Imagine you’re a hiring manager for a design agency. You’re looking for a junior designer that will bring a unique perspective to your team. You’ve pulled up the portfolio websites of a few different applicants and you are faced with a comparison: Designer A vs. Designer B. Both designers have great-looking work, but they present it differently. Designer A has big images and a one-sentence description of the project. Designer B has an in-depth description of the problem they were solving and the steps they took to solve it. You understand how Designer B thinks. You understand the purpose of…
Today’s college students are under increasing pressure to have a side hustle — a part-time job that is often related to entrepreneurship. 41% of workers under 35 already have a side hustle. Students today are six times more likely to start a business while in school than they were in the 1960s and 1970s.
Almost every college student could use extra income to offset the rising costs of education, but design students face additional pressures to establish an online creative presence and put real-world projects into their portfolios. …
Ever want to make a design like those great vintage travel postcards? Ever feel confused by clipping masks or adjustment layers in Photoshop? This tutorial should help. We’ll be making a design inspired by old-fashioned “Greetings from…” postcards. For this tutorial, you will need a computer and an Adobe Creative Cloud license. This tutorial assumes a very basic understanding of Photoshop, the kind you would get from Adobe’s free Photoshop Get Started course.
Jenny B Kowalski
Graphic & Interactive Designer, Assistant Professor of Instruction at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
