The Portfolio Handbook - UCID 2012

The UCID Class of 2012, created this excellent portfolio handbook with the goal of guiding first year students in the process of building their first portfolios. It's superuseful for all students and young designers for advice on putting their portfolios together.

We planned, wrote, and styled the book over the course a 10-week summer quarter. It captures all the knowledge we've learned over the years about creating portfolios. This was a great opportunity for us to give back to the program that has given so much to us as designers. We wanted to help strengthen our design community at DAAP and in the process we ended up creating something that we want to share with the broader design community.

Grab the PDF download, and make a donation $5 donation to their graduation show.

Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Get Better

It's relevent to today's crit.

You don't have to toe the line and just, float with the flotsam...
The system might fail you, but don't fail yourself, just...
get better.

OK, so Thou shalt Always kill is a better intro to the wicked lyrics of this duo, but I'm posting "get better", which is more relevent today.

Stereotypes of Design Students

Above image is from a tongue in cheak appraisal of 21 art school student types: Which Student are you? by Chuck Dillon.

Also worth a look is:
Classmate designertypes (and what you can learn from them)
part of the incredibly useful (for design students) Hack2School on Core77