Advance Your Career as a Graphic Designer

From the fundamentals of resume writing and honing your interview skills to building and sharing your portfolio, learn skills that will accelerate your career as a graphic designer. Listen closely as successful designers offer sage advice to help you along the way.

• Create a resume and gain interview skills to land the job you want.
• Learn how to promote yourself and your work.
• Acquire insight and inspiration from successful working designers.

• Course 1: How to Get a Job in Design
• Bonnie Siegler provides answers to designer's common questions about how to land a job. Learn how to write a winning resume, how to present yourself and your work, and more.
• Course 2: Managing Your Design Career
• Discover strategies that can help you, as a designer or creative professional, advance within a company, hone in on your next career move, and set yourself up for success.
• Course 3: Building an Online Portfolio
• Create a digital portfolio for your artwork, design, or photography. Learn how to build an online portfolio to market your creative services to clients around the globe.
• Course 4: LinkedIn for Designers
• Learn how to use LinkedIn to grow your design business. Post your credentials, showcase your work, find jobs, and connect with colleagues and clients.
• Course 5: Running a Design Business: Self Promotion
• Learn how to promote your design business. Discover the various ways to use self-promotion, both analog and digital, to stand out in today's competitive marketplace.
• Course 6: Bonnie Siegler: Designing Her Design Career
• In this documentary, learn about Bonnie Siegler—founder of design firms No. 17 and Eight and a Half—as she reflects on her career and what makes a breakout designer successful.
• Course 7: F2 Design: Letterpress Printing and Poster Design
• Watch Dirk Fowler, founder of F2 Design, design and print one of his evocative music posters, and explain the importance of making something by hand every day.
• Course 8: The Creative Spark: Von Glitschka, Illustrative Designer
• Von Glitschka shows us how to take our brains offline to find design inspiration through sketching and exploring the world around us.