Sign Age Tour

Square Peg Packaging tour

- Packaging starts from the inside out
- Clients are agencies, freelance, in-house
- Solve the design problem before you get on the computer so you can spend time making it pretty!
- What environment will pallet be displayed in? Think about shoppers
- Sloppy production costs delays of time
- Don't look at size of order, look at the customer
- G7 printing profiles
- Make it fun, keep it real, be passionate
- Put the project before the design 
- If you're great at what you do, the money and jobs will follow.

10/15 : Quinn Aquent & Vitamin T

-Aquent: 20+ years - big companies
    -Vitamin T - small to mid-size
What clients are looking for:
-Potential empoyers (clients)
-Temp, contract; "employee of aquent"
-Opportunity + Skill-matching!
-Understands what clients need

-Titles can vary from company to company
-Designers as problem solvers
   -Problem/Action/Result models in an interview (how will they solve my problems?)
      -Doesn't always have to be quantifiable
-VP levels want excitement

In a portfolio
- Love diversity, but be open with what your strengths are
- Tell a story with the portfolio - your 2 successes you're most proud of
   - Role, why are you proud of it?

*One-page resume*
   - Freelance - description / clients
- "I don't understand what the designer did on that project"
- Challenged & how you overcame them
   - Turn you challenges into an example of how we can count on you

- Banner ads, catalogs, brochures...

*Print production managers * - big in SD
* Email design and development*
*Lynda.com interactive/coding vids.*

- Mobile & UX designers
   - Don't have to be a web person to design moble
- Offices all over the U.S... if you're traveling let them know!
- Maternity leave calls!
- Placed for 90 days, then hired (hopefully)
- Design skills and languages
- Elligible for benefits!!
- It's ok to just show a few pieces
- PROBLEM/ACTION/RESULT - even for fictitious projects
- Might understand more abou the job in interview - highlight certain things
- Can usually get in contact with client, not just send it into "the abyss"