Creative message designing has
taught me the power of communication, the value of word, and the
responsibilities of being speaker. Persuading and influencing an audience using
positive, inspiring, educational, humorous, and clever means takes a creative
and versatile designer. Whether it’s selling products or ideas, my goal is to
enlighten others enough to modify behavior and provoke thought. I am ready to
undertake professional objectives and challenge myself as I stand up to your
audiences.
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Sincerely, Amanda Hamlin
The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Practice and
Analysis
Graduated
August, 2011
The Pita Pit – Columbus, OH
Shift Manager, Menu
designer - March 2008-January 2011
Burlington Coat Factory – Macedonia,
OH
Sales Associate, Voice
Committee Member - September 2011-Present
Microsoft
Word ♦ Microsoft Excel ♦some Microsoft Access
ArcSoft
Photostudio ♦ Some HTML ♦ Acoustica Mixcraft
AP Style ♦ Speech Writing ♦ Dialogical
♦ Broadcast ♦ PSA
English ♦ French (near fluency) ♦
Spanish (intermediate)
Illustration ♦ Concept
Sketching
“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and
beholder. “
"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the
democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest."
“A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be
more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.”
My digital design experience includes web pages, graphics,
and flyers. This flyer was published in The Saver, a food magazine for Ohio
State students; it was delivered to over 20,000 thousand people.
A franchise restaurant’s menu needed to be redesigned to
reflect some changes and include a personal message from the owner. He wanted
the information to be arranged so that that it demonstrated the ordering
process.
Buckling
your seatbelt should be presented in a way that glorifies the behavior instead
of using images of fatal crashes to frighten or shock the
audience
The goal is to
surprise the audience when an unsuspecting driver demands that his passengers
buckle up.
To have an effect on the audiences’ attitudes towards
buckling up, specifically to increase their positive dispositions towards the
behavior.
This is a quick
reminder that even people who take risks and defy laws still buckle up. And
under pressing situations, too.
The excessive matter and waste
is creating unhygienic living conditions for people all over the world. Some
people have no choice and are victims of poverty, while other people neglect
caring for their living space and accumulate massive amounts of trash and other
belongings.
I'd like to encourage people
to become conscious consumers and recognize their own lifestyles and the amount
of waste they produce.
To have an effect on the
audience’s attitude towards the world’s waste and hoarding problem,
specifically to generate interest in the societal impact of hoarding and
environmental impact of material waste.
This graphic could be used to solidify a
pre-existing negative disposition towards people who hoard. It can evoke an
emotional response if the audience member were a hoarder and hadn’t before
equated their own filth to that of a 3rd world country. This graphic
could be used to gain support for sending our waste to someplace such as the
moon or other territories.
People take for granted how
privileged they really are.
Think twice before complaining
about being denied something never earned or deserved in the first place.
To have an effect on the
audience’s attitude towards convenience in their own lives, specifically to
generate new perspectives about luxury and privilege.
Consider how living without
technology, luxurious things, or even basic necessities might be like.
Using the play on words this
message is intended to make modern Western thought and the definition of our
word convenient
Mental health and technological factors can reshape
personalities and increase dissociative behaviors. The ways people communicate
and interact are changing at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, face to face
interactions have been devalued and reprioritized.
Inspired by the ‘random
acts of kindness’ philosophy, “Help A Homie, I DID” (Integrating Dissociative
Identity Disorder) is geared towards gaining self-esteem, recognition, and
physiological satisfaction by helping people in a process which includes recognizing
opportunities to interact, setting goals, taking risks, then getting credit for
your deeds by inspiring others to do the same.
To have an effect on
the awareness of patients of the “Help-a-Homie, I DID” campaign, specifically
to increase their understanding of the benefits of doing good deeds.
To have an effect on the acceptance of patients of the
campaign, specifically to increase their positive attitudes towards doing good
deeds.
To have an effect on the action of patients of the
campaign, specifically to increase their good deeds.
“Keeping peace and
properness, a stoic tongue and ear in check - help a homie, cause I DID, and
now I get respect”
The transition to a
technologically based culture has dramatically transformed the way people
communicate and express themselves. Computer-mediated-communication offers
alternative forms of expression which users can adopt to enhance their
messaging semantics.
Introduce the Delta symbol as a means of
expressing change in one’s affective disposition and integrate its use in
text-messaging, e-mail, and other forms of computer-mediated-communication.
Have an effect on the audience’s awareness of
Music is a medium for transmitting messages as well as
entertaining listeners. These micro messages are sub consciously received by
listeners which makes them powerful tools for influence and persuasion.
Mainstream rap and hip hop artists educate listeners
oftentimes without virtue or regard to the truth
