LinkedIn.com

The other day I was getting my network on, trying to find if anyone in the UK prints snowboards, that search came to no avail, I did however find something else pretty interesting.

From finding out a name, Brandon Ramirez, the creative director at Ride Snowboards and typing it into google, found this site Linkedin.com

Big thing in America for businesses of all nature, kind of a social site where people can contact fellow colleagues, apply for new jobs, get recommendations, message other people, all sorts! But yeah found Ramirez on there and now have a direct line of contact with the head guy at Ride snowboards, now this is pretty exciting for me. I'm putting off getting in touch straight away as I would like to send him a portfolio I felt confident with and that would be a portfolio with the work I'm doing now, so may leave it until christmas to send Ramirez a message.

Aswell as this on peoples profiles they have boxes of similar people in similar fields of work so from finding Ramirez I found all the guys at Super top Secret studio along with people at Burton and K2. winner.

I've made my profile but have yet to really do anything with it! Something I need to get to grips with and understand the nature of more.

My profile:

Aaron Sather, STS / DEATH & TAXES:
Brandon Ramirez:

Super Top Secret

"Super Top Secret is an Interactive focused creative shop with unique capabilities in Design and Advertising. If we were an animal we’d be a Tuatara. It’s got 3 eyes and 3 rows of teeth. Look it up."

"Our business model is simple:

Do awesome work for awesome clients. If you’re an awesome company who wants awesome work, let’s hook it up."

Came across this website for an American design agency based in Salt Lake city.From what I gather, its a team of young guys who love boarding and biking and produce work for some of the biggest names in snowboarding. Mostly doing the artwork for boards. The set up is a bit odd as two of the people who work for STS (SuperTopSecret) have got their own design studio, Death & Taxes. However they seem to share work, both having the same work on their websites and such.

Either way, looks a sick place and I'd love to see myself in a studio like this.

On the site they have a section about applying for a job and also interns, i plan to send them a cheeky message seeing if i could do a cheeky over-seas intern or something, I plan to wait till after christmas to do so because then I should have a body of work that I am proud of and feel truly represents me as a designer.