Fan of Chatroulette? Me neither but many excitable teenage boys enjoy nothing more than the thrill of searching through the hordes of other young men, to find an elusive pair of women’s breasts.
The viral campaign for “The Last Exorcism” takes advantage of these helpless souls. Enticing them in with the prospect of a young lady undressing and then scaring the living hell out of them, as she transforms into a demon possessed by the devil.
With already over 200,000 YouTube views, The Last Exorcism is receiving global recognition on a shoestring media budget.
Getting that first foot through the door into the design industry can be more hard work than getting through a 10000 word dissertation on brain surgery. Especially if you didn’t listen to your teacher back in science class!! As the most recent member of We Love I have learned a lot of tips, tricks and routines of industry life and I am continuing to learn! As I have recently finished my degree I know the struggle it is right now to get into the industry! Here is a few tips to help you not only get a foot through the door but to smash your whole body AND your portfolio through it!
Be prepared to work for free (for a while). Creative directors find it very reassuring to employ you if you have experience on your belt. Work where you can, When you can!
Get your CV to SCREAM praises for you! Imagine looking through 50 CV’s a day… Be creative!
Make your work easily available to employers and the public, so create a blog, website, digital portfolio, posters, business cards etc (you never know who that person sitting next to you on the bus is!).
Express your personality!! Remember the employer is hiring YOU. Not your final major project you done at university!
Be polite! Even if you get turned down by a company, send them a reply to let them know you appreciate the response and to look out for you in the future!
Be prepared to be turned down. But don’t panic, an opportunity will come!
Be passionate about your work, CV, and especially yourself. Confidence and Ambition is very important to have!
Have a LOVE for your chosen art! No love, No Job, find a different career!
Last but not least: DONT BE AN AVERAGE EGG! be golden, blue, pink or bright orange! Just not ur average cream!
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With the current “keep up or fall behind” state of digital design it is more important than ever to be seen as a leader in the industry.
There is so much amazing technology at our disposal that what seemed impossible 12 months ago is now totally achievable with a touch of creative thinking.
We have to strive to continue pushing the possibilities of what current technologies can achieve. It is about taking the standard information available to us and using it, or presenting it in a new manner.
While Facebook Open Graph Plugins are relatively new to the scene, there has already been some really top examples of putting them to use in a manner that benefits the user (as opposed to using them for the sake of using them).
Some of the team are flying the We Love Twitter flag. See what they have to say about the industry and nose into their personal thoughts about design, copy, dev and IA. Start following the We Love Team.
While you are there why not tweet us via our rather lovely and revamped Twitter page. Join the conversation.
During some downtime I came across some pretty impressive examples of pencil carvings. I heard of pencil art before…But this? One time you definitely wouldn’t want to be breaking the lead…Quick hide the pencil sharpners!
I love digital. Its what makes me tick. The ability to extend a brand online through interaction and engaging content. The ability to touch your audience in ways which were unthought of just 10 years ago.
And lets face it it is still the early years for digital. We are still stumbling around in the dark making sense of technology and behaviours that are entirely new to us complex and unique bipeds.
However, there is one thing that humans have being doing for a long long time… and that is story telling. We love a good yarn, be it to pass down life’s learnings to our offspring or to just entertain. So to celebrate here are some brands that ‘do story telling’ really very well.
Are you game? Are you ready to stop being a student? Do you want to kick start your career? If yes / yes / yes. Then you are ready for an internship here at We Love…
We are looking for people who are hungry for it. Who love the industry, who don’t want a bog standard 9 til 5, who have talent in buckets and want the opportunity to work with some proven gurus. To gain experience on real projects, work with real deadlines and budgets. To gain insight into this great industry of ours.
We are looking for 2 bright sparks. A designer and a developer, both must have a love of digital, a desire to learn and be brilliant. Internships will be a minimum of 3 months. You will work across a multitude of projects, taking ownership of some with guidance from others. There may even me a position offered at the end… who knows… it is your opportunity to shine!
Apply to James@welove72.com to join the We Love… Academy
With the increasing popularity and ease of use of smart phones and mobile devices like the iPhone/iPad and Android handsets, mobile data traffic is expected to rise 40-fold over the next five years at an estimated growth rate of 117% year on year – seeing data traffic figures rise from 8 petabytes/month to 327 petabytes/month in 2015. While admittedly a large proportion of this traffic will be video data, mobile web browsing will continue to soar in popularity, meaning demand for highly functional and content rich sites will rapidly increase too.
In the previous article, I highlighted communication and problem solving as some key attributes a designer should be constantly striving to improve. In this continuation I will continue to explore the often overlooked skills which form the foundations for a solid and successful designer.
Understand what is, and what isn’t, possible
Developing a close working relationship with a developer (yes, I know how hard that can be!) is one of the most beneficial strengths a designer can have. I disagree with the statement that all web designers should be able to code, but I do agree with the sentiment behind it. It is not necessarily the code we have to understand; it is the capabilities and limitations of code that we must be aware of.
Not everyone needs to know how to code, but it is important to understand how code works and understand if what you are asking the developer to achieve is actually possible. Asking a developer to do a fully animated website in HTML and CSSis comparable to a client asking you to design and build their website using only paper and crayons.
It is important for anybody designing for the web, to read and learn as much as possible about the restrictions that are in place. It is imperative to bear this in mind right from the outset of a design. Yes, you might have seen examples of this JQuery technique and that JQuery technique, but you need to understand why applying 87 JQuery animations on one page is not a good idea.
If you don’t have a developer who you can bug with your questions, search the web, join discussion forums and read tutorials to discover what is possible. Then it is up to you to take that technique and make it work in the best manner to solve your problem.
