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Design for the Job You Want: Personal Projects to Build Your Portfolio

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Design for the Job You Want: Personal Projects to Build Your Portfolio

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About Design for the Job You Want: Personal Projects to Build Your Portfolio

Introduction

Your Class Project

Your Resources: Class Worksheets

Qualities of Good Portfolio Projects

Setting Intentions: Your Destination

Checking In With Yourself: You Are Here

Making Connections: Choose a Path

Work Agreement: Your World, Your Brief

Choosing Deliverables

The Audit: Finding Inspiration

REST STOP: Let’s Check In

Make the Dang Work: Thumbnailing

Make It Real: The Big Idea

Project Design: Your Elements

Level Up Your Mockups

Level 1: Make It Real

Level 2: Customizing Photos

Level 3: Messing Up Photoshop Mockups

Tell Me How to Feel

Creating Your Case Study

Bonus: The Trailer

Wrap Up

What You Will Learn?

  • In this class, you’ll learn how to create an effective portfolio project that helps you get to the next level in your career!.
  • You have the tools to follow your dreams, right now! We’ll focus on creating a personal portfolio project that connects you from your point A, where you currently are, to your point B, where you want to go. This class is designed to take you step by step through the process!.
  • Get ready for the road trip of a lifetime as you learn:.
  • This class is for any creative that can see where they want to be far off in the distance but has no idea how to get there, any artist who no longer sees themselves reflected in their work and anyone who is starting over in a new field and feels like a fish out of water. If you’re any kind of visual artist, and you have a vision, this is the class for you..
  • By the end of the class, you’ll not only have a new portfolio project that you’re proud of but a way to assess where you’re at and how to get to where you want to be whenever you feel stuck, bored, or discouraged with where you are in your career!.
  • So let’s get started - see you in class!.