Confession! 10 years in and i have never had a portfolio 🤷♂️
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Well i hacked the system. Was part of starting this: serious.business/blog/5-serious…
5 SERIOUS YEARS - SERIOUS.BUSINESS Blog
Only a few steps away from Poccistraße station, there is a beautiful and old mint green building, and in its third floor the SERIOUS.BUSINESS offices/party locations lay. It’s a small office, with an open floor plan, colorful posters and an inflatable unicorn head; outside a big terrace with fairy lights, a space that remains warm…
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And to be clear we had zero to no experience no internships, flashy portfolios or cool clients. We spend months getting rejected, laughed at, but we had perfect amount of naivity and Grit to make it work.
After my time there one job lead to the other and i always had a backup job with friends, previous clients etc.
oh whoa, this looks cool—love that domain 🤩 i'll give this a read later! but that's such a cool story; lol i feel like it's unheard of someone getting a design job without a portfolio heh. though i guess that just shows the power of networking and connections 😅