Do you remember who taught you how to put together your very first resume? Who was it who took your paltry experience as a waiter at the diner down the street and combined it with your moderately good grades from that state school you attended to try to show a professional that you were oh-so-employable? For me, it was Peter, the slightly-younger-than-middle-aged professor who taught our co-op prep class and was also responsible for helping us get our first co-op jobs. He had a few simple rules: never put 'resume' at the top of your resume (it's stating the obvious), keep it to one page, list education before experience. For a sophomore in college with a very short resume, these were all exceedingly good tips. And I still occasionally scoff when I see resumes that break these rules (five pages? really!?) But the reality for designers is that your portfolio, your work, matters much more than your resume. So while I've made five or six portfolios since Peter's ...