self promotion

One of the most important parts of embracing the creative industry is promoting yourself, letting everyone know what you have to offer. This can be done countless ways in this digital age, through online portfolios Behance, Cargo Collective, Carbon Made, Blogging on Blogger, Tumblr; having business cards and or a creative CV to approach industries in person. For our final module and as part of venturing into the big wide world of design we were asked to prepare one of each; a business card, an online portfolio, and a CV- creative or just better than the existing one.
before i set about tackling this i took to the internet for some examples of self promotion. The most daunting prospect was coming up with a creative CV, shown below are a couple examples of graphic design CV's. Very clean and explanatory they display the person and all that they are good for.

 i loved the design of the one above, its very reminiscent of the old comic book or newspaper adverts, complete with tearaway enquiry form, the choice of paper stock and layout of fonts with appropriate graphics makes the whole package reflective of the designer and their own attributes. Its clean and consistent but doesn't look overly minimalist there is enough to engage the eye.

another graphic design Cv, the main reason for picking this one out of the stack was its legibility, and how fast the information can be taken in and considered. Everything a prospective employer needs to know is displayed clean and clear, the consistent diagrammatic illustrations make it all appear very clean and clinical in the best possible way. 

i think this last CV was created by an illustrator, this is probably more the route i would take if i were to design a fully creative CV, the mess and illustrations are reflective of someone who likes draw and paint with ink, and although not quite as clean as the graphic design ones above it does relay in the necessary information in a concise manner. 

 these business cards show the brilliance of design in such a small place, adding function (in the case of the above) or implying services (like the one below.) The sprouting business card instantly makes the strip of card something useful and desirable, if for nothing else the reward of sprouting your own alfalfa or cress.  

 rather than give you something physical this business card gives you a hint, the card is for a personal trainer the simple application of a perforated edge gives a whole new meaning to the card.