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Pdf’s, jpg’s, website url’s, dropbox links, emails… all methods of getting your name out there in front of the CD or Studio Manager of the company you desperately want to intern with. But what if something landed on their desk which was so creative, so beautiful crafted and executed. A tactile experience that no digital version can offer. How can they resist opening it and exploring the contents? That is the aim of the ‘Resumé Experience – A cover letter/introduction, a resumé and a handful of  ‘teasers’ demonstrating your creative ability (not a portfolio though!). If done well, it can be an instant door opener. But if done badly – and this could be anything from bad construction, to a horrible choice of typeface, or any sort of grammatical mistake – it would sign your death warrant at that particular company.

Here are a majority of the resumé packages created this time around. Several still need working on for a variety of reasons (a spelling mistake or orphan here and there, or poor execution etc.) but for the most part – a nice selection.

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Always a fun way to /push’ creativity beyond the cliché answers and, at the same time, develop the level of pre-computer execution and rendering (you don’t always have a laptop at hand – just a sharpie and a napkin!).

Choose 12 short sharp design problems from 30 and in words and images – creatively solve 🙂

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The latest theatre production – The Mountaintop. As always, I tried to veer away from the obvious visuals (actually wanted to avoid images of MLK jnr. completely), but this would be a problem for those not familiar with the play/script. So here are a few of the transitions for the poster:

 

 

 

 

And the final version…

After class session #3 the students went off to do their own which included the changing of the guards, Westminster Abbey, and Harrods. I went off to Hampstead Heath to search ou a pub I was curious about.

The evening was centered around a class ‘team bonding’ session. I introduced my students to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street. A very cool old pub with small cosy rooms spouting off everywhere. Plus a home of Sam Smiths beer, maybe not the best beer, but definitely the cheapest in this neck of the woods.

Fun was had by all. Lets see if they all show up for 10:30am class tomorrow 🙂

Once again, the paper engineering brief rears its ugly head! A test of creative thinking beyond the two dimensional realms of editorial design, and a competition to see who can reach the deadline without needing to visit ER with a sliced finger from trying to construct the pages!

The subject for this coffee table style book this time was ‘The Circus’. The audience was adult (not kids), and content could be anything from facts, poems, quotes etc.

Here are just a few:

 

So already up to the final assignment for the Fall 2014 semester! Essentially a pre press guide in a format of choice. As with all the projects from the syllabus – the emphasis should be on clarity of information, however, it should be packaged in a unique, interesting but useable way.

First things first though. You can hardly talk about pre press and the printing process without some first hand knowledge from the experts. Time for a road trip to our friends at Wayne Printing in Kickapoo. Thank you Ken and Keith for your time giving us the  walk n talk.

 

Really fun Information Design brief.

Each student documented their social media usage over a period of several days. Qualitative and quantitative data was documented, including what time of day, duration, what activities they were doing while on social media etc. From this they were expected to visually and accurately present their information over a refined time frame (24 hours, two days etc.) in the form of a wallchart.

Here are the results

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Always love working on the Theatre Departments production pieces. This is the second in the 2014-15 season; PROOF.

As with ‘Spring Awakening’ another difficult play to interpret visually.

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