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How to Get Your Dream Job as A Graphic Designer?

What should your art portfolio contain:

The best samples of your graphic design artwork & Fresh Ideas!

1. Ignore the jerks. You love your artwork persuade potential bosses and co-workers by impressing them with killer shit.

2. Your work doesn't speak for itself. I've been humbled by this reality many times. Always be cognizant of the the fact that you need to articulate how your contributions/work can make money for "the company"  

3. How the hell do you Network: There are tons of books on this networking conundrum.... You actually have to "figure it out " for yourself. Who do you know that can/will hire you? Probably no one. Join some groups/clubs: First you'll say, I don't have time for that. Make time - you're an artist, a creative person, apply that right-brain to your hiring dilemma!

4. A college education is the minimum level of education hiring persons expect of job candidates. This is true and this is bullshit. Set aside patronage, cronyism, & nepotism: You've walked into a businesses lobby and come face-to-face with people who work there.... many of them aren't qualified. 

When you look at a job posting

know

everything listed there, is what the company would love in a candidate, not what they're willing to pay for/settle for. In their wildest dreams they'd get all that in an applicant. They will settle for far less because

"Hiring is always a last result."

5. There are gaps in my resume: Maybe, but you've likely been making new works, learning new software programs, watching and creating tutorials that enhance your knowledge and experience, and you've certainly been checking out your contemporaries work online!

Hiring managers know damn well people have gaps in their resumes.

You can bullshit them or think about and be able to explain what productive things you were "doing" since you weren't working.

I'm a Graphic Designer:

It took time for me to learn how to make art.

I'm a Graphic Designer:

I work alone.

I work collaboratively.

My work is never finished, but I meet all my deadlines. 

I'm a Graphic Designer:

My dream job is to get paid to design!

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Chicago: River North Art Exhibition

If only...

Here are the ten digital prints

I would like to sell, if my artwork was being sold at a

River North Art Gallery!

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You must visit Denver, Colorado: Take the Amtrak train!

Riding the Metra train to

Chicago's Union Station so that I can

catch the California Zephyr...

Relaxed

Heading to Denver, Colorado from Chicago, Illinois for

three weeks of vacation:

hot totties, skiing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and enjoying nature. I've taken tons of

selfies - more artwork to come!

 

 

 

Chicago Selfie visiting Denver



Pay Attention to me.

Beautiful packaging is boring. I would rather see more of the extremes in self-portraiture.

Originality is everything.

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Graphic Design and Pop Culture (Jimmy Kimmel & Rob Ford)

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by 

Samantha Canada

"Everyone's favorite crack-smoking mayor,

Rob Ford,

probably thought late-night American television was

going to be a bunch of chuckles—until the host suggested he enter a rehab program. On Jimmy Kimmel Live,

Ford appeared uncomfortable but laughed through most of the ribbing, which included videos

of his most embarrassing moments. At one point, though,

Kimmel

went serious and said that if he's an alcoholic, and drinking enough that he would try crack cocaine

in his forties, "and you don't remember it, maybe that's something that you might want to think about, like

talking to somebody." Ford's response:

I “wasn't

elected to be perfect.”

"Understatement of the year."

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/03/04/rob-ford-laughs-off-idea-of-rehab.html

Selfie Nation!

Selfie

"Snap!

Afterwards, a flattering filter is applied. Outlines are blurred, colors are softened, ..... 

All of this is the work of an instant. Then, with a single tap, you are ready to upload: to" Google plus, "Twitter, to Facebook, to Instagram, each likeness accompanied by a self-referential hashtag. Your image is retweeted and tagged and shared. Your screen fills with thumbs-up signs and heart-shaped emoticons. You are "liked" several times over. You feel a shiver of – what, exactly? Approbation? Reassurance? Existential calm? Whatever it is, it's addictive. Soon, you repeat the whole process, trying out a different pose. Again and again, you offer yourself up for public consumption."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/14/how-selfies-became-a-global-phenomenon

Say what...Kim Kardashian!

 "Our ____________ sells out all the time," Kardashian says. People collect them because each store has a different __ on the bottle.

That's amazing."

"It's _______ crazy, she says. "I mean, a _______ ___? It's crazy."

Despite all the phoniness, rehearsed ________

and fake scenarios, there is some grain of ______ to the Kardashians to which fans 

_________________..."

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/sep/07/kim-kardashian-life-as-brand 

( All Portraits created by Samantha Canada )

Advice: Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook 2014

"Growing up on a _______, with six brothers and sisters, it was drummed into me from an _____ ___ that humility is a ________, and bragging, well… not so much. My parents, both ________ to the core, told us that if we worked hard, and did a good job (at school, in athletics, or elsewhere) we’d be ____________ for our ______ and rewarded accordingly.

For the most part, it was _________ advice. ____, in today’s competitive ____, if your plan to get ahead is based on the assumption that hard work alone will _________, you may find yourself being left behind as the ______  __________ around you land the opportunities you _____ were yours... 

That’s not to say that humility is no longer a virtue. But ____  _______ can leave you languishing. Indeed, there’s a distinct difference between tooting one’s horn to stroke a ____ or insecure ego (which is, after all, why _______ brag) and sharing information that ___________ relevant people about who you are, the ___ you have to offer, and how you’d like to ________  ___ of it."

Quote by:  Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

http://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2013/04/29/self-promotion-is-not-crucial-unless-you-want-to-get-ahead/