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How do you build a design portfolio with no experience?

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What do graphic design employers look for?

Why You Should Get on LinkedIn and How to Best Use It

The economy is gonna crash. Are you ready?

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Stay Focused on the Goal

Don’t expect a thank you

You have to get all the bad ideas out

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4 Things You Need to Constantly Do as a Designer

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Watch Mike Monteiro’s 13 Mistakes Designers Make video

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You should read The Non-Designer’s Design Book

"It's through mistakes that you can actually grow. You have to get bad in order to get good."

- Paula Scher

"Design is the intermediary between information and understanding."

- Hans Hofmann

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