Month: December 2014

14 Design job interview Hacks to succeed with confidence

Take the term hacking as a positive idea. You want to promote yourself, not “selling yourself”. Once again, be yourself. I will share with you some tips on how to be confident and how to better promote yourself at the interview day. I actually learned most of them when I studied business and marketing (before I joined a design school). 1. Talk about what they want, not what you want We often start our covers letters with something like: “My name is Sam Jones, I studied at Goldsmiths...

9 Tips to Achieve Your Design Dream Interview

Chou-Tac

In the previous article, I talked about turning your portfolio into your best marketing weapon. I also brought up the idea that a portfolio is made firstly to be your business partner, and only secondly to be aesthetically pleasing. Though your portfolio also shows off your personality, its main objective is to get an interview and get you hired. Most recruiters will be looking for what you can bring to the company, so make sure your portfolio shows that off! The market is, of course...

In the subway, don’t look at your phone. Sketch! (Urban Sketching)

Chou-Tac

People who are used to take the subway may spend 20, 30, 40 minutes inside per day. How many of us spend most of our time looking at the screen of the phone checking Facebook or playing Candy Crush. Today tip is about taking benefit of this time at having fun by practicing. The subway gathers at each station, with hundreds of new people. Old, young, worker, student, office lady, mom, fashionista… They are all potential subjects to get inspired by! In a subway, people remain quite static. You...

Keep in mind to draw an eye as a sphere

Chou-Tac

Tonight, I was back at Tokyu Hands to buy the PILOT Parallel. And I end bringing back home 2 extra pens for Chinese calligraphy. (Impulsive buying) The nibs are actually small brushes. These days I challenge my pen pressure with different “tools”. It’s quite interesting as I improve my pen pressure sensitivity. Draw anything in volume, even if you see it partially. When we draw an eye, 90% of the eye ball is hidden. We tend to ignore that an eye is a basically a sphere. But you have to...

To draw a bottle, start with the symmetry axis

Chou-Tac

Let’s draw a modern teapot that actually looks like a bottle. From the side view, the body is symmetrical. The difficulty here is to draw the curves of the side symmetrical. To do that. I recommend starting by drawing the symmetry axis first. This exercise could be a bit clumsy at the start. If you are right-handed, the left curve may end a bit flat. Vice versa if you are left-handed. It’s simply because of our own restriction of body movement. I love these Korean pens – Monami Usually, I...

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