When writing about yourself 2929 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Aug 28, 08, 11:07 a.m.

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• jkmohr

  Specifically in your resume or portfolio site, do you refer to yourself as "he/she" or "I"? In other words, first or third person?

  Aug 28, 08, 11:07 a.m. – Permalink

• uncle_helv

  First person all day long!

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:08 a.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  Big Man

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:08 a.m. – Permalink

• francoisfido

  neither

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:08 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  you write like you're talking to someone about yourself. use "I"

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:08 a.m. – Permalink

• dirtydesign

  BAD MUTHA FUCKA

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:08 a.m. – Permalink

• Bam

  Definatly 'I', more personal. I think "he or she" makes your ego too big, especially when writing about yourself.

  • That's what I was thinking too.– jkmohr

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:09 a.m. – Permalink

• somatica

  Example:

  ... Thor then graduated from the Florida State in 2001 and went on to be hired at xyz agency in Miami. There Thor learned the real ins and outs of agency life...

  • Thor was the god of thunder for a brief period of time but felt a lack of challenge in that occupation– bolus1/2

    HAHA!– somatica2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:09 a.m. – Permalink

• Redmond

  First person. Third person would seem weird.

  "MARTIN REDMOND did this MARTIN REDMOND did that."
  -Martin Redmond

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:10 a.m. – Permalink

• nadnerb

  the royal we

  • That's one of my pet peeves. You see these design "studios" run by a single person who then writes "we"– jkmohr1/5

    Sometimes 'we' is good business strategy.. It was 'we at Car Design News' when the site was just me in my pyjamas...– ribit2/5

    The advertisers thought 'we' had a big office and employees and stuff.– ribit3/5

    But my friends just joked about my 'imaginary friends'...– ribit4/5

    plus it saved all that copy re-writing when we finally were multiple people...– ribit5/5

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink

• search

  refer to yourself as we.

  • but only if you are portraying a company, not a person, of course.– ribit

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink

• francoisfido

  second-person

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:12 a.m. – Permalink

• chrisRG

  I, always.
  Unless I clone myself.

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:13 a.m. – Permalink

• Soler

  I

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:15 a.m. – Permalink

• somatica

  Use your QBN name and reference specific threads where you learned a thing or two about design. Might I suggest using "The Official NSFW" thread for starters.

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:15 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  On a sidenote, this reminds me the not-so-long-ago era of freelancers masquerading as full blown studios and referring to themselves in third person, talking about all kinds of people that work with them, when it was really just them.

  • (edits "about us" section of portfolio)– somatica1/3

    Funny, I didn't see this before I posted that one note. Basically said the same thing.– jkmohr2/3

    actually, they were all just freelancer– mikotondria33/3

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:16 a.m. – Permalink

• jkmohr

  Perfect, thanks guys. Good to know I can come here and get some actual answers rather than lolcats.

  • Not that there's anything wrong with them...– jkmohr

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:18 a.m. – Permalink

• MSTRPLN

  refer to yourself as "we"

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:18 a.m. – Permalink

• Koopsy

  I don't say 'he' or 'I', I say 'ME', like a caveman, and I miss out words of only two letters or less.

  And always use the present tense.

  • Me like this way.– Koopsy

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:43 a.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  sometimes i think that the shit that happens to me i could not come up with... my life is better than fiction

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:45 a.m. – Permalink

• Antonelli

  http://profile.myspace.com/index…

  

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  Dog-earAug 28, 08, 11:48 a.m. – Permalink