This exit seminar for the Professional Program in Graphic Design helps you develop a professional graphic design portfolio to present to future clients as a freelancer and for employment in the profession. You will have the opportunity to showcase your unique style and strengths, improve your limitations and knowledge gaps by accelerating your design projects during this course for stronger outcomes.
You’ll research best fits in today’s design marketplace and create a self-branding package: logo, résumé, cover letter, reference sheet, business card, thank you card and its envelope, a promo video (scroll down to see Amanda Hinton’s creation) and an optional giveaway piece. The above mentioned pieces help you showcase who you are as a designer/person and the type of skills and strengths you possess to better position yourself for a new job, a freelance career or promotion. Guest speakers, alumni and industry professionals will share their stories, experiences and advice. We will pair you with industry professionals during the portfolio review, they’ll give you feedback about your projects and how to make them stronger and better. The main goal of this course is to improve the overall outcomes of your current projects, by tweaking, redesigning some of those existing projects and by adding new pieces if needed. Essentially you are putting together all graphic design skills you learned through our courses: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Visual Design, Web Design and Typography. By the end of the class, you would have a comprehensive graphic design portfolio website with at least 6 projects of multiple components that show your print and digital capabilities, you will be ready to apply for jobs while in the course, or right after finishing it.
Take a look at these amazing portfolio websites by Gita Adoni, Yuya Sano and Danielle McWaters, who decided to open her own freelance graphic design business called designsake studio before graduation. The three of them are former students of our graphic design program.
