Guest Speaker at our office

Justin Ahrens of rule29 visited our office on October 4. Jason Robinson met him at a past HOW Conference and kept in contact. Jason made arrangements for our company to bring Justin here, to Utah, and speak to us. He first spent the morning reviewing and critiquing every one's portfolio—best portfolio review I have ever witnessed. He had some excellent tips of dos and don’ts, plus excellent comments of the work itself.

I was last to go and by that time I thought,"Man, my book sucks! I wish I could redo it." It obviously needed some work in the presentation, but he was excited by the work and the accounts that I had worked on over the years and told me I needed to express that when presenting. It was an ego boost I needed, made me feel proud of my work.

I hope we can do more events like this, plus it would be great to bring in the other designers from our international offices too.