Facebook profile branding from Rhett and Link

Rhett and Link are viral specialists and I found this video on branding a facebook profile picture so the person looks dateable, I think I can learn something from this and apply it to my own project.

The idea

This piece of inspiration has influenced me to think about how I could bring an animation to life. As I am story boarding different ideas I am going to incorporate different design techniques to help reach the next stage.

Influencers

This is a documentary film about finding creativity, while it is helping to find some motivation in my EMP I particularly take interest in how it is filmed, as a possible direction to take on how to show the building of persona/brand identity.

D and AD hand in

These are my final pieces for show at D and AD. The brief was to Re-design the Taschen magazine for the new breed of multimedia tablet devices. For the show I had to produce at most 4 show boards to explain my idea and an animation which shows how the application would work on a tablet device such as an Ipad.

TLK 3 - Freelancing

The third TLK lecture invited two freelance designers: Joel Lardner (an illustrator) and Chris Wharton (a web designer). Jane Richardson who is a senior member of recruitment agency Aquent was also there.

The main subject of the talk was looking at how students were to get a foot in the door with companies, how to approach them and employability. As a freelancer the most important thing is to create the best professional profile you can. Whatever research you can do into a company they can do into the employee too. There were some helpful suggestions of links to look at such as behance and sortfolio two types of online portfolio. When looking for jobs twitters tweet deck could be a useful resource.

It has influenced me in my extended major project, because it has made me think about how graduates look to the employer. There are plenty of social networking sites to build profiles and brands, including Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. When a prospected employer can type a candidates name into google, the first thing that comes up will be these social networking sites... so it is important to keep professional and personal profiles separate.

The Other Guys credits

This is another great example of well done infographics. I am still really interested in this area in visual communication and see it as one of my paths after I finish uni!

Keaton Henson narritave film

I found this video as part of the research for my EMP. Keaton Henson creates a narrative piece for the packaging of an album. I think the visuals are strong and the narritave process relates to part of my EMP creation. I would like to find more videos like this which could influence my final piece.