Making my Visual Resume

May 14, 2011 by AnaFxFz    2 Comments    Posted under: Creativity, Design, Digital Art, Freelancing

Yesterday I decided to finally design a visual version of my resume. Visual resumes are a huge trend nowadays, at least for those working in the design industry. I was inspired by THIS article that features 30+ resume designs, which made me realize how boring my traditional resume is.

I used Adobe Illustrator to design the swirls coming out of my right brain and the digital dial with the title “Visual Resume”. As for my head, it is a Photoshop manipulation combining pictures of my face and a digital transparent skeleton (stock image). The heart is also a stock image, which I photoshopped simply to remove the background. Everything else was created in Apple Keynote.

I am very picky about image resolution, so I did not export this design directly from Keynote into PDF format (which seriously compromises the resolution). I wanted to save it as image first, but in Keynote you do not have the same ability that you have in PowerPoint of controlling the ‘dpi’ settings of the exported images. Keynote simply exports the slides in the same resolution of the presentation, in this case 1024×768. After I exported the design as images, I opened a new document in Adobe InDesign and made a new PDF with the 1024×768 images. Boom, resolution looks great and the PDF has only 887KB.

You can download the high-res PDF version HERE.

If you have a visual resume or if you’ve seen great visual resumes on the web, please post a comment and share other designs like this one.