A beautiful way to liven up Helvetica!
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Lately I have been obsessed with virals. Videos of cats, fat men dancing and dressed like women, people having luck with vending machines, viral songs, skittle adverts. As cray as they-are they are genius! They make you smile. I want to do something like this for my self promotion.
For my self promotion I want to write a song about my skills/cv/personality/USP to show industry that im creative and think out of the box.
I have a idea on how I will do this. I am going to try it tonight. I want to talk about my USP. What makes me special and what they could gain from me being in their office.
The QR code is very outdated and not many people use it. BUT if I sent it to a creative agency they would scan it IF I think of a creative way for them to want to scan it.
I have done a survey asking 10 design agencies if they would look at QR codes link and they all said yes.
I cant just sing a song about my USP and send it to industry. So, I was thinking of making it my CV. Having a printed side on one side(clean and professional) and a picture of my face on the other maybe(so when you scan it looks like im talking to you) I’ll have to have really good copyright but I feel if I get this done well it could pay off!
I bought Keith Lemons app yesterday and was inspired. Its brilliantly simple but really funny and it shows personality.
I want to do something similar for my self promotion. But I would want my mouth to move. I could do this by taking a picture of my face and then putting a QR-Code over a the lips of my mouth with a message “scan to bring me to life”. When they scan my lips would move. Simple but creative!
I could talk about my CV!
Hong Kong design student Jonathan Mak Long, who gained global recognition last year for a unique logo tribute to Steve Jobs, has seen his career begin to take off after the young designer landed an advert for Coca Cola following his Apple success. (via Hong Kong Student Behind Jobs Tribute Logo Lands Coke Ad)
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After weeks of brainstorming and stressing myself out I have finally come up with my final idea! I know its really late on but I don’t see the point on doing designs for a idea that im not proud of!
I have been doing ideas that dont really represent my personality. I love music, design and talking lol. So im going to do something along the lines of that.
I’ll have a few mock up designs up by monday. With the video up too!
*These designs are not finished*
*These are screenshots and just ideas*
After hours of drawing up editorial layouts I think I have finally found the right one.
I’m thinking of using a layout like this. This is just a text as I still have 14 days to get everything done and still am expecting content. This is just a selection of some beautiful designs that some students have done from all over the UK!
I still need to sort out page numbering, content page, and I need to sort the layout out too. But for my first initial idea on how the layout might go I think this is a pretty good start!
I have just accepted a Graphic Design internship from Creative Protege. Due to having other commitments such as my University work, placement and All Collective we came to a mutual agreement for me to do one brief with them every month.
The first brief is to rebrand their sister company Gloss Creative. I will be rebranding their website, logo, creating staff uniforms as well as creating virals for their recruitment agency.
Because of the amount of work I have taken on I asked if I could collaborate with other designers. So me and my friend David will be doing this brief together. Looking forward to starting this in the next week or so!
I have just accepted a internship at Suneshine Studios. They have over 4 studios with 2 opening up in China. I am so excited! I will be working as their in house designer for 3-5 months.
They wanted me to change the look of their studio without changing their logo too much. I have so many ideas on how to transform their studio into a visual masterpiece.
I will be designing everything from their website, to their leaflets to the interior and exterior of their studios. I also will be doing market research into their audience as well as managing a team of interns.
I CANT WAIT!!!!
I contacted Creative Review today and they agreed to have a look at the first issue of All Collective. They gave me some really good advice and I can’t thank them enough.
I am so happy that such a influential editorial has agreed to have a look and offer some advice on how to get All Collective started.
So far thats 13 agencies that have told me to contact them when the first issue is released!
WOW. Just wow.
Just seen this on a third years blog. I would LOVE to create something beautiful like this- this is giving me a idea for self promotion!
I was looking through my friends Arrans blog the other day. Hes a graphic designer working in Blackpool. He got his dream drop as a designer as soon as he graduated! I was looking for some insperation and asked him for some really good advice!
Thanks for the help Arran!
I went to the cinima last night to go see The Hunger Games. Wow and I mean wow. The story, plot and acting was really good. It was very similar to the chinese film Battle Royal but I have to say this film was really good.
The film is set in the future where young adults and children are forced to kill each other in a sick game. The victor will win “wealth” and become a celebrity. But I loved the idea of how maybe in the future with reality shows always pushing more and more out of people that this story just takes it to the extreme.
Some parts of the film was really moving but I have heard the book is better. So my task after I finish all these deadlines this week is to buy the boxset and spent my easter reading and reading until I cant read anymore!
My favourite part of the movie was the ending because It was left in a moment of “is that it”? I wasn’t really happy with it but that made me really want to read the books to see what happens in the second film.
I have recently opened up a new studio called All Collective. I thought i’d write a quick review on what its about.
All Collective is a new upcoming online publication, which is created for students to showcase their work to a wider audience in a professional format.
All Collective will be releasing an online Zine every month focusing on different themes and topics. What we want from you is content so we can show a mass audience/industry how you work to a brief.
I created this because I love design and zines. I didn’t want to just limit myself and other students just to print because I feel a strong motion piece can also impact you like print can.
I have big plans for this and I won’t stop until its something! :)
