Channel Title: Dann Petty Channel Description: I'm a web designer trying to make a living in San Francisco. Pro Surfer (Web), Host of @epicurrence, http://Epicurrence.com + http://Montues.com , CD @uenodotco, Past: @LuxeValet @Medium @ycombinator <video> Watercard Presentations Description: </video> <video> [JOB OPP] Show the work you want to get. Try it - The North Face is hiring. Description: My first portfolio was all adventure related work. That's the work I wanted, so that's what I showed. Doing that helped me land my first dream job, helping redesign thenorthface.com when I got started. Oh look, twitter.com/thenorthface is hiring! 😉 Details on epicjobs.co + twitter.com/epicjobs </video> <video> Round 2 Portfolio Reviews - Scoring 0 -100. Description: </video> <video> How to make hand-drawn vectors for your web designs, fast. Description: In this video I go over how I drawn simple sketches, take photos of them (or scan them in), and turn them into vectors that I can use on my designs in Figma. </video> <video> You don't need a super fancy portfolio Description: Don't over think the design of your portfolio. Keep it simple like https://twitter.com/Creative_Curls by following the "hey what about me" layout. ☑️ "hey" - quick intro ☑️ "what" - showing your work ☑️ "about" - your story/offerings ☑️ "me" - your social links </video> <video> Why putting his health and family first is important (Greater than Avatars) Description: Greater than Avatars is a film series on the humans behind the avatars. We know their work, tweets, and avatars but we're so much more than that. We all have our struggles and things we deal with everyday -- those are the real things that make us who we are. In this film, Matt D. Smith, a freelance designer from Athens, GA, explains how he manages to keep his health and family a priority while still achieving more work than most in a strict 9-5 daily process. Find Matt online at: https://twitter.com/mds https://www.youtube.com/user/mattdsmth Directed, filmed, and edited by Dann Petty. In association with InVision. Check out http://www.greaterthanavatars.com for more info and be sure to snag some limited edition merch to help support more videos! </video> <video> What if portfolio designs were inspired by social media feeds? Description: </video> <video> I'm starting a newsletter—sign up! Description: Let's chat design, tech, freelance, and things. Sign up at http://www.dannpetty.com! Newsletter members will get: - Early previews, bts, and special deals on my upcoming books. - Design, freelance, and entrepreneurship tips/advice. - Exclusive interviews. - Epic job opportunities for designers, developers, managers, illustrators, photographers, videographers. - And lots more. </video> <video> That Portfolio Documentary Teaser Description: For the past 6 months, I’ve traveled across the country filming interviews with top industry leaders, capturing portfolio advice from everyone from independent designers, developers, photographers and illustrators to a wide range of big and small agencies/studios. I even stopped by to chat at companies like Lyft and many others to come like Facebook and Netflix. Featured in this teaser is Kristina Yamamoto, a freelance photographer in San Diego, CA https://www.instagram.com/kristinamoto/. I wanted to know exactly what they look for in a portfolio and why. We all know that the companies/clients hiring us are looking at hundreds of portfolios at any given time. How in the world are we going to stand out? How can we get their attention in the sea of portfolios out there? Don’t worry, we’ll cover all of that in this book. We’ll talk about how to think about your portfolio as a story, a plan, and a tool which, in return, will help you make it unique, or as I like to call it, authentic. in an effort to capture every single relevant nugget of information that I know will help you get a job using your portfolio. Not only did a write a book http://thatportfoliobook.com (which is officially available for pre-order starting today!) but I've also been filming a documentary—That Portfolio Documentary. If you pre-order the book today, you'll not only get first access to this documentary when it becomes fully available, but you'll also get it for free! Go check it out at http://thatportfoliobook.com and pre-order. About the book: That Portfolio Book™ is much more than a book. It's intended to be both book and course combined. Best of all, the book is alive! I'll constantly be adding new content over time. You're going to get 12+ chapters of text, audio, and video all online and packed with interviews and advice from leading professionals. Many portfolios look exactly the same and many other people can do the same work that you can, but they can’t tell your unique, authentic, individual story. Only you can do that. We’re all different and no matter our background, we all approach our work from our own unique perspective. Use that. Be different because we are all different. Remember this, people don't hire work, they hire people. Use your portfolio as your chance to stand out. The full book will be available this May. However, if you pre-order today you'll get access to the content as we add it in before the full launch. I can't wait to talk about portfolios with you! I hope this announcement finds you well and healthy out there wherever you are from. </video> <video> Why they work full-time and freelance (Greater than Avatars) Description: In this film, sister and brother designers Cymone and Cedric Wilder of freelance studio Simon and Moose http://www.simonandmoose.com/ talk about why they work 2 jobs, one full-time and one freelance, in order to keep growing and learning. Greater than Avatars is a film series on the humans behind the avatars. We know their work, tweets, and avatars but we're so much more than that. We all have our struggles and things we deal with everyday -- those are the real things that make us who we are. Find Simon and Moose online at: http://www.simonandmoose.com/ https://twitter.com/simonandmoose https://www.instagram.com/simonandmoose/ Directed, filmed, and edited by Dann Petty. In association with https://www.invisionapp.com/ Check out http://www.greaterthanavatars.com for more info and be sure to snag some limited edition merch to help support more videos! </video> <video> How to stand out when sharing your portfolio. Portfolio Reviews Round 3. Description: If you're sharing your portfolios to get work—watch this review. I scan through 100 portfolios to show you what it takes to make your portfolio links more click worthy to get the attention you deserve. Watch the end for my example on how to stand out. </video> <video> 5 Standout tools for freelancers to try Description: 1. Framer.com - build a website 2. Contra.com - business/portfolio 3. reMarkable 2 - notes/sketching 4. Whereby.com - branded video calls 5. ScreenFlow - walkthrough videos BTW I'm doing a partnership with Contra and they gave me a link to help you save some money and get early access to Contra Pro for just $1. Use this https://contra.com/pro/dann_petty to sign up. </video> <video> Bringing back the @DannPetty show? New Launches, Design News, Job Opportunties Description: I don't know -- got inspired and thought I'd film a new @DannPetty show. Should we bring it back? Sam Sheffer tweet https://twitter.com/samsheffer/status/1176480281781559296?s=20 Semplice Supply https://www.semplice.com/supply The Futur's new show We Can't Agree on a Direction – Design From Scratch, Ep. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGGUB_XlH8k Jobs https://epicjobs.co/snapchat/ https://epicjobs.co/axios/ https://epicjobs.co/medium-2/ https://epicjobs.co/twitter/ https://epicjobs.co/parsley-health/ </video> <video> Design Improv Class Presentations Description: </video> <video> Looking to improve your portfolio? WATCH THESE PORTFOLIO REVIEWS! Description: Looking to improve your portfolio? WATCH THESE PORTFOLIO REVIEWS I'll go over importance of: ✔️ grabbing attention with link ✔️ stop hiding work ✔️ show work upfront ✔️ clarity on service ✔️ showing your email ✔️ start case studies w/ image ✔️ + more Sponsored by @contra 🖤 Original Tweet Thread: https://twitter.com/DannPetty/status/1679167183211884545?s=20 </video>

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Pro Surfer (Web), Host of @epicurrence, http://Epicurrence.com + http://Montues.com , CD @uenodotco, Past: @LuxeValet @Medium @ycombinator

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