What not to put in your portfolio

There's a great post on The Big Orange Slide today entitled What Not To Put In Your Portfolio. It's short, to the point and broken up by craft: Copywriter, Art Director and Developer. Jacob wraps it up nicely with his overall comments.

Here's the top line. Click through for the full article.

For Copywriters – by Leilah Ambrose

Proofread

Show elasticity

Assess your WTF quotient

Don’t Tolstoy your work

For Art Directors – by Colin Craig

Have a portfolio website

Keep it professional

Be a chameleon 

Overall – by Jacoub Bondre

Show attention to detail

Be honest

Show me the money

Click here for What Not To Put In Your Portfolio.

Leap from student to agency creative can be difficult

There's a great article posted on The Big Orange Slide about making the leap from student to agency creative. Written by Grip Ltd. intern Beau Turner, the insightful article offers up some great tips for making the whole transition a bit more seamless.

Click here for "Your book isn't the worst they've seen"

As an aside, have you checked out Grip's new website? It's easily the best agency website I've seen in a long time. It recently picked up an FWA award. For anyone who was in class for Jacob Bondre's talk - an FWA is a pretty big deal in the web world.