Portfolio Evaluation: The Aftermath Part I

This weekend was the portfolio evaluation and I surprisingly felt pretty calm as I left my house that morning. I felt pretty good about my work and apparently it is normal not to feel completely proud of your portfolio. We're reading a book that Stefan Sagmeister wrote and in it he explains how most designers hate the pieces that are inside their portfolio so that made me feel a little better! So, when I got to the Eisner Museum in Milwaukee, I realized I was in the group where we had a lecture and a couple of studio tours in the morning first and then had portfolio evaluations in the afternoon.

So we're all sitting in the auditorium and this guy starts telling us how he used to be one of the professionals critiquing everyones' portfolios but they asked him to step down and give a lecture instead because he made too many people cry in the past years... Awesome. So he starts to give his presentation and none of us are impressed. Every image he had pulled up on the screen was pixelated and he kind of gave the lecture as if he didn't care at all. He kept on saying how when he got his job, he was only lucky and that probably won't happen for us. It wasn't much of an enthusiastic lecture at all, more than anything it put us back in the dumps about going out in the world and finding jobs. The only thing that I found amusing was one clip that he showed about finding jobs and here it is...

How TO Get a Job - The top video clips of the week are here