2014 NBA DUNK CONTEST
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- ********0
Are you Ken Ham?
- TheGreatGlorpo0
It's funny how such an accomplished design talent that has worked with such big name companies like Adidas, Nike, etc. doesn't have a LinkedIn page claiming to have worked with these companies. Or anything online in the way of a resume, work history. Maybe they don't do that sort of thing in the northwest.
- Linkedin still a thing? i don't have a linkedin page as well... i'm from the northwest. but to be fair, i've never worked with big name.pango
- meffid0
Is this still straight up 'fake it til you make it'?
Darmon Vs. Bart Bresh.
It's all in CAPS and I never know what the fuck I'm reading.
- ********0
- SEE THE CV: PDF********
- too bad some of those people have decided to never work with you ever againmonospaced
- SEE THE CV: PDF
- ********0
Linked in is for 40 year accountants... I get all my gigs through friends and creative recruiters - do you want me to email you on AOL and myspace their info?!?
- ********0
Here's my old "creative director at Nike"... He no longer works at Nike and he and I were not "close"...
- Take a look at his work, than take a look at my work... You will find several projects he "oversaw", *I guess... I did the work.********
- Me, me, me and me... :)********
- Take a look at his work, than take a look at my work... You will find several projects he "oversaw", *I guess... I did the work.
- ********0
I'll also tell you why I no longer work at Nike and why I have a huge chip on my shoulder... Nike retail was my dream job, I was "pardon my arrogance" and "french"... FUCKING GOOD at it... I loved that job, I loved working at Nike... That was my motherfucking dream and dream job... I moved to Portland to work at Nike and did it and worked my ass off. I was making between $60-90 per hour at Nike retail design. I was initially hired on for a two week gig to design the Niketown Las Vegas wall because I know basketball and I know Nike retail (I initially worked at Nemo design here in Portland redesigning all the Niketowns). It turned out perfect and people like Adrian N (see link above and Mark Parker, CEO loved it). It was my niche, I got really good at retail design because I worked my ass off. Long story short, two weeks turned into 7 months of continuous retail design freelance. Right before the holiday break of 2011, I was told I would no longer have a job after working between 55-80 hours a week and being told I "set the gold standard at Nike and was going to be hired on". I was making really good money working on really good projects - this announce crushed my soul. No joke. Shorlty after finding that out, Adrian quit Nike DTC, hired two of his friends instead of me and left me out on the pavement. I had one week of work and work on this:
http://www.chrisdarmon.com/NikeR…
Another long story short, I designed and worked my ass off again on this project (Nike DTC reclaimed signage) and was in charge of going to a metal shop to get these signs laserjet cut. While I was there, a retail design firm I won't name names, was there making some shitty ass promo item. They were brass knuckles with the words "love, hate, and fail"... I still have one to remind myself of this story. I asked if I could have a few to take back to my friends and designers on the team at Nike DTC. The owner of the metal shop said I could have some, I took them. No big deal, RIGHT!? Wrong, the next day I finish the project and my design director comes in and won't make eye contact with me. He lets finish the project at the metal shop and the next day I go into Nike I get a text from him saying where are you? I tell him I pulling up to the parking. I open the doors and the freelance manager in charge of freelancers like myself fires me.
- I meant "this announcement" crushed"... I'm tired. Laugh all you want at my story. This is life.********
- cool story bro! keep it up!pango
- I meant "this announcement" crushed"... I'm tired. Laugh all you want at my story. This is life.
- ********0
Come to find out, I pissed off the wrong person. I was accused of "stealing the brass knuckles" and the owner of the retail place that was making them, little to my knowledge is best friends with NIKE CEO Mark Parker. He told my design director and my creative director and some big wigs at Nike I had stolen his property. I didnt' even find this out til' a few weeks later. They told me I was let go due to "budget issues".
- why are you telling us this?cbass99
- Because 1.) people think I talk about Nike alot and apparently question if I worked there...********
- 2.) People have asked me why I no longer work there... This is a true story.********
- monospaced0
Nobody watches dunk contests.
- and please take your medsmonospaced
- You're fucking retarded. And your work sucks, there I said it.********
- I might be retarded, everyone here already knows that, but that doesn't change the fact that nobody watches themmonospaced
- They actually get great ratings just so you know.CygnusZero4
- You'll watch, you can't help but watch...********
- Thank you Cygnus.********
- ********0
Eventhough the metal shop owner told me I could have them (the brass knuckles)... And I offered to return them all. I pissed off one wrong person (the maker of the brass knuckles) and my entire life was shit on. All the hard work, all the late nights, all the dedication and false promises I put into that job. Companies like Nike and Adidas don't give a SHIT about the individual and especially freelancers. I was never allowed to tell my side of the story, nor was I given a single warning by people I knew, trusted and greatly respected. That was my dream, it was shattered over the stupidest goddamn miscommunication. I took a year off from design after that. Never in my life had I been so heart broken. And know you know my story... I was proud of that job, that work and that was my dream. Now I work for myself... Adidas is a completely different beast and I no longer respect them because of issues with money, contracts, and shoeboxes. Yep, my shoebox. ENJOY! LIVE AND LEARN.
- ********0
Bennie Wexlar or whatever the fuck your name is monospaced... Check out my new shoebox buddy!
http://www.chrisdarmon.com/Match…
Does that drive you nuts?!? Are you making wedding invites for your cousins?
- what is your problem?monospaced
- You're basing your assumptions of me based on work from 10 years ago.monospaced
- http://static.giantb…pango
- look mono! he's offering you to look at his balls! lolpango
- ballsmonospaced
- ********0
I work all day, all night and until they ban me from this site... I will post whatever the fuck I want on here... Got it buddy?!?
- ********0
Glitch art!!!! Bennie... Glitch art...
- good for you? I still don't know why you're so upset with me, I don't care what you post heremonospaced
- if you haven't noticed, there are two pages of people making fun of you, and it wasn't memonospaced
- lolpango
- TheGreatGlorpo0
Thanks for the resume link. It proves that you're old enough to know how being a self righteous twerp all the time makes you look like a total idiot for your age.
- sublocked0
Newsflash: Your spastic attitude, gratuitous oversharing, and general lack of anything resembling a filter is 100% what's preventing you from working in this "field you love".
Additionally, your design work is decent but nothing revolutionary. You need to tone it down 100%, take a step back, grab some humility and chill.
No diss intended here, but perhaps meds might help? Meditation? Yoga? Something.
- #Never********
- I work, I work in this field alot...********
- #Never
- mg330
Here's a headshot if you ever have a LinkedIn profile:
- ********0
VICTORY: Dunking for the Eastern Conference will be the team captain George of the Pacers, 2013 champion Terrence Ross of the Raptors and John Wall of the Wizards. The Western Conference dunkers will be Lillard, Harrison Barnes of the Warriors and Ben McLemore of the Sacramento Kings.
- ********0
GOAL: To be the first "designer" to design an official NBA slam dunk and put it in my portfolio!!! THE END. The slam dunk contest is BACK!!!!! George, Wall, Ross, and McLemore!!!