business cards
It's that time of year again for the budding graphic design student; conference time. Time for wearing ties and blazers and toting your oversized portfolio everywhere you go (you know the kind. large enough to function as the sail on a boat, the kind that just screams "student?"), looking around wide-eyed at job fairs where fiercely business-like men glare at your work like its making them physically ill. I generally try to avoid these functions at all cost (the job fairs, not the conferences) as they seem entirely unnatural and uncomfortable, but I suppose that since I am graduating in May I should perhaps make a bit of a foray into these strange events and test out the tepid waters of "career employment." Though I still doubt that I will wear a tie.As preparation for these upcoming events I am currently trying to fix upon a leave-behind of some sort, probably a business card or small book or something. Or maybe both. Right now my plan is to create business cards out of this small stack of old library card catalog entries, which would be cool since every card is completely unique. I think that I'll probably design a rubber stamp with my name and website and such and then stamp the cards with the info. I'll also cut them down to a more natural business card size for easy storage. I'll also probably put together a small leave-behind book that I can easily reproduce and deposit at each table so that my smiling face will be more easily remembered. I'm not really looking to get a job directly from these ventures (it's really more of a networking exercise for me, I suppose) but who knows?
What do you think?
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7:57 PMi like it. good lucks.
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