Advertising - Me

GRD 4350

Here is the burning question... How do I advertise me?

First Step:
Identify your strengths and weaknesses
What programs do you feel more comfortable in?
Look at all your portfolio, is there a trend?
(i.e. colors, fonts, style...)


Step Two:
How do you keep reinventing yourself?
What makes you different?
What part of your history are you bringing to the table?

This specific Ad project is geared towards our previews internships.

Like I said in my previous post, I am now working for the Division of Student Affairs at Georgia State University, where I am a web specialist and a graphic designer.

Before this internship, I was an intern at Yola.com based in San Francisco. Thee I have a number of jobs (I was there every summer from 2009-2012): Product Designer Intern, Product Developer Intern and Product Management Intern.


For this project, I will be advertising my dosing skills and my graphics skills. Very vague I know, but It will come together nicely. I want my employers to know that I have experience and that I know what I am doing, Confidence!!! I have struggled with that before, but it is time I just go with my gut!

With this new found confidence, I have come up with my two posters 5 minutes into the lecture. Here are my sketches I did on my ipad in class...

For the first design (which will be for the Division of Student Affaris) I will be add a lot of color and make a 3D type of design flowing in from the top left ( i might even make it explode from the somewhere off center). Then inside the boxes I will place different skills and programs I like to use. The primary text on there will be something with imagination and inspiration being intertwined or on the boxes spelling it out. Either way, I want those words to be dominant in my ad.

For the second design, I want thins "in the computer" feel. But instead of straight forward, I will make it slanted and tilted a little for more of a dramatic dimensional feel. The wording will be, "I am the CSS to your HTML" ( just for chuckles) the I am still debating on the secondary text between "We can code the world" or "Lets design great things together".. but that sounds too corny and weird, considering my primary text.

Hopefully I can finish these soon! They are due Thursday!!!

Best,
Anri