Today we were down at Chelsea Market grabbing some lunch and checking out our NYCMate costumes dancing around the streets and we couldn’t help but notice the Vena Cava fashion show that was just ending.

Appropriately enough, I’m just reading about Hipstamatic...

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As we’re interviewing designers for our ever expanding team, Danika and I seem to come across the same thing time and time again - bad portfolios. Especially - bad student portfolios. The first thing I look at when someone e-mail’s their resume is their work. Its the most important factor for me when looking at a candidate. For a student fresh out of design school, I can appreciate various levels or experience and recognize when someone has potential. But if I can’t see their work, I can’t see their work.

When I was in design school one of the only web or interaction design class I had was an online portfolio class, where the teachers encouraged students to make a “creative” brand to pitch themselves online, and to build the whole site themselves. This often produced ill coded flash based...

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