The brief for this project was to create a piece of personal promotion, or rather a creative way to showcase our CV's. When researching I came across a group of young designers that held a companies web space to ransom until they were offered an interview, this idea really inspired me to come up with a personal way of delivering my cv to a company.
Research
One idea I came across that looked professional was a 'take away' design that included a burger
disc with a visual cv. This idea was well executed visually interesting and capturing to look at.
coca cola did a campaign for a Christmas promotion, this included a gingerbread coke bottle.
One idea that I came across quite often was the 'fortune cookie'. Where you break into the cookie and the designers details are on the slip. This is a clever idea and edible! But not very original.
One idea that I came across quite often was the 'fortune cookie'. Where you break into the cookie and the designers details are on the slip. This is a clever idea and edible!
But not very original.
This idea included a match stick like packet with little card pockets containing flower seeds.
A nice idea for a florist, I liked this idea because of its clean visual appearance and design, but more importantly because it leaves an impression on the client.
I was also told about graphic designers that had personally delivered cv's, for example, one designer wrapped his cv around a brick and through it into the company building. I loved the idea of invading the company with your cv, but in a less violent way than a brick.
I started to think, how you could get a company to read your cv without having a say in the matter, like the designers than held the web space ransom. so I thought where would the designers go that they have to view the cv. I concluded with the toilet. We all go, so why not get a way of putting my cv into the toilets of a company. I initially had an idea to cover the back of cubicle doors with a typographic cv design. But I took the idea even further and settled on a
'toilet roll cv'.
The design process
Final design
An idea of what it will look like printed onto a roll (this being a paper version)
The final design Is printed onto standard 10x10cm toilet tissue in all black ink.
The final design is yet to be printed
Business cards
We were also asked to design a personal promotion item that we could give to companies/other designers, essentially a business card. I had the idea to create a 3d card that could showcase maybe work and my logo with all my contact details on.
The un-corrugated version of the design, also shows the designs process and how I was able to achieve the two images. The idea is to hand these out instead of a business card.
Keeping my logo on one side and an example of my work on the other, along with my contact details and full name.
A video of my business card