GUESS WHAT?!

yes my friends, the deadline has been moved-collective sigh of relief to make last minute edits and tweaks!
enjoy!

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Kiva is looking for interns!

Contact Tamara if you're interested. Also send a resume and portfolio link to the email address in the posting below.
TamaraKhan@kiva.org

Advertising Design Intern

Reports to: Marketing Manager
Location: San Francisco Mission District
Job Type: Internship

The Company...
Called the "hottest non-profit on the planet" by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world's first person-to-person lending marketplace for the poor. In just 4 years, Kiva has raised $100+ million for 300,000+ entrepreneurs in 50+ countries. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with an intense focus on alleviating global poverty. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level - targeting $1 billion in loans by 2015 and expansion into new areas (e.g. student loans, climate change, etc). Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva's team has 50 employees and 500+ volunteers.

Job Description
Kiva is currently seeking an Advertising Design Intern to produce advertising design assets for www.Kiva.org.

Job Responsibilities

The Advertising Design Intern will work closely and collaboratively with the Marketing Manager & Community Director to create beautiful and representative ad campaigns for Kiva.org.

You will gather requirements from a variety of stakeholders, define design problems & opportunities, collect insights & inspiration from print & the web, and work collaboratively with the team to produce design strategies that meet the needs of the Kiva community. Once your strategy is approved, you will prototype designs, gather feedback to refine your designs, and be responsible for producing ad assets.

Kiva is a fantastic cause and a powerful brand, your designs will bring excitement and attention to Kiva with meaningful and moving advertising strategies and creative.

Skills / Qualifications:

• Excellent visual communication skills
• Interest and Knowledge of marketing strategy, particularly in Social Media
• Ability to receive and respond constructively to feedback
• Proficiency with Photoshop, Flash, and Illustrator

Applications:

• Interested parties should submit a portfolio, resume, and cover letter to jobs@kiva.org. Include in the subject line: Advertising Design Intern.

Web Interaction Design Intern

Reports to: Product Manager
Location: San Francisco Mission District
Job Type: Internship

The Company...
Called the "hottest non-profit on the planet" by FORTUNE magazine and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world's first person-to-person lending marketplace for the poor. In just 4 years, Kiva has raised $100+ million for 300,000+ entrepreneurs in 50+ countries. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with an intense focus on alleviating global poverty. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level - targeting $1 billion in loans by 2015 and expansion into new areas (e.g. student loans, climate change, etc). Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva's team has 50 employees and 500+ volunteers.

Job Description
Kiva is currently seeking an Interaction Design Intern to produce web design assets for www.Kiva.org.

Job Responsibilities

The Interaction Design Intern will work closely and collaboratively with the Product Manager to create visual experiences that are beautiful, usable, and representative of Kiva’s mission and brand.

You will gather requirements from a variety of stakeholders, define design problems & opportunities, collect insights & inspiration from print & the web, and work collaboratively with the team to produce design strategies that meet the needs of the Kiva community. Once your strategy is approved, you will prototype designs, gather feedback to refine your designs, and be responsible for producing final site assets.

Kiva is a complex data driven product with a wide variety of stakeholders and needs, your designs will balance and embrace that diversity with simple, elegant, and fun to use solutions.

Skills / Qualifications:

• Excellent visual communication skills
• Information Architecture & Visual UI Development knowledge
• Interest in usability
• Ability to receive and respond constructively to feedback
• Proficiency with Photoshop, Flash, and Illustrator

Applications:

• Interested parties should submit a portfolio, resume, and cover letter to jobs@kiva.org. Include in the subject line: Interaction Design Intern.

ROKKAN is hiring!

Here is the Job Description. and check out our website! http://rokkan.com

Flash Animator

Rokkan is looking for full-time and contract Flash animators ranging from junior to mid-level positions to work in our San Francisco office. Candidates should be comfortable versed in Actionscript 2.0 and 3.0 and show a strong talent for motion, audio and animation. Flash animator will work on a wide range of projects creating animated sequences, UI interaction, intro sequences, ad units and more.

Requirements:

2+ years of Flash animation
Proficient with Photoshop and Illustrator
Portfolio of animation projects ranging from ad unit executions, preloaders to site intro animations
Strong audio and sound effects experience
Knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
Well versed in Flash video technologies
Additional technologies a plus (SVN, Flex, AIR, PHP, .Net, etc., various mobile phone apps helpful)
ROKKAN is a full service digital agency wit offices in New York and San Francisco. We work with some of the most distinguished brands in the world launching cross-platform solutions for web, e-commerce, social media and online campaigns. We are a team of planners, producers, information architects, analysts, creatives and technologists dedicated to our clients' success.

email me if you have questions sandrawhyhong@gmail.com

Gnomes love Chat Roulette

i wonder how many c•••s one would have to go through till you found this:
traveliocity uses chatroulette

Future Lions: AAU Student entry from 2009

Hi all,

Below is an entry that one of my ad students submitted to Future Lions last year. It might be a good example of a demo. -Jon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFoFC5yk4jA

Odor Blocker

Dude, it's Terry Crews!
SO GOOD.
Watch them all.







You know you want to watch them again, so do it.

History of Advertising, yay!

Cool article on the history of marketing and advertising from Ad Age
CHECK IT OUT SUCKAS