CV/resume's

[thesinstar]

hey for my degree I've been asked to make a creative CV, but man is this hard I'm having trouble thinking abut if I make it really flamboyant to show off my design skills or to try and make it professional looking. I was just wondering what you guys thought and maybe what your own CV's look like cheers for any help also it is my first post so if I have done something wrong sorry guys

[Minuteman Press]

Styles - CD fold-out cover, flight tickets, Apple advert. A few ideas for format.

[spottypenguin]

Styles - CD fold-out cover, flight tickets, Apple advert. A few ideas for format.

I agree a good basis for a student piece but as an employer how would you honestly feel if you received a CV that was outside the norm in a showboating "oo look at me I'm a design whizz" way? - I was always told it was better to have a typographically sound, stylish CV rather than an out and out 'creation'. Appreciate any employer's opinion on that, thanks.

[Minuteman Press]

Not would... do. We receive a lot of speculative applications. The creative CVs stand out, are circulated and discussed.

Designed with thought, easy to read, accurate, articulate - not an issue for me.

[spottypenguin]

Really? Thanks, that's interesting. Can I send you my CV please and tell me if it is too inherently boring?

[Tony Hardy]

Hahaha...just do it :) You would to any other employer ;)

[spottypenguin]

Hmm I am now tempted to re-design my CV as a cd jacket and experience on the disk

[ARRIVALS]

I had to do this project at uni. Mine was pretty strange. I branded myself as a -fresh new design graduate-

What's fresher than a brand new, unopened, unused pair of boxers?

Thats right. I branded myself, had it stitched into a pair of boxers, I designed packaging for the boxers, business cards, examples of work for inside the box. All branded together.

My uni liked the quirky idea, and so did the designed agencies I sent it to for feedback.

Go as mental as you want.

I'd like to point out someone else who was in my class. His second name was Carmichael. He sent people a toy car with a business card. It failed.

[Dave L]

It's good that it worked out for you but if I received an unsolicited pair of pants in the mail I'd be frickin' horrified.

[Tony Hardy]

It's good that it worked out for you but if I received an unsolicited pair of pants in the mail I'd be frickin' horrified.

As opposed to a pair of solicited pants Dave? :icon_lol: