30 Brilliant Creative Resumés

Kalyan Ram prasad October 9th, 2013, at dawn

Nice CV's

Karl Randay November 25th, 2013, in the afternoon

Now, I'm probably putting my neck on the block with this, but I find it very hard to not hate these kinds of CVs. As creative as they are they fail at one important task.

Being a CV.

I'm a firm believer that the creative work and history of an individual should sell them, presented so that it is easy to disseminate who they are and what they have done for whom. I guess it's the traditional typographer in me, but the challenge of creating something that has such an important and rigorous job to do, to communicate to a future employer all of your credentials and accolades, is so vitally important that to shroud your personality with even slightly over-engineered presentation comes across as if you are trying to hide behind something.

I think these examples do show a great sense of creativity, but I think they ignore the greater challenge and have missed a fundamental chance at being great and memorable but focussing on the information they present, rather than the intention of the person behind them.

Michael Tomes November 25th, 2013, late afternoon

Hi Karl,

Interesting point. We put these in more for those who are trying to get a first job. They tend to not have a body of work that they can use to showcase their skills and are up against 100-200+ others who are all trying to get their foot on the ladder. This can be one of the only places for them to show what they can do as they don't have a body of work to back up the words.

I've hired a lot of designers in my time and when you've got a stack of 200 CV's then doing something like this will make you take notice. I used to work in the same office as a person who would take all the CV's they had through, shuffle them and throw out half of them in the bin - his justification was that he didn't like "unlucky people". All the CV's looked the same.

Standing out as an individual should still be at the heart of being a designer. And I do feel with most of these examples that the information is still well laid out and legible.

Lukasz Foycik December 27th, 2013, late at night

Nice as design concept but very unusful in real life.

TIAGO • BOB January 8th, 2014, at noon

http://creativepool.com/bobdesign/projects/89222

Ernesto November 5th, 2020, in the evening

Here is one more, full of links, for you to consider... ;)

http://ernex.es/ERNEX_CV_2012.pdf