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- paraselene0
Serapion is super nice, thanks for the link. What are you using it for?
Mooski
(Jul 26 06, 09:16)mostly playground taunts.
- Dancer0
Mooski, congrats on landing the YCN job, looks like it's gonna be a nice one. I thought of sending my stuff in to apply but had no experience of book design at all ...
Give my regards to Nick (if he remembers me?)Sorry to Hijack Just thought I would drop that in...
as you were
Back to my italics...
- gramme0
What exactly are you doing to promote yourself? I developped a system that seemed to work pretty well for me, I got a lot of responses when I was looking this winter, not to mention seven interviews and three job offers...being an entrepreneur when it comes to self promotion can really make a huge difference.
- _salisae_0
no problem, dancer. discussing someone else getting a job in a thread titled unemployed is by all means respectable and encouraged.
:p
- vespa0
meow para! yes mostly. but i also used it to work with traditional northern indian pattern illustrations, for some reason it was perfect even tho serapion is meant to be a baroque font. rules rules, my point is that if it works visually then rules are silly.
- paraselene0
just playin', kitten!
;)
x
- vespa0
ps sorry kiko about the diversion. where's your cv anyway?
- MyNameIsPhil0
Have you check all your contact info? Maybe your email or phone number is wrong?
- MyNameIsPhil0
I have always wanted to just show up some where and start working. Just blend in... Talk to HR and be like I didn't get my check this week. You may want to try that!
- Dancer0
lol@salisae
I didn't mean to jest.
Kiko, refine your approach and come up with a neat little concept to hang your work on. People Always remember me like this, the name helps though...
Gd lk
I'm off before Vespa starts giving reasons for Comic Sans to exsist
- barbtastic0
MORE PAPYRUS, PLEASE
- _salisae_0
i agree on the url .. makes me think you're flitty and distracted easily
and the employer may think about sexual harrassment lawsuit potential
- Kiko0
_salisae_
thanx salisee.
Yeah Ill change the domain name.
I agree i need more coorporate looking work in there.
Thanx for all the help dudes!
And yes I tripple checked that my details were correct. That was one of my first thgouths.
I wish they were incorrect.
- Kiko0
Big thankyou to everyone who has responded in this threads with your coments. I found them all very reasuring. thankyou
- fusionpixel0
maybe dont ask for a senior level position right out of the back, just get in and then you show them what level you are in. again it all depends on how deserate you are of finding work.
- jstahl0
If you're looking at commercial agencies, none of this work is really commercial. I mean the advertisement for the perfume.. if it weren't written underneath I would have no idea it's even for perfume. A lot of your type is hard to read, on more than one occasion I had to look at the title of the project underneath just to understand what the the word in the picture said. Your websites you designed are nice, though.
On some things you say "branding" as the project type.. but if you just made the logo it's not branding, that's making an identity. By saying branding, you are suggesting that you did the logo and came up with and detailed how customers should feel about this product or service. You should make it clear exactly what you did for each project.
Do you have people skills? Being a talented designer is only part of the equation. You need people skills, technical skills, and you have to be business savvy if you're working in a commercial agency. They wouldn't want you talking to customers as a senior designer unless you can show you have people skills.
But those are just my thoughts, and as you know, it's just an opinion.
- F_180
i like your work, and i agree with some of the above comments about the type and such. but also, stylistically a lot of the projects here have the same look and feel. consider breaking out and coming up with some very different concepts to add some versatility. that being said, you have soild work and i dont really know why you are unemployed.
- machito0
it seems people think the wokr is good, so I am posing another thought... how is your behavior/appearance at these interviews?
- Llyod_Christmas0
you should have a job by now. maybe you smell?
