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- Sharif0
I would honestly contact american agencies and ask for freelance work, theres a lot of work like that here, hit me up with an email, ill throw you some contacts
- digilee0
you got mail.
- rtl30
f-that! I'm starting a company today and hiring your ass pronto. get on a plane and call me when you touch NYC.
like your stuff. good luck
- Mooski0
I have to say it but I, personally, don't like your work. I don't mean to be discouraging but I find it a bit brash and un-considered. I mean, I've seen a lot worse and your use of technique is very accompished but it seems to lack substance. Sorry, man. I had to say it. (Almost) everyone has been saying 'no, no, it's really good, man' but if I'm thinking what I just said, maybe some of your potential employers are thinking similar things... I dunno.
I've revisited my portfolio so many times now and it's still not right, but the more I've picked it apart the more interest (touch wood) it's recieved. I think it's worth comparing what you're doing with other more accompished designers around town and trying to learn more about your own work...
Is that a help? I dunno.
- mowax0
theseday, they're looking for a superstar...best of the best. goodluck mate.
- Mouzer0
Here is my advice, although your portfolio is very nice it is also very stylised and only shows this one aspect of your work. I suggest you reconsider using some of your work you have done as an “inhouse” designer at the mobile phone company you have been working for. When you are applying for a job the people who are looking at your work aren’t necessarily looking for the same things you see in your work (especially at the level you are applying for), they want to know what you can do. So you need to show them every aspect of your design capabilities even if you think it is terrible work and a bad subject. If there is one element in that piece of work that you can say is good it will show them what you are capable of doing and also shows a good attitude of seeing positives in poor work.
- agentfour0
I think you're work is nice, but a lot of these responses are on point. The thing which could be a problem is the first job that appears in your folio, that chiiky logo. Its nice and all but it is the very first thing people see, and when i closed the window thats all i could really remember. It puts you in the niche market and out of the corporate. Try changing the order of things, put a corporate logo first or something. Also i've found that London agencies and companies place more importance on CV's than ive ever seen before. You need a nice looking CV with a few of your strongest work samples. I made about 5-7 different cv's as some places require 2 work samples, some 5, some none. Also cover letters are important. Back in Aus places never even cared about cv's and they only wanted to see portfolio. London is much different.....i also found that barely any places i sent my cv to even clicked the link to my website to see the rest of my work. That's why a good CV is so important. in order of priority to getting a job in london:
1. Nice professional CV
2. Nice Printed portfolio
3. Website.Thats in my experience anyways.
- ********0
All this talk about work and folios has given me a heebee geebees.
- agentfour0
u guys moved offices bottlerocket?
- jarno0
i get that we're discussing the portfolio here, but things beside the portfolio actually also still matter in the employment process, even on creative fields. you may (or may not) look for the "too good" top jobs only (only a very very few people actually start from the top), or you may (or may not) not bring up enough some of the important characteristics in your apps, such as enthusiasm (passion), self-confidence, etcetra. who knows.
- ********0
No, same place as when you came in.
- agentfour0
vice mag UK need an intern.
- agentfour0
ah ok. i walked past the entrance last night and couldnt see the logo.
All going well there?
- ********0
yeah, things are bumbling along in mango's inimitable way. We're about to take on a junior in the digital side of things, which should free up some time to some more new biz and of course, our new site.
- agentfour0
sounds like its all goin well! nice.
- ********0
It's always a 'tie it up with wire' kind of John Williams thing..... (blatent oz reference there)
- ********0
And I meant, John WilliamSON..not John Williams, the great hollywood score artist.
- agentfour0
better than Gaffa tape!
- ********0
true, but I would rather live in a house than a tent.
- fargo0
Since I left college way back when I designed flyers, posters, record sleeves, did work for some 'cool' clients, shit loads of logos, gained extensive knowledge about pricing jobs, handling clients and the print process. Then I decided to gt a 'proper' job in an agency so I coud actually earn some money but unfortunately because my folio was chock full of all the above (nice work as well even though I say so myself) they wouldn't look at me which I thought was discriminant! A lot of it was and fortunately I got a break with a good company and have learned even more than I had before and to be honest I can see why, looking from the inside why it's so hard to get a job with a folio like that. All I can say is stick at it and try to get freelance work on the bread and butter jobs at the same time (annual reports and the like.) It will help immensely if you can 'prove' you can do the jobs they are specifically looking to see if you can do. On that note, learning to do those jobs nicely and creatively is, to be honest, a different discipline and does need to be shown in your folio if you can.