Tobias van Schneider

Hi, I'm Tobias, a German designer living in New York. I'm the author of this blog, nice to meet you!

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30 Mar 2018 • 4 min read

How to build a design portfolio as a student

Building a portfolio as a student or young designer is a catch-22: A portfolio is all about showing your design experience, but to have experience you first need a job.

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27 Mar 2018 • 11 min read

Design in Vietnam 🇻🇳 featuring Rice Creative

With this latest interview in our Design Around the World series, we're looking at design in Vietnam with Rice Creative design studio.

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20 Mar 2018 • 3 min read

The NYC Apartment Hunting Cheat Sheet

This is adapted from my book, Let’s Go to NYC, a comprehensive guide for those planning a move to NYC from outside the States.

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14 Mar 2018 • 11 min read

How to Get a Job at InVision

If you're a designer, you probably use InVision. If you don't, you probably should. The platform allows you to share your work visually, communicate and collaborate more efficiently and better manage your workflow. It basically simplifies your entire project.

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7 Mar 2018 • 7 min read

15 ways to quickly refresh your portfolio

If you’re like many of designers, you’ve had every intention of updating your design portfolio — for the last two years at least. But procrastinating on your portfolio is a mistake. You never know what opportunities you could be missing out on because someone landed on your site and thinks you gave

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2 Mar 2018 • 8 min read

Design in Singapore 🇸🇬 featuring Foreign Policy

With this latest addition to our Design Around the World series, meet Foreign Policy in Singapore.

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26 Feb 2018 • 5 min read

How to write project case studies for your portfolio

Writing case studies might be the most dreaded part of building a design portfolio. After all the work and time it takes curating projects, designing pages, saving out images, etc., who wants to actually sit down and EXPLAIN it all? But next to your About page, case studies are the most important pa

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22 Feb 2018 • 1 min read

The truth about design titles

Research suggests we made up 90% of today’s design job titles within the past five years. As they say: Every time Mark Zuckerberg sneezes, a new design title is announced somewhere in Silicon Valley.

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