YOU CAN'T MISS: Wrong photos and inspiring portfolios

You worked for hours, upon hours perfecting your design. You're so excited to pick up the design in print the next day, but on your way to class you read a Tweet that says: "Check out the embarrassing error in XYZ! Wrong photo on the front page! LOL!" Your heart stops and your stomach falls out. Sound familiar? I definitely know the feeling. During my time at the Maneater, the production process was obviously a lot shorter than VOX, so there was much less time to catch errors and fewer eyes saw the final pdfs before they went to print. More than once, I opened up the paper the next day to see that we had placed the same photo or the same story twice. It's obvious in print, but sometimes it's hard to catch when you're looking at 24+ proofs in the night. It happens to all of us though, including the United States Postal Service.

This week on the Media Unbeige blog, there was a post about the US Postal Service using the wrong photo of the Statue of Liberty.  They accidentally used a photo of the miniature statue in Las Vegas. Whoops. It's pretty hard to tell the difference, but obviously someone could tell. They decided to admit their mistake and just leave it and move on. Still, pretty embarrassing.




If you're like me, you're probably stressing over creating a portfolio website from scratch in Dreamweaver. Never fear! In case you're still searching for some inspiration, here's 90 Inspirational and Creative online portfolios. I really like the look of wood backgrounds (though I know others do not...) and want to create my portfolio site to look like a workspace with the main content on a notebook. I think the one below is pretty cool. Good luck dreamweaving this week!