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Student Design Competition Q&A: The Copy

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Should You Work For Free?

As aspiring designers (and really all of us designer-types), you probably get hit up often to use your talents on behalf of someone else for the huge lump sum of "experience" and "portfolio pieces". Sometimes working for free is worth it. Most of the time, it isn't. But what's a student designer to do when they've got limited experience to get the paying jobs? Well, check out this awesome and hilarious flow-chart, courtesy of typographer/illustrator-extrordinaire Jessica Hische. It'll be your guide the next time you get offered the generous payment of "future work". 

Student Competition Q&A: Do I Have to Be in a Publication Design Class?

As our Student Competition deadline quickly approaches (March 7), we're answering your questions to help you figure out all the details, rules, and guidelines. If YOU have a question, email us at mail@spd.org, and we may answer it here.

I'm an art student interested in graphic design and I think I could design a pretty awesome magazine spread, but I haven't taken any publication design classes. Can I still enter your competition?


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Student Competition Q&A: The Internships

It says one of the prizes in the Student Design Competition is an internship. When and where does that take place exactly?


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Student Competition Q&A: December Grads

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You Ask, We Answer: Student Competition Edition

I don't live in the U.S.
 
Can I still enter the Student Design Competition?



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You Ask, We Answer

This is the first post in our new Q&A series. Whether it's about magazines, or the job hunt, or maybe just trying to figure out how to do something in InDesign, send us your question and we'll get our SPD "experts" to give you their answers. Email us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com.

The Fall Pub(lications) Crawl was a wonderful experience and I certainly feel like I learned a lot and gained valuable information. I would love to go on the Pub Crawl in the spring. When will the locations be decided, and can I be notified when the information is posted? Once again thank you; it was tons of fun.
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