Every year, we bring together a curated group of top Design Directors, Photo Directors, and Visual Creatives from an assortment of publication and brands who are looking for new talent. SPD sets the standard for editorial excellence. This is your opportunity to put your best portfolio forward and talk with industry leaders and share your work one-on-one in our annual Illustration Portfolio Review and Photography Portfolio Review events.

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Illustration Portfolio Review

Past reviewers include: AARP, Amazon Publishing, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News, Entertainment Weekly, Grubhub/Seamless, Hallmark, HarperCollins Children's Books, Major League Baseball, Men’s Health, Netflix, The New York Times, NPR, Random House Children's Books, Scholastic Inc., Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.

Check out past Illustration Portfolio Reviews below!

2023 / ILLUSTRATION: FILIP FRÖHLICH; DESIGN: JANA MEIER-ROBERTS

2020 / ILLUSTRATIONS: Yiran Guo | TYPOGRAPHY: Simon Abranowicz

Photography Portfolio Review

Past reviewers include: Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Clinique, ELLE, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Facebook, Fast Company, Food & Wine, Glamour, Google, GQ, The Hollywood Reporter, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, People, Roku, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Warby Parker, The Washington Post,, WIRED, WSJ. Magazine, WWE and many more.

Check out past Photography Portfolio Reviews below!