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Last Chance: Register for Portfolio Reviews by 3pm Today!

Our CMYK: Student Portfolio Review event happens Thursday night, but registration closes today at 3pm, so be sure to sign up now! It's a rare chance to get hands-on personalized advice on how to prepare your book for all those upcoming internship and job interviews. It's free for all student members, but you still have to register to save your place. 

Most Common Portfolio Mistakes

In anticipation of our awesome CMYK: Portfolio Review event coming up next Thursday (you have to register by Wednesday at 3pm!), here's an interesting graphic from The Career Group's Portfolio Guide. You can download their guide (and others) here.

But if you want to find out more great advice on what makes a great magazine-design portfolio (as opposed to the more general graphic design portfolio), come to our event! You'll get one-on-one reviews and tons of great personalized suggestions. Doesn't matter what shape your book is in ... in other words, all the mistakes mentioned above? For this event, we don't care, we're here to help you make sure that stuff doesn't happen.

Wanna come? Sign up here!

CMYK: Student Portfolio Reviews Feb 23

With the spring school semester in full swing, we thought all you graduating seniors (and undergrads too!) could you use some guidance as you're cranking out those portfolios. So Come Meet Your Kind...
 
Get a critique from our publishing pros and find out what they're looking for in your book when they're looking to hire. Doesn't matter if your book is finished or still in the works ... bring what you've got and our design superstars will help you figure out what's working and what's not. Details after the jump.… MORE

As for Extra-Fancy Portfolios...

Make sure the work your portfolio is showcasing is as strong or stronger than your presentation. That's the advice of designer Chanpory Rith. His advice is geared more towards advertising design, but it's worth considering. Check out his portfolio post here. And then read his "7 Deadly Sins of Resume Design" and the comments section too for a great discussion on what to do and not to do. He also gives great tips on how to pretty-up a Word doc resume here.

And while we're on the topic ... we're in the midst of planning our fall portfolio event, so if you have any questions or suggestions for us, we'd love to hear 'em!

Advice: You Want to Be Brain-Googled.

Over on A Photo Editor (a blog you read, right?), there's a question about portfolios with some great insight and advice. Yes, it's geared towards aspiring photographers (which you may be), but it's helpful to us designer-types as well. Long story short: "You want to be brain googled. ... use your portfolio to make a mark on that person and their visual memory." Read more here.

Portfolio Workshop This Wednesday!

If you attended our SPD-U event last Monday, we addressed a question about how to choose pieces for your portfolio. While we did our best to answer the question there, we've got another event this Wednesday that is made just for that question: our Portfolio Workshop.

Bring us your printouts and tearsheets, your class projects and the stuff you make for your friends ... bring it all in one big pile, and we'll help you choose the best pieces and figure out the right way to organize it. Even if you think you've got your portfolio done, bring it along as well as any extra pieces and get our experts' opinions. Sign up now!

Portfolio Reviews March 24

Yeah, you just handed in your Student Design Competition entry and you've already signed up for our SPD-U event next Monday the 15th, not to mention your classwork and stuff. (You're thinking about that Nikon camera and the Eddie Adams workshop too, right? No sleep, all the glory, right?) Yeah, we know, there's lots going on. Well, one more thing to add to your calendar: our March (Design) Madness continues on March 24th with our Portfolio event. Find out the details after the jump...… MORE

Registration Closed for Portfolio Workshop

Thanks to everyone who's coming ... see you soon!

Portfolio Workshop RSVP Deadline: 4pm

At 4pm today we're closing registration for tonight's Portfolio Workshop, so RSVP NOW! And remember, if you're a Student Member, the event is FREE. And it's going to be awesome. Details here.

Students, Please Take Out Your Books and...

...bring 'em to our Portfolio Workshop!

Want to break into magazine design but don't have any publication work in your book? Or maybe you don't even have a book and it's just a pile of printouts. Whatever your portfolio's state, you should come to the first-ever SPD PORTFOLIO WORKSHOP.

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