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Maximizing Your Relationship with a Graphic Design Mentor
Are you pursuing a graphic design career? Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer is your single source guide to the many, many options available to you. Being a successful creative professional...
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Graphic Design Portfolios: The New Online Resume
Building an online portfolio is possibly the most important step you can take in your graphic design career. Here at HOW, we decided it was time for a three-part HOW-to guide on graphic design...
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Podcast Episode 34 – The Design Portfolio of the Future
HOW Design Live is more than a professional conference. It’s an inspiration-packed, global creative gathering guaranteed to open your mind, fuel your soul and power your career. The 2017 HOW Design...
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11 Resume Designs with Slick Personal Branding
Here at HOW, our goal is to provide graphic designers of all skill levels with the resources to sharpen their talent. We also aim to assist our readers in perfecting their resume. A few years ago, we...
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UX Design Certificate Covers The Basics & Process
At the heart of any design project is the consideration of the user experience. Out of all the other factors for completing a design assignment, delivering a favorable user experience design is by far...
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Design Students: What Your Dream Company Wants You to Do Before You Graduate
Design students: Make a global impact with your design when you enter the HOW International Design Awards, the competition recognizing creative excellence around the world. We have some great prizes in...
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5 Ways to Make Your Graphic Designer Portfolio Stand Out
The graphic design portfolio is a crucial selling tool for career advancement. It reveals the breadth of your abilities and exposes your design thinking to a potential employer or client. Obviously,...
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5 Ways to Get Your Design CV Graduation-Ready
Design students—enter your student work in the HOW Promotion & Marketing Design Awards by April 10! All winners will see their work in print this Fall, and the Best of Show winner scores a free...
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How to Build a Design Portfolio (Early in Your Career)
by Alec McGuffey When you’re early in your design career and are starting to think about finding your first design job or freelancing client, one of the most important things in your arsenal is your...
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How to Protect Your Work with Digital Watermarks
[Call for Entries: The HOW International Design Awards] If your design work is out there on the internet, everybody can see it—or steal it. But fear not, for the digital watermark can save you! Stamp...
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Get Rid of Your Portfolio Today and Replace it With This
Have you noticed that it’s just not enough anymore to show good work? Not because every designer’s work is good–indeed it isn’t. Or even that the standard for good work has gotten higher. Indeed, it...
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How to Create Amazing Design Portfolio Projects
by Alec McGuffey If you’ve started learning design skills with the hopes of launching a career in the creative industry, you probably already know that your portfolio is the most important tool in your...
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Why Your Portfolio’s Not Getting You The Job You Want
Still don’t have the job you really want? The problem may be your portfolio. Tobias van Schneider, co-founder of Semplice, shares what could be wrong—and how to make it better. You built an online...
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Netiquette: 6 Steps to the Perfect Autobiography
Graphic designers speak best through images. As visual thinkers, the sketchbook, iPad and the screen are the best ways to get your thoughts across through shapes, type and color. But what about words,...
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