ari.: so my portfolio show reception is thursday night and it’s fancy and at...
so my portfolio show reception is thursday night and it’s fancy and at a museum and there’s gonna be art directors of different companies talking to us and ;laksdjf
- I have to get a new portfolio to put my work in
- and find business casual shoes since I have sneakers or 5+ inch heels and that’s about it
- and hopefully my blank business cards will come in today so I can make screen them tonight/tomorrow because I wasn’t about to pay a place to print them and have to get an obscene amount
- actually I should make a silk screen and get my printing area ready so I can just screen them as soon as I get them
Just putting this out there for ALL students.
- If you wanna be cheap, go Itoya. If you want quality, go Prat. Look for durability, and buy 2 in case you need to mail one or give it to a recruiter. You don’t need anything more complicated than that Prat, and any professor that tells you otherwise is full of it.
- Unless you’re going for a corporate job and nervous, a newish paid of jeans + fresh sneakers + a quality shirt & belt and you’re good. The day I switched from an uncomfortable suit to something I’m more used to wearing my offers went up dramatically. Confidence comes from being comfortable.
- If you can’t afford cheap cards (PSPrint, Overnight Prints, JakPrints) and do your own, try to mix a few “versions” in. 2-3 1-color cards, especially handing out multiple colors at once, looks cool.
- Never order a lot of cards. I’ve hardly ever gone through more than 150 before they look stale and boring to me.
- Clients like to see physical things. Employers don’t really care.
I’ll file that under “Things I wish I knew” when I was a fresh fish.
