Portfolio Tips and Guides

Portfolio Tips and Guides

"The end of the school year is coming soon and many students or graduates need to prepare their portfolios to get an internship or job. The professional designers should also update their portfolio once or twice a year [really? ed]."

How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body | Smashing Magazine

What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes? The answer differs slightly, depending on whether one aims for print or Web-based environments.

How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body | Smashing Magazine

“I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer.”

Avería – The Average Font, via Adam G.

AIGA | Tips for Designers: Nailing the Interview

Ashley Rundall, Art Director, Savage

I can still remember my senior year of college… building a portfolio, researching places I dreamed of working and sending countless pleas for an interview. I not only remember how nervous I was, but how clueless and unprepared I was for “a real job.” Now looking back, I wish I had someone to give me more direction on how to get interviews, prepare for them, what to do after interviews and the most important part, how to be good at the interview process. By no means do I have all of the answers, but I do have some useful tips that I would have greatly benefited from… and I hope that you can too.

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COME TOGETHER: CCA MFA Design Exhibition 2012

COME TOGETHER is a celebration of the collective work of 31 disparate designers, linked by the practice of transdisciplinary design. It is an event, two years in the making, in which our unique lines of thought, processes, and methodologies converge and intersect in one final exhibition.

MFA Grad-wide Grand Opening
Thursday, May 10
6–10pm
CCA opens its doors to the entire community. COME TOGETHER will run concurrently with the Fine Arts show. Open to the general public.

California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

www.cca.edu

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ccagradthesis.com/design / design.cca.edu

http://www.typeconnection.com/index.php

Type Connection is a game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces.

Yay!