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17 Responses to “Graphic Designers Portfolio”

1. rialittrell
   December 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm

   Thankss! It helps a lot!

2. youresotoughhh
   December 22nd, 2009 at 8:10 pm

   thank you

3. EgyptianKings6
   December 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm

   Hello, and thank you for the tid bits. I appreciate you taking your time to make these videos. It will be interesting to see how and where Graphic Design will be by the time I get my degree, but it is what I want to do.
   Tough times or not, companies will need to advertise. When that is slow there of course is the putting Uncle Lew’s head on a donkey and emailing it to everyone.

4. russiaaustralia
   December 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm

   Hello. Great videos. Really helpful.

   One question. Where can i get easy to folliow tips or instruction on how to create the back drop shadows (for example – Corporate Branding on the TM Media portfolio).

   If you can reply or anybody that knows that would be great. Thanks. David.

5. AliciaRae89
   December 22nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm

   boring but very important information that helped me, thanks!

6. BlissartSE
   December 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   Love your videos

7. jadehorizon
   December 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 pm

   Great advice, thank you for making these videos. They’re very appreciated.

8. polkacafe1
   December 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm

   I still agree with Tim. In the industry those CD covers don’t pay enough. Those jobs are few, and you’d have to chase them down for pay. There are other jobs that go to print very frequently and those are likely what they want to see. Print jobs for local productions with paying sponsors along the bottom.

9. polkacafe1
   December 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 pm

   I am very grateful to see these bits of advice on here. I’m a freelance Graphic Designer who is lucky to do design work while doing another job. I live in a small town where wages for design work is a drop in the bucket. That’s for the time being. But one day I’ll be able to provide my skills for a hardworking company like yours. Kind regards.

10. sonnakolb
    December 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    Thanks for the advice. It really made me think about the more practical side of graphic design. Sometimes its easy to get caught up in the “artsy” (hate that word) side of design, but in reality you need to focus on making a living. Especially in these tough times.

11. almklit
    December 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 am

    Tim is right to give advice as an employer – all designers know that design is subjective and most designers learn not to attack other designers work purely on this aspect, however there are industry standards to adhere to that will show your experience or not.

12. TheBurntToaster
    December 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 am

    when your at uni not all the work you do is things like you said you should have in your portfolio. my final work was to design a poster and magazine on a local festival. also we designed cd covers but the idea was to show that we know what image would fit in with that style of music.

13. artistled
    December 23rd, 2009 at 2:05 am

    Good or Bad as a designer Tim is right from an employer’s side point of view! Great tips!! Almost every employer I’ve encountered only wanted to see industry related work! Many of them were very shortsighted and reluctant to hire unless they actually can see physical proof of having designed for their kind of company, industry, clients, etc; And the interviewer was almost always some pseudo art director (ie. . CEO of a trucking company for instance) who thinks he knows design! LOL!

14. tmmediainc
    December 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Well lets see your work. Right now your all talk. So show us why we are so bad and your so wonderful. As far as my professionalism, you attack the integrity of my company, I’ll attack you right back. Show us your work, so we can learn from your world of knowledge.

15. cstlldwrd
    December 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 am

    Don’t make any assumptions, it doesn’t change the fact that you have poor quality work. I’m sure other would agree but it doesn’t seem like too many people have seen your little video here. The way you responded is very unprofessional, it was an honest opinion of someones work. I’ll be on my way, we have projects to work on.

16. cstlldwrd
    December 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 am

    You have the nerve to give advice, I took a look at tm media site and all the work was low quality, even your own company logo could use some help.

17. KevDesign32D
    December 23rd, 2009 at 4:48 am

    great inside info! add u to my list.