Monday, October 18, 2010

Typography - Resumes

Assignment: Give your resume a make-over.

One of the more practical projects that is being assigned is to do a resume. I've got the before and after shots of my resumes here. Before my alignment was all over the place. I had rules for them, but there were so many different lines they snap to that none of them had much gravity to it. I also removed and combined my high school extra-curricular activities. It's really hard to part with them, I was really active and involved in HS, but my teachers are right, your resume is a rolling 4 year list, I'll ditch them soon. :(  I feel like my new version is much more readable and clean. The images also help because my employers barely even glance at our resumes, they move straight to the portfolios. If the portfolios suck, the resume never gets read. The logos can get across more information in the .5 seconds I have.

Before:

After:

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