self promotional ideas
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- meffid0
It was floating around some guy projected his CV on the building of the place he wanted to work, an agency. Called every day and wouldn't stop until he got an interview.
Stuff like this is a fine line between desperation / ideal work place.
From personal experience I've done the following:
Been fired and said I would finish a contract out to the best of my ability - finished it, and was hired.
Have had a week contract, liked it, just kept turning up - got extended.
A gimmick will be laughed at, or kept and talked about. You don't want to be laughed at. You want to be taken pretty seriously as a senior. Or if you're going for junior or intern. Anything goes.
- animatedgif0
^ This is the usual advice you get from very successful people who had some lucky breaks. It's not really true.
Just making amazing work doesn't always mean you'll be discovered or talked about.
- Not saying I make amazing work, just saying promotion in the right way is worth doing.animatedgif
- BaskerviIle0
Just be good at design, do amazing work. That's the best way to get their attention.
If you do something crazy but haven't got the work to back it up, it's a bit pointless, no?
- utopian0
Does anyone have any good online resources and or inspiration for self-promo ideas?
- Scotch_Roman0
I did one several years ago. Got a great response. Been linked here before.
- nicole_marie0
just get the agencies mailers that you want to apply to then silkscreen your information over them.... done. hired.
- akrokdesign0
you could write on your self, like sagmeister. even do that was a aiga poster. :-)
- Rand0
spike water supply with acid, take over television network, broadcast to nation
- pango0
haha funny ideas you guys have..... might go with the porn. i mean who doesn't like porn! right?
so.. have any of you CDs received interesting self promotional piece?
- shitehawke0
How about kidnapping the CD, then force the MD to solve a series of puzzles, each more fiendish than the last.
- BuddhaHat0
Make satirical milk cartons with the 'lost person' image on the back. 'HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DESIGNER? HE'S REALLY F*CKING GOOD'
If you see him, please direct him to your HR Manager, or give him a job. You won't regret it.PS. I'm unemployed so I had to use free out-of-date milk from my local supermarket. Please don't drink it.
- shitehawke0
There was a bloke who sent an email to an agency (could have been Weiden + Kennedy, not too sure) saying that he really liked their work and would love to work for them and to that end would be sitting across the road from their offices the next day.
So next day he showed up with a chair and sat across the road from the office with a brolly and his portfolio to get an interview. From what I remember he got a job with them.
- airey0
kill someone and write you business name or email in 6 foot letter with the victim's blood. if you do the email, make the '@' symbol with the victim's intestine. it's the details that'll get you there tiger.
- marky_brown0
Find out what pizza they like, get the best one you can find and put it in a box with your CV printed on it.
- I think that only works if you want to become a ninja turtle?! :Duncle_helv
- well, don't forget to laminate your cvhonest
- Pupsipu0
i've seen someone send a really gigantic business card. It was like 6ft long. Someone thought it was SO clever, even though it's just artsy fartsy.
It's either that or a giant pack of toilet paper with a tiny business card attached.
Pick one, and stop trying to find inspiration on that bullshit. We got the internets these days.