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Dear Jennifer,
With a large excitement to enter the design and advertising world, I write to you to inform you of my desire to join your design team at Barkley. Through the combination of work I have done as a student, the experience of having an on campus design job, and the real world experience I gained as a graphic design intern this last summer, I have felt myself transform into a designer ready to take on a career.
Last September, I attended the tour of the Barkley studio with several members of Prototype at KU. Meeting you, as well as Luke and Spencer, I was inspired and found myself incredibly excited to put all of my efforts into my senior year, and continue developing into a young designer. On the tour, it was clear to me just how committed Barkley is to its clients. The designers we saw working at the time were clearly invested in their work, and the environment was
In early 2012, I was in search of a summer internship opportunity. Andrea suggested that Barkley would be a good fit. With another year’s experience, I feel as though the spending that summer at Barkley would have been the experience that I really needed. Although the circumstances did not allow for it, I am hoping for a second chance at joining the team at Barkley.
I appreciate your consideration and time spent looking at my portfolio and its contents. I am hoping to visit the Barkley studio once again, and getting the chance to follow up with you.
Sincerely,
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Dear Ann,
With the anticipation of graduating in May so near, I am writing to you to express my interest in becoming a part of the Willoughby team. During a recent show-and-tell Portfolio session with recent alum from the graphic design program, I spoke with Cat Coquilette. She expressed how much she enjoys working as a designer at Willoughby, and her enthusiasm led me to further research your work.
Despite the amazing experience I have had over the last four years, I am eager and excited to begin my career as a designer in the professional world. With enthusiasm and a willingness to learn, I believe that I would be a good fit for the creative team at Willoughby. The small environment would be a great place for me to contribute creatively and develop relationships with those that I work closely with.
What I find the most intriguing about Willoughby is the wide variety of clients and the visual aesthetics that have been developed. I describe myself as hard working, patient and creative, qualities that seem to align with the values at Willoughby.
In conclusion, I believe Willoughby is a place I can inspire and be inspired, and use my talents as a medium to improve the lives of others. Thank you for taking the time to review my portfolio. I will follow up in a few weeks to possibly set up a time to meet.
Best regards,
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Dear Elysa Brisko,
With a strong desire to innovate and connect with others, I am writing to express my interest in Moosylvania’s creative department. I found your company when researching design agencies, only to realize I had seen and admired work from your creative studio on Behance.
As my understanding of myself as a designer has grown I have found that I greatly enjoy projects that provide opportunities to collaborate with others. Working as a designer for the University Daily Kansan I have found great satisfaction in working with both clients and team members to usher ideas into fully realized advertising campaigns. Additionally, I’ve found that there is very little so rewarding as overcoming a truly challenging design problem. Because design is what I love to do and there really is nothing better than more of what you love.
It’s because of this that I really connected with Moosylvania’s philosophy and subsequently Moosylvania’s body of work. “Working with inspiring challenges, great companies and new frontiers” as an everyday mantra, and even as a design attitude, sounds phenomenal. The innovation, direction, and creativity evident in Moosylvania’s work is an endeavor I would greatly like to be apart of.
Thank you for taking the time to look over my resumé. I will contact you within the next week to discuss its contents and speak further about Moosylvania’s creative team. I appreciate your time and consideration, and I look forward to speaking with you.
Sincerely,
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::It’s a strange position I’m in this year. Just a few months shy of finishing over a dozen years’ worth of formal schooling, I find myself face-to-face with the inevitable situation I confess I didn’t ever believe would actually exist. Needless to say, graduating college is one of the most exciting moments of an individual’s life—albeit one of the most frightening. And as I begin narrowing the various agencies and studios for whom I’d like to dedicate my talents, Crispin Porter Bogusky has shone to the forefront of my periphery.
If someone had asked me five years ago if advertising was in my top three choices of post-graduate career directions, I’d have laughed and said, “I’m a designer. Not an salesman.” But three remarkably important events have transpired in my life over the last few years, birthing something of a revelation that advertising is exactly what my creative background longs to explore. The first was a series of internships I’ve enjoyed the past two summers at Hallmark Cards, where I came to understand the remarkably integral degree to which the consumer plays a role in the design process. Second, I took an Integrated Marketing Communications class last Fall, and was exposed to the deep interconnectivity between business and creative expression. Lastly, I moved into the role of Creative Director at the campus newspaper and found incredible satisfaction in marketing a powerful product to my fellow students. I don’t know if I’ve ever worked harder—or understood more about the relationship between a visual message and the values and beliefs that stand behind the company for whom that visual message does its work.
Having immersed myself in the complex world of visual language for the past four years, I’ve grown well-versed in the ways through which aesthetics affect communication. My experience includes two incredibly educational internships at Hallmark Cards and working as Creative Director of the nationally-awarded advertising staff of the university daily kansan, where me and my team of designers dream up hundreds of innovative advertising and marketing campaigns per week. Through one of my senior classes, I’m working with local designer & illustrator Tad Carpenter to develop and launch a new paper product line for Vahalla Studios, the nature of which revolves around re-usable paper gifts. Last year, I collaborated with KC firm Kuhn and Wittenborn to design children’s posters for the Coterie Theatre. I’ve received numerous design scholarships, been awarded twice by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, won both local and national design contests (including having my design selected by 20th Century Fox as a finalist for the australia movie poster competition), and had work published in chalk magazine and the university daily kansan. My software proficiency includes Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign—but, more importantly, my skill expertise includes wit, creativity, audacity, and a keen propensity for finding solutions to problems not often discovered by others.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my application; I look forward to speaking with you soon.
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