The Big Crit
The Big Crit is a portfolio review to take you to the next level.
Are you a designer who misses the thrill and support from co-workers, a creative director or art school crit sessions? Are you a solo designer who’s gotten into a rut and needs some inspiration and help?
Where are you in your journey?
Solopreneur seeking creative feedback
Working Designer who needs mid to senior level feedback
In House Designer starting your own freelance businesss
You need The Big Crit!
This intimate 90-minute virtual portfolio review session offers inspiring and useful feedback for you and a limited number of select peers. Design experts Tricia Okin and Linda Secondari will help motivate you to approach your design work with fresh eyes and a critical design perspective.
Your project
Before The Big Crit, you’ll hang your chosen in-progress design on the virtual gallery wall so Linda + Tricia can review and share meaningful critiques when we meet as a group. All designs are welcome—from book covers, to logos, to websites and applications.
No piece? No problem. We can give you a design prompt.
Come one, come all
Whether you’re a recent graduate building out your portfolio or a seasoned designer seeking out peer review, we guarantee you’ll walk away more confident and with a fresh perspective you can apply to your design and to your future work.
The experts
Tricia and Linda have worked with some of the biggest brands and names in digital and print media, NGOs and nonprofits, as well as education and healthcare (check out that logo train below). They have a combined 40+ years of design and art direction experience in digital, print, and human-centered design, art directing 40+ award winning book covers, digital experiences, applications, and design events.
With their rich backgrounds come experience of fostering mutual design critique and feedback through an established circle of designers who help them to continuously improve their work.
Linda and Tricia are known for creating a collaborative studio environment where they’ve mentored early designers and helped more senior creatives refine their perspective / vision / voice. They focus on making the critique process fun yet productive and open to all.
Now they’re bringing those same principles to your portfolio review sessions.
Launching mid April 2022
Contact us for more information!
FAQ
Who is The Big Crit for?
The Big Crit is for designers of all levels seeking to engage in portfolio critique and development. You’ll bring a piece for expert and peer group review and walk away with a newly inspired perspective you can apply to current and future work.
What You Get
90 minutes of expert and peer reviewed critique with actionable ideas you can take away with you. It will be you and 2 other participants (total: 3) in this intimate critique setting. Each person brings a project to the virtual pin-up for review.
What if I don’t have a project?
If you’re not currently working on a project, don’t sweat it. We’ll give you a design prompt to inspire a project for you to bring to the session.
What is a project?
Here’s what our wheelhouse is and here are types of projects we can help you critique in order for you to get the most advantage from our expertise:
Book / collateral design
Branding design
Identity design
Posters
Digital campaigns
Web site and application design
Interaction design
UX and UI design
Service design
What happens to my design project on the gallery wall after The Big Crit has ended?
We will archive all work on the gallery wall 10 days after each session of The Big Crit.
Contact
Drop us a line if you have any questions or are just plain interested in what The Big Crit is all about.