brilliant or stupid?

curriculum vitaes on web design ledger

way back in the day when i first went to look for a web design job, i put it together in quark and implemented gill sans (it wasn’t that popular back then, believe it or not) on cream-colored 60lb paper. i added a few horizontal rules along the top- and right-hand sides and thought it looked like just the right amount of “not done in word.”

i don’t love most of these examples, but they are food for thought. what would my resume look like now? would i use a visual metaphor? would it contain photos? would i mention that i can’t be found on facebook? would i print it on some funky paper? how would i design my online CV?