Portfolio Review Breakout Sessionss
The Following breakout sessions will be held throughout the four time slots during the Portfolio Review. See the Portfolio Review event page for schedule and registration.
Networking:
how to find a job by getting to know people
Sunny Nixon // Roetzel & Andres
Get practical guidance on how networking can help you find a job and break into the design community. Sunny provides specific resources and practical suggestions for the new graduate, including how to navigate local organizations, meet the right people, and even how to dress for your first interview.
From HOW to now:
a journey through jobs in the design world
Amy D. Hawk // Senior Art Director, Malone Advertising,
and previous Art Director for HOW Magazine
Join Amy on her path from student to small design studio to senior art director at a 200+ employee retail advertising firm. She will share her experiences, design work (including her very first portfolio) and help guide you through the decisions you need to make as you enter the design world.
Internet and Interactive Design and Marketing, and how to make yourself marketable
Laurie Demchak // Account Director, Aquent
In today’s design world, not only do you need a presence on the web, but you need to know how to give your clients a presence there too. In this session, we will discuss the importance of personal websites, social networking on the web, and learning skills in interactive design and marketing.
What every designer needs to know about marketing
Jason Therrien // President and Founder of thunder::tech
As an integrated marketing agency in Cleveland, thunder::tech weaves together designers, marketers, programmers, PR and advertising specialists into one agency for their clients. Therrien discusses what graduates should know about how to function in the growlingly complex fields of creativity, which value and employ skills above and beyond design.
Achieve your best print product every time you go to production
(Hint: it’s not just about the art files)
Genie Repros, Inc
You’ve worked three days and four nights straight on a masterpiece. Now it’s time to go to production. Do you cross your fingers and hope for the best or are you confident you’ll receive exactly what you spec’d? Achieving your best printed product for the best price is often an outcome of the collaboration between you and your print partner. This session will cover the various types of print, the companies that offer those products and the service levels you can expect from each of them. We will present case histories of designer & printer working in collaboration and how that relationship affects product quality.
Working at a greeting card company and not designing greeting cards
Joe Joyce // American Greetings
Opportunities for designers are shifting and multiplying, and they’re not all in typical places doing typical design jobs. Joe Joyce, Art Director of AG Interactive, talks about the little-known, challenging and unexpected jobs that designers should consider during their job search.