New colour PDF

A lot of my work is monotone colours, I don't want creative directors to think my work is boring and that I have no personality in my work, I've always liked this green and since its just a email pdf for screen I can use this kind of colour. 

I'm not sure if it totally contrasts with the work but we'll see.

Getting in touch with Founded

I've contacted Anthony again, now that I'm heading home soon, as he suggested to contact him when i'm in the region again. I've re-worked my PDF too so hopefully it's an improvement on the last with some new work.

I hope he replies positively it's pretty scary putting yourself out there. I need to contact some more studios also but I haven't got many replies so far.

Re-doing my PDF

I think that I should take one of the H's out of shh since it's not even my initials I just added an extra to emphasise the shh but if were to explain it to anyone it doesn't make any sense. So I'm leaving it as sh.. and I think it makes more sense and still reads sh...

I'm considering making the sh.. 500pt as when it's small it doesn't make much impact and for a front page being sent to a company it needs impact, although the small 100pt one has the personality of the word sh.. I think the large one works against this though, I think I prefer the larger one now I've done it. I might play around with it and see what works

B&W

I've recently become aware that I want to start looking at and working with branding more. It's something I have never really focused on and haven't really thought about.

 B&W is one of the studios I am contacting and I really like that they have a mix of disciplines that I'm interested in.

They have some really strong clever but simple concepts, I love the print techniques like embossing they've used.

Founded

I was getting a bit dissapointed because I hadn't heard anything from Founded and it's probably one of my favourites but thankfully on friday night I got a reply from the Creative Director himself asking how he could help, which was great.

So I eventually built up the courage to reply to him wih my PDF asking for some feedback and a look round maybe, will have to see what he says.

 

I got this reply the next day

I am a bit concerned that he said this because he just thinks my work is really bad, he was helpfulthough and willing, unfortuantely I'm not at home though but let him knew that I would get in touch. So hopefully when I'm next back he'll be able to meet and hopefully I'll have more work to show by then. I think it's important that I keep a connection with them and keep in contact now and again so that it isn't forgotten about. 

PDF

I keep changing my PDF, after my talk with John he liked my initials and my surname, he thought I had a good visual to work with, with Herring.

I started to think I'd like to brand myself more, make it more unique so I've started to play with the initials, SH. Looking at shhhh as in whisper or be quiet, I don't want this to have negative connotations however.

I keep changing the layout and the colours though, I just want to include one colour as John suggested I used some as with black and white I don't want it to represent me as so serious and corporate. I've used this minty green so it looks quite fresh hopefully. 

I think I want to change the bit about me as well, I don't want to bore anyone and would rather just get to the point but put some personality into it.

Changed it again...

AAAAND AGAIN

InDesign won't let me export right now so I can't put my PDF up yet 

Reply!

Got a reply from Effektive!
I emailed asking for contact details of the Creative Director and he himself has replied asking how he can help, which is very nice of him if not a little scary. I need to finalise my PDF and sent it to him asap!

Just got a reply from Analogue too!  Seems like these addresses are going directly to the Creative Director, at least now I can be reassured that I am talking to them. 

First emails

I've sent out emails today enquiring about the Creative Director's contact details, I kept it pretty basic and didn't go on too much about why or anything, hopefully they'll be co-operative and get back to me. I contacted:
Founded
Analogue
Effektive

EmailS

Mock email for enquiring about the Creative Director

I've done it on hotmail but I'm going to use the college email as I'm aware that a lot of hotmail emails go straight to junk and so probably won't even get read.

I think it'll be best to send individual emails to each company so it's more personal about their company and I can possibly comment on their work or website or something.

PDF to send

name, branding, quick design

I want to come up with some visual, everyone seems to like my surname, I hate it and don't really want the associations of visual of a fish, I'm thinking I could try and make it stylish like something to do with a fish, an eye or texture?

Initial PDF idea, I haven't much work I want to send out as I feel like I've just started to produce work that I want to produce and know the kind of things I want to work towards, print, type and layout. I've tried to focus on this in the PDF to try and get this across, I don't want it to look corporate but more  quality and professional rather than student like.

CONTACTS

This is my list of studios I want to contact, a lot of them produce the kind of work that really interests me and excites me and I'd love to go and see how they operate it's just scary.


Founded: hello@wearefounded.com


Reluctant Hero: peter@reluctanthero.co.uk


Teacake: rob@teacakedesign.com
               graham@teacakedesign.com


Public UK: gabby@publikuk.com


muro buro: hello@muro-buro.com


B&W: lee@bandwstudio.co.uk
            steve@bandwstudio.co.uk


Analogue: studio@madebyanalogue.co.uk


Effektive studio: studio@effektivedesign.co.uk

Quite a lot are indirect email addresses so I need to mock up an email to ask for the details of the creative director.

MURO BURO

GRAPHIC DESIGN, ILLUSTRATION, TYPOGRAPHY

FOUNDED

Happy because I had found some really nice work by a company called Blue River but their website was under construction so couldn't really find out anything, fortunately I found yesterday that they must have changed names or something but they have a new website under the name, Founded. They have some really nice print and type work that they've done for the Baltic oh yeah and they are in Newcastle which I have been looking more at.

They give an email address which is just hello@ so I'm assuming this is just an info@ kind of address so will probably have to ask about the creative director on this. But I know exactly where about it is and the work that they have done for the Baltic is something I always keep my eye on. Definitely want to get in contact with these.