self promotion
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- mr_snuggles0
"for those in a hiring position, what was the coolest promotional piece that you have recieved? "
I've yet to recieve anything that impressed me. Most of the stuff we get/got were little booklets with weird folds and bad typography. But I blame television for this...
- jox0
the coolest promotional piece I've ever received was a videotape with a guy simply holding his stuff up, explaining its audience, the process and the outcome.
That gentleman is currently creative director.
- k0na_an0k0
thanks for the advice kona. I know i have to figure this one out on my own but i just wanted to see what other people have done to broaden my thinking a little bit. And that rock though the window was definately an original idea.
platinum
(oct 22 04, 12:39)==============
you really want to get an a. the morning that you have to turn in your project order a pizza and have it delivered to your professor. catch the delivery guy in the hallway and drop your resume and a note saying something about being available for an interview, or whatever self promotion thing you can think of, then have the delivery guy do his job.
a+. the teacher gets a hot pizza, he has your resume and name in hand, and whalla, nice self promotion.
done.
now with all this pizza talk i have to go eat my 337th chicken breast in 12 weeks. fuck me all to hell only 2 more to go THEN it's pizza time.
peace.
- gruntt0
the stone through the window thing.
i call bullshit.
- scarabin0
you on the fatkin's diet, or what?
- scarabin0
it doesn't really matter whether it's true or not.
it's the concept.
- save0
for those in a hiring position, what was the coolest promotional piece that you have recieved?
scarabin
(oct 22 04, 12:45)If I recieve another letter with with folded up briefs, I'm going shove a broken bottle up my arse. Its not original, its not zany, its crap. I want to see nice simple graphics. I don't want to read a four page CV reading about how great you are and how we wouldn't survive without you. We need to see your style of work and think how you would fit in, and a potential employer can't tell this with gouache paintings and pretend graphics for a made up band....
- mr_snuggles0
Exactly.
- save0
it doesn't really matter whether it's true or not.
it's the concept.
scarabin
(oct 22 04, 12:54)FUCK OFF!!!!!!
- save0
although, in our office were always in need of cups, there always fucking dirty and lying about the office. Apply some photos of your work to one and a url and your guaranteed someone will check it out.....
*gets his coat.....:(
- k0na_an0k0
you on the fatkin's diet, or what?
scarabin
(oct 22 04, 12:54)
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nah. i'm training for a bodybuilding show. 2 more weeks and it's all over.i figured it out not too long ago how much of things i'd eat over a 14 week diet. it's 360 chickens. 1008 egg whites... blah blah... i can't wait till its' over.
- ********0
have a blimp randomly drop your portfolio(s) downtown, with little parachutes pimping your logo
- scarabin0
that's a goddamn lotta chickens
- scarabin0
or penguins with rocket launchers
- k0na_an0k0
now penguins with rocket launchers would be cool!
make sure they're wearing helmets with your logo.
- t_rock0
you think the rock is bad? when i was working at Babbitt & Reiman in Atlanta (now closed), there was a kid who sent a box to the cretive director with text on it that said "Last night I dreamt I worked at B&R" Inside was a pair of Y-fronts that he had came into. He didn't get the job.
- scarabin0
that's gross
- t_rock0
he made an impression that's for sure. i think it stunned everyone that someone would do that.
- scarabin0
on top of being gross that's a biohazard.
- ********0
for real.... who does that?