Friday, 3 July 2009

D&AD New Blood...




So.. New Blood. had some interest in me from a few industry types, gave out a few cards, put about a million in the toilets/on coffee tables/bars/floors/cushions (e-mail address is on my blog and mobile number is at the very bottom of my card), had some book crits from Leo Burnetts Chris and Caroline/The Artworks Stephanie Alexander (thank you guys!) and drank alotta free beer (thank you Lydia).
Went to the training and advice sessions yesterday in Notting Hill too, holding it in a cinema was really cool, looked great and really good also as you could pay for one session and then just bumble into the next one and basically stay there all day for every session! classic cinema trick. not that i did that of course... ahem. but on that professional note, thanks to the speakers on that day, they were really useful, particularly Steve Henrys talk on 'how to be successful' (though he did clean up straight away that he didn't like that title). he had some great stories, tips and alot of well placed random quotes which came together as a great talk. Also the one called 'How to make your mark' very useful.
Got a couple of interviews coming up and a work placement or two so now ive got to go through this massive book-full of notes and groom my portfolio to a splendid state, wish me luck!

Hope you lot got from the exhibition what you wanted,

Big up the D&AD