From the course: Social Media for Graphic Designers
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Using Pinterest to improve discovery
From the course: Social Media for Graphic Designers
Using Pinterest to improve discovery
- [Von] I was at a design conference, not too far back and talked to an illustrator I met from Toronto. In the midst of our conversation, he told me a story about how rapper Sean Combs' assistant contacted him about doing some design work for one of their businesses. That intrigued me so I asked him, "How did they find you?" And he said, they discovered his work on Pinterest. So I decided to use my redundancy tactic on Pinterest, just like I do on Behance. But, I leverage Pinterest and use it in the way I want to use it, not the way it was intended. So let me show you my page and explain it. So this is my account on Pinterest and you can see, I have several different boards here. I have a GS Branding board, a GS Illustration board, GS Sports Mascots board, GS Hand Lettering, GS Posters and GS Patterns. I use it almost as a portfolio of various services I am able to provide. And that's really not how Pinterest intended it…
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