Editorial Illustration
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- kodap0
It's very good to see people willing to try illustration seriously and professionally.
You can email anyone you want, write a letter too. It makes your job more serious. But emailing, depends on the speech. Look at it as if you were the client:- How would you like to receive an email from someone applying or offering a service, a partnership?
- Would the client like that you make an approach more personally / specifically directed to what matters?
- Or as some standard email sent to 500 contacts at the same time?
- Would the client also like have a "goodie" that 'blinks' his attention by the aesthetic aspect of the letter/email or some extra contents in the leter/email?
- Would it be useful to receive a *.vcf contact card? (if you explain THAT'S the file that will connect you if both when needed)- remember, you don't have to impress clients, you have to make them know you can work on something useful, effective that serves their ambition, with your personal aesthetic / visual language. the more concise and straight to the point, the winner he his.
Letters are also welcomed. value the "courier mail" - it will end up to be very useful in may cases. in that case, your imagination is your limit to reach or get in touch.
Just by sending a batch of postcards, creative paper things like stickers or badges... xmas cards... whatever- for possible clients, the least you can get is to receive back a reply thanking for your gift, maybe that's not much, but it's always rewarding.
uhm.. I'm at the same time taking notes, so I might continue in this thread with more related things that pop to my mind now...