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- bumdrizzle0
i COMMUNICATE.
and enjoy slacks.
- sequoia0
"available upon request"
lol. you need to have it front and center on your home page. lets see it.
- pockets0
AdWheel Awards" held by The American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
Each year, APTA members submit their very best advertising, marketing, promotional, and communications materials in the media categories of print, electronic, campaigns and special events to the AdWheel Awards competition. The best of the best are selected by a panel of independent judges and winners this year were announced at APTA's Annual Meeting in Dallas in September.
- exador10
hey pockets...
back in the day when i first got out of school, i had an interview that was EXACTLY like the one you had...dude looked at my portfolio, made a few 'meh' comments, asked if I'd done anything 'real' (as in a real paid gig) then to make it even worse, he got up to take a phone call and didn't even say good bye or let me know the interview was over...i sat there like an idiot for 10 minutes before i got up and saw him chatting away on the phone at his desk...twat didn't even make eye contact with me...just gave me this brisk be-on-your-way' wave of the hand...
fucking idiot....
that shit sapped my confidence like crazy...i mean look, i was under no illusions..i knew i had a 'just out of school' folio etc...but i was eager, hard working, and thought i had as good a chance as anyone else (the ad said they were looking for a junior designer for chrissakes)the point is, although it sapped my confidence like a punch in the gut, i didn't let it knock me out....i thought about what the guy said, thought about how the first thing he mentioned was how my folio had the 'just out of school' look, thought about the assholish questions he asked me to see if he could fuck me up (how do you trap in illustrator, how do you deal with colors in quarkXpress (this interview i'll mention right now was back in 1994)
i took all of that in and thought 'i'm going to prove that fucker wrong if it kills me.....i spent the next 2 months working on my folio as much as possible...i ditched everything in it and started from scratch...100% from scratch....
i thought up projects for myself along the lines of 'what are these fuckers expecting?' what would I look for in a folio? i did a ton of fake mock ads, logos for companies that don't exist, all kinds of things...but the trick was i got them all professionally printed (which was a big deal back in the early 90s for some reason lol) that sealed the deal...a lot of the stuff, you couldn't be absolutely sure whether it was a mock ad or not....i made sure i took a lot of time on them and when i got asked about them, i just was blase about it 'well, it ran last year in Chatelaine magazine...don't recall which month....etc...just lied my ass off.....
all of that, plus redoubling my efforts on looking for work paid off.....
big time...but that jack-ass in that interview was what set it off....he made me so mad, i promised myself i wouldn't give up....
if you love the work, if you love design, advertising, graphics, whatever...if you really really love it...nothing and no one can stop you from making it your career...
- ETM0
Ignore 'brother'. He's one of the no-post trolls that like to pick fights and derail thread. As usual, has no link to any work. Ignore the bait.
- ITs ok, your work not much better.brother
- Cheers!!ETM
- have you considered that it's sometimes the people who DON'T link their work who actually have the best work?iCanHasQBN
- Nope.ETM
- At least you didnt rip a poorly design stuff. I hope.brother
- i'd rather protect my business and professional integrity, than get it mixed it up with QBN crap.iCanHasQBN
- That's the problem. If people had to account for themselves more, this would be a better forum.ETM
- Not saying that's anything directed at yourself. But a fair statement in general, I think.ETM
- i agree w/ that.iCanHasQBN
- pockets0
its people like "brother" that destroy places like this
- duckofrubber0
It stays!
- M_C_P0
back to the lecture at hand... pockets, you'll find that awards don't mean much in the grand scheme of things. the work always speaks for itself. unless your stefan sagminstrel, don't list that stuff unless you have the noteworthy ones.
- lol @ sagminstrelbigtrickagain
- was that sad minstrel?Amicus
- ETM0
Lol. brother... "shocked" that you're not actually from Berlin:
New York, United States (199.172.169.87)
- Sorry, now I am taking bait and derailing thread. D'oh.ETM
- Aren't you clever. How is that working out for you?brother
- The IP is labeled "Bloomberg Financial Market"
Hedge??ETM - how did you get his ip?bigtrickagain
- http://www.youtube.c…ETM
- hahabigtrickagain
- brother0
Actually no. I am just being honest.
You rip stuff (crappy stuff). You have a big ego based on nothing. Your work is poor. Yet you think you are on the top of the world.
- marychain0
This thread.....
GIANT eyeroll...
and an "OHH BROTHER....."
- sequoia0
we're still waiting for you to post your portfolio.....
- I think we have seen enough.brother
- what good is it for him/her to? i doubt pockets is holding an ace in the hole.M_C_P
- what do you mean go back to couple of pages.
hellojeehae
- powershot0
@exador1
i think that jack-ass in that interview is still right after 14 years...
look at yourself...
http://www.qbn.com/topics/550588…
http://www.bbblanc.com/web/guest…- very stupid comment.
especially from someone new around here. Play nice.identity - ? gtfo powershot.inteliboy
- Wow, MEGADICK alert.
If they meet the clients needs that's all the counts.orrinward - Clear cut comparison between confident professional - exador, and gunning wannabe - powershot.orrinward
- wow. then show us your work.hellojeehae
- and people call ME a twatmonospaced
- very stupid comment.
- 762mm0
Ahhhhh. The megalomaniacal, narcissistic and delusional. It's just a fucking job you twats. The world would keep spinning even if you weren't on it. Get over yourselves.
- hardly. just wanna break some truth to a dude since he's posting in here.M_C_P
- 762mm, to my knowledge, has never posted anything useful. he pours fuel on ashes.bigtrickagain
- you just breakin his ballswhatsup
- keep thinking that. No one outside of your profession gives a fuck about what you do.762mm
- Fact.762mm
- Can be said of people outside most other's professions. So is life.ETM
- monospaced0
A little context, please.
- Actually, if you've interviewed more than a dozen, that intro needs no explanation.luckyorphan