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Professional Practices Handbook: Digital Sketches for Clients

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. Digital Sketches for Clients. Digital Sketches have become the best way to communicate with a client. Some tips for best communication:. 8226; include your branding. 8226; say it is a sketch so they do not get confused that it is a final. 8226; communicate what you will be changing (i.e. color, value, level of detail). For designers the sketch would be in the form of digital compositing. Download the PDF of. Digital Sketches Frutopia Drink Illustration for Alticor.

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Professional Practices Handbook: Writing a Cover Letter and a Resume

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. Writing a Cover Letter and a Resume. Intro to professional correspondences. 8226; Deliverables include:. 8226; Cover Letter and Resume PDF. 8226; Email the package to susan@visualpump.com. With an intro email as if she is the potential employer using a professional email. Supplementary Resources for Student Research:. Of Student Resumes and Cover Letters from this class. 8226; Graphic Artists Guild Handbook, Pricing and Ethical Guidelines. In the Collection of.

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Professional Practices Handbook: Estimates, Invoices and Contracts

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. Estimates, Invoices and Contracts. 8226; Create the estimate, it will be repurposed as an invoice. 8226; Choose a job from your business/career plan to estimate. Example Estimates and Invoices:. Student Estimate / Invoice. Graphic Artists Guild Handbook. On Reserve in the Library there are project contracts in the back. From the Graphic Artists Guild. Click to go to the Kendall Weblab. An on-line media laboratory designed by Kendall students. Resume and Cover Letter.

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Professional Practices Handbook: Pricing Advice

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. Things to consider when pricing:. 1 How big is your client? Large corporations will pay up to four times as much as a small company for the same thing. 2 Hourly rates mean nothing. A project has a "market value". That is simply the amount that, say a trade journal, will pay for a logo and a web site. Wired magazine, a different market, will pay a lot more than that. Look in the Graphic Artists guide to Pricing and Ethics. Created by Bill Fischer. Animation Students...

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Professional Practices Handbook: How to Pitch an Idea

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. How to Pitch an Idea. Has an excellent example of an animation pitch. Go to the the Wublog Show Bible. WANT TO PITCH YOUR IDEAS TO CARTOON NETWORK’S ADULT SWIM? SDCC PANEL TELLS YOU HOW! Ever had a great idea for an animated series, but never knew how to do it? 1 A really amazing show idea. 2 A show bible that includes:. A Show concept/ description. B Main character descriptions and designs. C Secondary characters and descriptions. What NOT to have:. If the answers...

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Professional Practices Handbook: Online Market Career Resources

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. Online Market Career Resources. The creative world at work- job postings. Careers in gaming at Doublefine. Labels: Online Market Resources. Click to go to the Kendall Weblab. An on-line media laboratory designed by Kendall students. Resume and Cover Letter. Estimates, Invoices and Contracts. How to market yourself. Animation- How to Pitch an Idea. How to make a Design or Mural Proposal. Kendall Career Services Employment Links. Digital Color Settings (blog).

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Professional Practices Handbook: Creative Smackdown

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. Creative students prepare for the Smackdown. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.– Creative Smackdown, a statewide advertising, web. Design, and graphic design competition for students, will be held on. October 29, 2009 at Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Pew Campus. The. Creative competition allows students the opportunity to network, win. Scholarships, and have their work critiqued by industry professionals. The top three winners will each receive a monetary prize as well as.

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Professional Practices Handbook: Career Plan Questionnaire

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. These are the necessary questions for artists and designers building a career. To make this Questionnaire into a Career Plan, copy and paste the questionnaire into your own document, answer the questions, then create paragraphs under each header as in the professional example. Tell us about you:. Your Name, Address, Phone, Email:. Your Blog address that you will create in this class:. What your career objective? What is your tagline? Who are your competitors? Descr...

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Professional Practices Handbook: How to Market yourself

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From Kendall College of Art and Design. How to Market yourself. Push your information - the customer may or may not be aware of your product so you will need to push your idea. It requires putting your brand identity on every piece of business collateral. It requires researching your target audience:. What are your Customer Demographics? Metric Research- Get the data. What are they looking for? Qualitative Research- what is the mood they must be in to make a purchase? Types of Push Marketing:. Digital Co...