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Thursday 13 July 2006

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The charming Designers are Wankers are holding a video-phone portrait contest. How very modern. They say:

We want you to flex those artistic muscles and create a film all about you. The objective here is to sell yourself (and not your soul) to a potential employer/client by illustrating how your services are of benefit to their organisation. The duration of the video is to be no longer than 30 seconds, but the quota of imagination on how you approach it is limitless. The winner will be awarded the prize of £5,000, and in addition, job vacancies in various areas of design will be offered at competitive salaries.

The best footage will then be distributed via DVD. How very anachronistic — why not on YouTube? This project is very much like Showstudio’s recent Amaze Me but hopefully with more interesting results. We’ll see.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: design, mobile phones, photography

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