It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers, programmers, and architects only learn after putting in years of experience on the job. Michael Janda, owner of the Utah-based design firm Riser, uses humor to dispense nugget after nugget of hard-won advice collected over the last decade from the personal successes and failures he has faced running his own agency.

要想在创造性的职业生涯中取得成功，需要的不仅仅是设计学校的教育和杀手级的投资组合。Burn Your Portfolio教授大多数设计师、摄影师、网页设计师、文案撰稿人、程序员和建筑师只有在投入多年工作经验后才能学到的现实世界的实践、专业的应做和不应做以及不成文的商业规则。总部位于犹他州的设计公司Ripper的老板迈克尔·扬达（Michael Janda）用幽默的方式一个接一个地给出了他在过去十年中从经营自己的机构所面临的个人成功和失败中收集到的来之不易的建议。