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As part of our new Community section, AIGA will feature articles written by our membership.
Get Review-Ready: Maximize Your Portfolio Review Experience
As thousands of design students prepare for their portfolio reviews, there’s going to be a lot of printing, color tweaking, reprinting, kerning, ligature insertion, paper trimming, accidental finger cutting, spray gluing and overall project perfecting going on.
That’s the obvious stuff. But having a truly productive portfolio review is about more than just showing up with an über-polished body of work.
Plan to actively participate in the process, and you can have an experience that will give you a leg up over the students who simply plan to show up and let the reviewers do all the work.
Legalities 34: What can you do when your work is copied online?
Recently, the graphic design community was shocked to discover that thousands of logos had been copied (often with minor modifications) and offered for sale on Logogarden.com. Linda Joy explains how to enforce your rights (or your clients’ rights) when someone posts copies of your work for sale online.
Legalities 5: Some Questions About Fair Use
In the latest Legalities, Linda Joy answers two reader questions related to including copyrighted work in your portfolio or in works of art. Read the article and join in on the discussion. This is an on-going series on legal issues that may affect graphic designers, illustrators and artists.
