FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SESSIONS ONLINE SCHOOLS OF ART AND DESIGN LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE SERIES OF GUIDES TO HELP VISUAL DESIGN STUDENTS COMPETE FOR JOBS AND CLIENTS

Make Your Portfolio Pop™ provides insider guidance from panel of successful designers

New York - February 20, 2007 - Building an ever-evolving professional portfolio is fundamental to getting work in the design industry. But how do you craft a professional-level presentation of work when you're still learning the ropes?

Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design ("Sessions") has responded to this and other challenges identified through the members of DesignSessions™, its industry-leading online community for design students.

Make Your Portfolio POP™ delivers insider guidance from nine successful designers who are Sessions design instructors. The colorful fourteen-page guide is packed with tips and insights that help visual designers avoid the pitfalls that can undermine the presentation of their work. The guide gives both experienced and fledgling designers the knowledge to select and skillfully present their work to get the jobs or clients they really want.

Free to all, this guide provides unique perspectives on how successful visual designers make their work stand out and win clients or employment.

Designers featured in this guide are: Jordon Schranz, Stephen Voss, Piper Nilsson, David Witt, Chris Georgenes, Laura Schwamb, Gabriela Monroy, Thom McKenna, and Nathaniel Stein.

This guide is the first in a series of six free guides that will be available soon.  Soon to be released are:  Make Your Photographs POP™, Make Your Web Sites POP™, Make Your Branding Work ™, Make Your Layouts POP™, and Make Your Animations POP™.

To request a copy of Sessions Make Your Portfolio POP™ guide, click here:
http://www.sessions.edu/reg/forms/indexform1c.asp?press_release

Members of the press may request a copy by emailing:

Scott Chappell
scott@sessions.edu
(212) 239-3080 ext. 14

About Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design (www.sessions.edu)
Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design offer courses and certificate programs in graphic design, Web design, multimedia, business marketing design, and digital arts.

Sessions was founded in 1997 with the goal of bringing new media design education to graphic and Web designers worldwide, through online education.

Once a pioneer and now a leader in the distance education industry, Sessions has delivered tens of thousands of courses to students in over 100 countries. Sessions is accredited by the Distance Education Training Council (www.DETC.org) and the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools (MSCSS) and is the first of only two online schools licensed by the New York State Department of Education.

For more information about Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design, visit www.sessions.edu.

For more information contact:

Scott Chappell
scott@sessions.edu
(212) 239-3080 ext. 14