issues. Many people were getting on with their assigned jobs, unaware that the job was no longer needed or had been assigned to someone else, such is the case with Harry Garrens who was tasked with creating a logo/typeface for the event only to discover that the work he created was no longer needed as illustration students had created a typeface themselves and already applied it to the brand. As failure was imminent it became imperative to invoke a damage limitation exercise to make the failure as small, subtle and insignificant as possible.

With that in mind
 the next task became to protect the reputation of the group by downplaying the incident, removing all posters and references to the party around the CCAD and quietly announcing its cancellation and offering refunds to those who had already bought tickets.