9.22.2011
5.11.2011
5.06.2011
Clean Up Your Mess
Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone
If you're like most people, you feel like a baby when it comes to visual design. You sometimes have a vague sense of what you want, but can't articulate it or make it come about. All you can do is point and cry. This guide will help you communicate with conscious skill. It will show you how to create designs that are easy to understand and attractive.
4.30.2011
RIT Student Portfolios
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Welcome to the Rochester Institute of Tech. 'Creativity: Careers in Motion' online student portfolio portal. Browse through the majors below to review student work, research and resumes.
4.29.2011
Building a Strong Design Portfolio
Building a Strong Design Portfolio -- Web and Graphic Design Portfolio Advice -- DesignMentor Training
In the design industry, your work speaks for itself. You might have the longest resume in the world, the coolest credentials, the slickest identity kit. It all matters for naught if your portfolio is weak. Clients and employers evaluate you for jobs primarily on the basis of work you've accomplished.
Building a strong portfolio is essential to launching your career as a designer. But how do you craft quality work when you're still learning the ropes?
4.03.2011
Internship Focused Sites!
Internships and Internship Guidance – Internships.com
Intern Queen Inc., Find Interns, Get Internships. All with a Personal Touch | Get the Internship you want and learn how to make the most of your experience
Internships.com serves as the leading nexus between internships and students, higher education and employers.
At internships.com we develop world class tools and services to enable every student, employer and educator to better understand and optimize the work opportunities of the future.
Intern Queen Inc., Find Interns, Get Internships. All with a Personal Touch | Get the Internship you want and learn how to make the most of your experience
Business Week Magazine named Lauren Berger number 5 on their annual list of Young Entrepreneurs 25 Under 25. America Online says, “If you are going to college and wondering what you are going to do this summer – you need to look her up.” Mobile Youth has placed her in the top 10 Youth Marketing Minds of 2010.
Lauren Berger is CEO of Intern Queen Inc, an online internship destination that helps students find and apply for internships while also educating them on how to make the most of their experiences.
Berger grew up in Clearwater, Florida and participated in 15 internships during her 4 years of college, hence the title "Intern Queen". Berger earned a degree in Organizational Business Communications at the University of Central Florida and interned for top-notch companies across the country such as MTV, FOX, BWR Public Relations, and NBC.
1.02.2011
10 Online Tools for Better Attention & Focus
10 Online Tools for Better Attention & Focus
A recent happiness study from Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that the more our minds wander, the less happy we are. Summing the research, the New York Times wrote, 'Whatever people were doing, whether it was having sex or reading or shopping, they tended to be happier if they focused on the activity instead of thinking about something else.' In short, being mentally 'present' and focused on the task at hand really does matter – quite a lot, in fact.
Creative Portfolio Display for LinkedIn
Creative Portfolio Display | LinkedIn
Creative Portfolio Display is a professional way to showcase your creative work in your LinkedIn Profile.
* A free and easy way to display your visual work.
* Present creative projects done for past clients or for your personal portfolio.
* Showcase your creative talent to recruiters and professional contacts viewing your profile.
12.30.2010
Coroflot on Portfolio Reviews
A portfolio doesn't speak for itself, by Jim Best of Pensa
Assessing creative freelancers, by Terra Dehnert of Aquent
Competition for getting a new job is getting tougher every day. As a prospective employer, I've found that it's easy to weed out design candidates who don't show a grasp of basic skills, but frustrating and difficult to tell the difference between an incapable candidate, and one who just isn't communicating well. This is where good talent gets passed over. There's not much time in an interview situation for everyone to really get to know each other and imagine the possibilities of working together; because time is tight, you need to be organized and communicate clearly.
Assessing creative freelancers, by Terra Dehnert of Aquent
When my clients approach me looking for creative freelancers, they tend to come at the last minute for unique and highly skilled individuals -- of which 5 exist in the universe. Today one of my top retail clients praised the work of a designer I sent out for a 4-hour project. Another needs a proofreader and a production artist to put the final touches on their annual report, one of the most highly visible projects they produce each year. Obviously, I can't send creative talent to these clients that would make even an inkling of a mistake. Luckily for me the company I work for has developed hands-on assessments that make sure our talent head out the door, armed with skills to impress… and usually a pretty stylish outfit to boot.
11.03.2010
5 Reasons to Hone Your Verbal and Written Skills
Measuring Up: 5 Reasons to Hone Your Verbal and Written Skills — AIGA | the professional association for design
How do you rate in the workplace? What are best practices? What skills do designers need in order to excel at and accelerate in their careers? AIGA and Roz Goldfarb Associates surveyed a small, but geographically diverse group of hiring managers to learn about the skills they seek in creative talent beyond visual communication abilities. This is the first in a series of articles sharing their insights and constructive comments for designers, to offer a window onto the hopes (and frustrations) of your potential employers. We hope this information will be useful, so please share your thoughts and questions, too.
10.12.2010
An Introduction to Graphic Design
An Introduction to Graphic Design: Observatory: Design Observer
Broadly defined, graphic designers (sometimes referred to as “communication designers”) are the visual ambassadors of ideas: their role is to translate, communicate — and occasionally even agitate — by rendering thinking as form, process and
experience. *
10.09.2010
Vecteezy
Free Vector Art - Download Free Vector Art Graphics at Vecteezy!
Vecteezy is a community of vector art! We provide a place for vector artists to create and exchange a variety of free vector graphics like Vector Icons, Vector Patterns, Vector Swirls, Flourishes and other cool stuff to enchance your designs and creativity.
10.08.2010
The Now Habit
The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
I've read The Now Habit multiple times, I've given copies away to college freshman I'm teaching (every year I watch them struggle with procrastination and time management), and I've praised the book to anyone who confided in their struggles with procrastination and a sense of despair in the overwhelming nature of their work. If you've read books about procrastination and put them down in frustration after they turned out to be a rehash of the old 'just focus and work harder!' shtick, Neil Fiore's The Now Habit is a refreshing look at the habits and thinking that drive procrastination and what you can do to change the way you work and play.
8.26.2010
The End of Forgetting
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com
According to a recent survey by Microsoft, 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, personal Web sites and blogs, Twitter and online-gaming sites. Seventy percent of U.S. recruiters report that they have rejected candidates because of information found online, like photos and discussion-board conversations and membership in controversial groups.
8.23.2010
Why Are College Students Studying Less?
A good read for the beginning of a new semester:
Why Are College Students Studying Less? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
Why Are College Students Studying Less? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
Classes begin this week at many college campuses around the country. A recent report by two economists at the University of California found that over the past four decades the time college students spend in class and studying has decreased substantially, from 40 hours a week in 1961 to 27 hours a week in 2003. At the same time, a report released in July by the Delta Cost Project found college spending on instruction declining while spending on recreation and student services rose.
What are students doing with their time? Are hours that might be spent in library carrels being diverted to educational extracurricular activities? Or are students simply enjoying more leisure because colleges demand less of them?
8.19.2010
Danish Design School Exhibition Images
Graduation Exhibition 2010 - a set on Flickr
The Danish Design School and friends celebrate and showcase the work of 75 designers on their way into the world.
August 19 - 31th
Carlsberg, Pasteursvej 4, 6. sal, 1778 Copenhagen V.
Opening Hours: 11am – 6pm. Weekends: 11am – 5pm.
The 2010 Graduation Show presents the latest prognoses for Danish design by 75 graduate students. With a very high graduation grade average this year’s graduates demonstrate that modern material skills, a strong theoretical basis and a playful conceptual awareness can make a difference.
From service design, redesign of stucco and campaigns for the Red Cross to fashion, new types of housing, pocket parks and user-friendly medicine packaging
From LED-driven glass objects, storytelling for TV, video and the web - to digital services, business models, patient hotels and service design that teach young people how to become experts on the Danish tax system. Meet crazy illustrations, new interaction design or industrial design with a playful, public approach to health issues. All examples of design that addresses essential questions which affect our daily life in 2010.
8.18.2010
History of graphic Design Resource
Design Is History
As a designer it is important to understand where design came from, how it developed, and who shaped its evolution. The more exposure you have to past, current and future design trends, styles and designers, the larger your problem-solving toolkit. The larger your toolkit, the more effective of a designer you can be.
Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, this site was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library.
A Blog on Ethics in Graphic Design
Ethics in Graphic Design
Eileen MacAvery Kane created this blog as part of her MFA thesis in graphic design at Savannah College of Art and Design as a forum for the exploration of ethical issues in graphic design, to provide resources for further investigation, and to create an open dialogue among graphic designers about these critical issues.
Ethics: A Graphic Designer’s Field Guide, was created to serve as a handbook and reference for the topics. More information is posted on the guide page. Both the blog and handbook were created for her MFA thesis entitled “Ethics in Graphic Design: A Call to Arms for an Undergraduate Course.”
8.13.2010
Comp It Up: A Studio Skills Foundation
As a professor of interactive and graphic design, many books cross my desk each semester. Every now & then there is one or two I get excited about. This is one of those books. If you are one of my students - this is a must read - order it now. :)
Amazon.com: Comp It Up: A Studio Skills Foundation (9781428322356): Rose Gonnella, Christopher J. Navetta: Books
Amazon.com: Comp It Up: A Studio Skills Foundation (9781428322356): Rose Gonnella, Christopher J. Navetta: Books
Comp It Up: A Studio Skills Foundation is a one of kind practical and functional guide for students learning to produce professional-level comprehensive mockups and portfolio presentations in graphic design. This text not only covers a wide range of materials and techniques needed to produce these mockups, but it also promotes creative inspiration with hundreds of images and examples. Readers will also find dozens of step by step visuals to help them in learning how to work out more difficult techniques. Exploring both traditional print and new media applications, Comp It Up is adaptable to a variety of graphic design and advertising design applications. Using this text, students will not only learn the skills they need to build comprehensive mockups, but they will also gain the knowledge and confidence needed to present them professionally.
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