Comments on: Livin’ La Vitae Logo http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/07/06/livin-la-vitae-logo/ Trauman's Blog: Writing. Reading. Technology. Book History. Book Future. Digital Scholarship. Blogging. Teaching. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Trauman http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/07/06/livin-la-vitae-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-14795 Trauman Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:30:14 +0000 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/?p=1530#comment-14795 Hah! That's awesome, Mike. The juxtapositions continue! Ricky Martin. Academic job search. And now Wheelock's text book! Thanks for the comment. (And no, I haven't forgotten about your last, thoughtful comment on my future-of-the-book musings. Gearing up to repond to that one as thoroughly as I can.) Hah! That’s awesome, Mike. The juxtapositions continue! Ricky Martin. Academic job search. And now Wheelock’s text book! Thanks for the comment. (And no, I haven’t forgotten about your last, thoughtful comment on my future-of-the-book musings. Gearing up to repond to that one as thoroughly as I can.)

]]> By: Mike http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/07/06/livin-la-vitae-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-14785 Mike Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:19:04 +0000 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/?p=1530#comment-14785 Attend to the Latin. "Vitae" is genitive; "of life," so "Curriculum Vitae" = "course of life" but when you talk about the life in the nominative (as in "the crazy life"), it's "vita," just as characterizing "sending out your <em>vita</em>" is "sending out your life" is shorthand for "sending out your <em>curriculum vitae</em>": "vita" takes the nominative place of "curriculum." Attend to the Latin. “Vitae” is genitive; “of life,” so “Curriculum Vitae” = “course of life” but when you talk about the life in the nominative (as in “the crazy life”), it’s “vita,” just as characterizing “sending out your vita” is “sending out your life” is shorthand for “sending out your curriculum vitae“: “vita” takes the nominative place of “curriculum.”

]]> By: cheryl http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/07/06/livin-la-vitae-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-14779 cheryl Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:44:43 +0000 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/?p=1530#comment-14779 I had a logo when I went on the market. It was important to me in a time when few people even had online portfolios, and I needed to distinguish myself as someone who did "new media" stuff as well as writing. Now, if a market-eer didn't have an online portfolio (in our field), I'd be highly suspect. You don't necessarily need a logo anymore (generally speaking) because your overall design will speak your brand for you. This blog, for instance, has a very clean, clearly organized feel that I think speaks a lot about who you are as a person and a scholar. (Yer very clean, eh, Trauman! lol). re the school's logo: Don't Do It. Only use it on the letterhead of your cover letter, not on your portfolio. You'll only have to change it immediately once you get a job, and grad students are in the weird in-between position of being representations of their programs while also not representing their programs. Using the UofL logo on yer stuff will look super-smarmy. (Except your cover letter.) Whatever you do with your portfolio, make it in the database so you can change it endlessly after you get a job. Use this same blog as your portfolio, even. Just clean up the old comps-answers stuff and move the Pages to the top, if you do. :) my two cents, c I had a logo when I went on the market. It was important to me in a time when few people even had online portfolios, and I needed to distinguish myself as someone who did “new media” stuff as well as writing. Now, if a market-eer didn’t have an online portfolio (in our field), I’d be highly suspect. You don’t necessarily need a logo anymore (generally speaking) because your overall design will speak your brand for you. This blog, for instance, has a very clean, clearly organized feel that I think speaks a lot about who you are as a person and a scholar. (Yer very clean, eh, Trauman! lol).

re the school’s logo: Don’t Do It. Only use it on the letterhead of your cover letter, not on your portfolio. You’ll only have to change it immediately once you get a job, and grad students are in the weird in-between position of being representations of their programs while also not representing their programs. Using the UofL logo on yer stuff will look super-smarmy. (Except your cover letter.)

Whatever you do with your portfolio, make it in the database so you can change it endlessly after you get a job. Use this same blog as your portfolio, even. Just clean up the old comps-answers stuff and move the Pages to the top, if you do. :)

my two cents,
c

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