Typography and Resume

This week I read the book Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams (not the actor). I was amazed at how much I really knew nothing about design. She goes through some basic design principles with the acronym CRAP ... Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. She also soes through some basic typography principles. I never realized how much lining things up, and using two different styles of typography on a page could really bring out the design.

So after reading this book online through BYU's databases (great resource for anyone with a byu route-y id), I decided to try and revamp my resume, that was in pretty dire need. This is my old resume:



While I feel like it was decent, I online used one font (Garamond) for headings and body text, I centered each of the dividing lines, making it so that they didn't line up with the body text, and used little if anything to distringuish between headings and body text (just slightly bigger and bolder). So to change it, I decided to line things up better, use a different font for body and headings, and make more contrast between my headings and body text (as well as trim down the actual content). I was pretty happy with how the design came out:




I still want to add a black and white head shot below my name, but other than that I think I'm ready to go job searching (well, actually give this resume to one place already interested in me). I'm excited to see how else I can put my little bit of design knowledge to use!