Self-Promotion Piece

As a graphic designer, I have to be able to leave something behind or send something to somebody who I'm interviewing with that will catch their eye and remember me. Sometimes, if you can't get an interview, you want to send something just to remind them that you're available. It should include some of your work so they can look at it and know what you're capable of. Another way of using your self-promotional piece, like I mentioned before, is to leave it with the person who just interviewed you. If they interviewed a bunch of people, they will remember you by your piece of work that you left behind. Now, some of you may be confused by this because some people think a self-promotional piece is just a piece of their work that they designed. It CAN be this, but its better to be a little bit more creative so people are more likely to remember you.

Here are some examples.

Now you have to be careful with what you leave behind because it needs to connect to you or the business you're applying to somehow. For example, the first one may have been a designer applying to work for a health company or something along those lines. It needs to click with the person accepting the self-promotional piece. We'll see where I end up with this...

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Bourbon Street

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been working on my own font based off of neon bar signs. Well the whole font is completed and now we have ANOTHER assignment even though this project has already taken over 3/4 of the semester... The next part of the assignment is to design a poster with our font. One side has to explain our font: why we chose it, our thought process, the different measurements we used, and so on. We have to explain our thought process in about 200 words (haven't written more than a few sentences since I became a graphic design major so this should be interesting). The other side of the poster has to show our font being used. So, my idea was to draw out kind of a replica of Bourbon Street in New Orleans and have all the bar signs be illuminated with neon and in my font. This is a lot easier said than done obviously but I'm going to give it a try. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!