How you present your portfolio can easily make or break it for you. This week in “Building Design Portfolios,” it tells how to present a print portfolio. You must select the best examples of your work and order them in a way that flows. Having random works of art from different time periods of your [...]
I was working on my website comps today and decided to use my old style on this website on one of the designs, but with a much more minimal use of colors and texture. I like the style and after reading "Building Design Portfolios," I realized that the style can always be updated later. I [...]
This week I read about what makes a good design brief and what makes a good design process. As with many other subjects in this area, there is no perfect method to use for everything or everyone. You must find your own method that works for you, but there are some good guidelines to start [...]
Over the past week, I read about clients and many ways of dealing with them. Now I always knew that dealing with clients wouldn’t be easy, but I didn’t know it could potentially be VERY hard. There are many dos and don’ts when dealing with clients. For instance, there are many designers who complain about [...]
When you set out to find work for yourself as a designer, you are going to have to be able to sell yourself. However, there are ways to NOT sell yourself as I discovered after reading chapter 6 of “How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul.” The author claims that talking too [...]
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