I went to somthing called Reality Check this weekend, which is a portfolio review for graphic design students by professionals. I had gone as a student and now it was time to go as a professional. It was a blast. I looked over 10-15 portfolios over about a 2 1/2 hour period and gave the students feedback; most of which was constructive.
There were only a couple that I thought were generally bad (basically desktop publishing quality) from a professional design point of view. I was still able to offer some tips and such. There were several that were at the last stage before professionalism, which are tiny little details you miss when you're too close to the work or lost in the sea of school.
Two, both women, had great typographic skills.
My friend Becky, a second year at the school I went to, used me as her first interview to warm up, which was fine. I met a super-hot girl who looks a lot like the character Alex, from Lost. She was one of the best designers I saw, oh by the way, and probably has a bright future ahead of her. We shared a lot of likes regarding both type and comp. Oh, sure, a hot girlfriend who shares my crazy kind of creativity would be too much for the world to absorb, so forces are probably already at work to make us "great friends, I love you like a brother."
There were a few common elements in a lot of the portfolios. One little section not given as much attention as the others (usually headers/footers or address blocks). The use of a too common type (like Copperplate gothic or even one that used Arial). Not lining column text up (using the quite easy and useful Baseline Grid in InDesign, which, amazingly, at least 5 students had never heard of). Using low res images.
I didn't see hardly any drop shadows, which was cool, and only two black/red/white combo (the super-color combo of starting designers); of them, only one put red text on black, which is basically putting the second darkest color on the darkest one. There was a lot of white text, most of which was too small or too thin.
Overall, though, encouraging and a lot of fun.
The rest of the weekend was Double Dare, a great documentary on stunt women, including the yummy Zoe Bell, then a viewing of Kill Bill 1; featuring the yummy Zoe Bell.
Sunday I watched a Dutch war movie with Inga, then we went to Daniel's broiler and I got, I swear to God, about a 3lb Prime Rib. Holy Shit was it big and awesome. Probably one of the top ten cuts of meat I've ever had. The other 9 are Coeper's Five O'Clock club in Miluakee (a word that always looks mispelled, especially when it actually is, like now), of course. I'm having some sweet ass left over rib sandwiches for lunch this week.
Simpsons, Family Guy (she's been scraped more times than a fisherman's knuckles), SG, and bed, to dream about my hottie designer future girlfriend.
Oh, and I wore my cool black SG longsleeve at the portfolio review. One guy asked me about it. Perv.
There were only a couple that I thought were generally bad (basically desktop publishing quality) from a professional design point of view. I was still able to offer some tips and such. There were several that were at the last stage before professionalism, which are tiny little details you miss when you're too close to the work or lost in the sea of school.
Two, both women, had great typographic skills.
My friend Becky, a second year at the school I went to, used me as her first interview to warm up, which was fine. I met a super-hot girl who looks a lot like the character Alex, from Lost. She was one of the best designers I saw, oh by the way, and probably has a bright future ahead of her. We shared a lot of likes regarding both type and comp. Oh, sure, a hot girlfriend who shares my crazy kind of creativity would be too much for the world to absorb, so forces are probably already at work to make us "great friends, I love you like a brother."
There were a few common elements in a lot of the portfolios. One little section not given as much attention as the others (usually headers/footers or address blocks). The use of a too common type (like Copperplate gothic or even one that used Arial). Not lining column text up (using the quite easy and useful Baseline Grid in InDesign, which, amazingly, at least 5 students had never heard of). Using low res images.
I didn't see hardly any drop shadows, which was cool, and only two black/red/white combo (the super-color combo of starting designers); of them, only one put red text on black, which is basically putting the second darkest color on the darkest one. There was a lot of white text, most of which was too small or too thin.
Overall, though, encouraging and a lot of fun.
The rest of the weekend was Double Dare, a great documentary on stunt women, including the yummy Zoe Bell, then a viewing of Kill Bill 1; featuring the yummy Zoe Bell.
Sunday I watched a Dutch war movie with Inga, then we went to Daniel's broiler and I got, I swear to God, about a 3lb Prime Rib. Holy Shit was it big and awesome. Probably one of the top ten cuts of meat I've ever had. The other 9 are Coeper's Five O'Clock club in Miluakee (a word that always looks mispelled, especially when it actually is, like now), of course. I'm having some sweet ass left over rib sandwiches for lunch this week.
Simpsons, Family Guy (she's been scraped more times than a fisherman's knuckles), SG, and bed, to dream about my hottie designer future girlfriend.
Oh, and I wore my cool black SG longsleeve at the portfolio review. One guy asked me about it. Perv.
messyjessy:
It was good debating with you 
You seem like an honest thoughtful guy.
You seem like an honest thoughtful guy.