ELISE SMIDT
Talks
I love sharing my little bits of knowledge with students and junior creatives, and have organised and held several talks over the past years. I also participate in the weekly Online Video Crits with Young Creative Council.
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Looking for an enthusiastic speaker with endless energy and lots of insider knowledge on how to go from desperate student to creative in your dream job? Pop me an email at elisesmidt@hotmail.com
Here are some pictures of talks I've done.
Young Creative Council
22 October 2019
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Every junior creative out there knows the feeling: you’re working on a project, trying to come up with genius ideas, but everything you scamp up just seem quite shit. You compare all this to the award-winning work of industry legends and think: how will I ever be as good as them?
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My old creative partner Karina and I organised a talk, From Shit to Shit-Hot, where inspiring creatives Scarlett Montanaro, Stu Outhwaite-Noel, Jo Wallace, and Jose Miguel Sokoloff explained that even they had to start somewhere back in the day, and that it’s completely normal to feel like you’re shit once in a while. It’s the talk we wish we attended when we were desperately looking for a job. Around 100 young creatives showed up to the MullenLowe office for the 3-hour event.
New Blood Academy 2019
23 July 2019
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We were asked to be speakers at this year's D&AD Academy. We gave a 40-minute talk called "World domination 101" where we shared all our little tips on how to get an internship, and eventually a job as Advertising Creatives.
Edinburgh Napier University
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Karina and I took over Napier's MSc Creative Advertising class for a day, giving them a live brief to brainstorm on and telling them all about our experience. They were all exhausted after 5 hours of an intense crash course and listening to our rambles. I've been asked to do a couple more (online) talks for Napier since then and I mentor a couple of their students as well.
