BREAKING IN®: Over 100 Product Designers Reveal How to Build a Portfolio That Will Get You Hired

BREAKING IN® helps you build the portfolio you need to get the job you want. With advice from over 100 product design luminaries, BREAKING IN® gives you an unfair advantage over the rest.

• - Get specific advice from the exact people you want to work for.
• - Learn what Creative Directors are looking for in your portfolio.
• - Avoid the common traps that most portfolios fall into.

BREAKING IN® contains interviews with:

Yves Behar, fuseproject; 

Chris Bangle, Chris Bangle Associates; 

Ralph Gilles, Chrysler; 

Moray Callum, Ford; 

Neil Brooker, DesignworksUSA; 

Blaise Bertrand, IDEO; 

Jonas Damon, frog; 

Robert Brunner, Ammunition; 

Jason Mayden, Brand Jordan, Nike; 

Michael Young, Michael Young; 

Mike Simonian, Mike & Maaike; 

Kyle Swen, Astro Studios; 

Gadi Amit, NewDealDesign; 

Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group; 

Jonah Becker, HTC; 

Howard Nuk, Samsung North America; 

Dan Harden, Whipsaw; 

Sohrab Vossoughi, Ziba; 

Dick Powell, Seymourpowell; 

Michael DiTullo, DEI Holdings; 

Laurene Leon Boym, Boym Partners; 

Allan Chochinov, core77.com & SVA; 

Felicia Ferrone, fferrone design; 

Sigi Moeslinger & Masamichi Udagawa, Antenna; 

David Fellah, DesignIt; 

Paul Bradley, frog; 

Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti; 

Achim Badstuebner, Mercedes-Benz; 

Alberto Villarreal, Google; 

Gianfranco Zaccai, Continuum; 

Maarten Baas, Studio Maarten Baas; 

Klaus Tritschler, ICON Aircraft; 

Christopher Chapman, Hyundai; 

Max Burton, MATTER; 

Donald Strum, Michael Graves Design Group; 

Derek Jenkins, Mazda; 

Stuart Macey, Hyundai & Author of H Point; 

Stuart Karten, Karten Design; 

Ravi Sawhney, RKS Design; 

Brad Richards, Ford; 

Ernesto Quinteros, Johnson & Johnson; 

Nasahn Sheppard, REI; 

Todd Ellis, Puma; 

Ken Musgrave, Dell; 

Jerome Mage, Mage Design; 

Luca Casini, Luca Casini Design Studio; 

Branko Lukic, NONOBJECT; 

Klaus Rosburg, SONIC Design; 

Curt Bailey, Sundberg-Ferar; 

RitaSue Siegel, RitaSue Siegel Resources; 

Imre Molnar, College for Creative Studies; 

Bob Worrell, Worrell; 

Bodo Sperlein, Bodo Sperlein; 

Pip Tompkin, Pip Tompkin Design; 

Harm-Willem Hogenbirk & Marc Nagel, Pilotfish; 

Robert Arko, A+O; 

Edwin James, PSA Peugeot Citroen; 

Brian Ling, Design Sojourn; 

Andrew Deming & Rachel Gant, Yield Design; 

Chelsia Lau, Ford; 

Rhys Newman, HERE/Nokia; 

Bryon Fitzpatrick, College for Creative Studies; 

Bill Barranco, Autovision; 

Eric Chan, ECCO Design; 

Philip Leung, Altitude; 

Brian Stephens, Design Partners; 

Tylor Garland, Boombang; 

Marianne Grisdale, TEAMS Design; 

Paul Hatch, TEAMS Design; 

Roland Boal, Priestmangoode Design China; 

Mary Reid, Kohler; 

Michiel Knoppert, Dell; 

Myk Lum, LDA; 

Fritz Frenkler, f/p design; 

Christopher Benjamin, Chrysler; 

Adam Bazydlo, Ford; 

Mugendi M’Rithaa, Cape Peninsula University of Technology; 

Lindsay White Funk, Vans; 

Brian Kutsch, Lacoste; 

Todd Herlitz, Radio Flyer; 

Julie Heard, Mixer Design Group; 

Dr. Mark Breitenberg, Art Center; 

Anton Ljunggren, BioLite; 

Chris Zarlenga, Hyundai; 

Ronald Lewerissa, FLEX/the INNOVATIONLAB; 

Paul Backett, Evolve Collaborative; 

Demetrius Romanos, Targus; 

Rajat Shail, Honeywell; 

Matthew Paprocki, Goodhatch; 

Tom Matano, Academy of Art University; 

Gary Natsume, Magic Leap; 

Tjeerd Veenhoven, Studio Tjeerd Veenhoeven; 

Lambert Kamps, Lambert Kamps Art & Design; 

Craig Vogel, DAAP: University of Cincinnati; 

Jason Hill, Founder, Eleven; 

Alexander Pelikan, PeLiDesign; 

Thomas Degn, Umea Institute of Design; 

Kim Karlsrud, COMMONstudio; 

Matt Corrall, DNV GL; 

Leonardo Massarelli, Questto|No; 

Daniel Tomicic, Scuderia Zagreb; 

Cathy Karry, Art Center; 

Thornton Lothrop, Design Central; 

Anne Marie Boutin, APCI; and 

Pam Nyberg, Humana.