Portfolio Building - Day 3
Format
Format
Is your portfolio going to be a physical book that you carry with you? Or is a digital portfolio better suited to represent yourself with?
Digital vs. Printed portfolio? Brian Ling of Design Sojourn had this to say:
"With the Internet becoming a standard means of communication, most portfolios are now sent through email. Not only that, more and more designers are presenting their portfolio work on their laptops, iPads and projectors. Don’t discount the paper portfolio though; the honesty and tangibility of the medium could be the winning factor that gets you your next design job.
My point is that it is important to design for the medium. In many cases, a layout for a printed portfolio will not work on a laptop screen or projector. There is a lot more real estate on paper than on a laptop/iPad screen. Paper also tends to be a more forgiving medium as well. A laptop screen’s allows for bright and vibrant images, but a computer screen is limited to so many pixels and zooming breaks the flow of the presentation."
Digital vs. Printed portfolio? Brian Ling of Design Sojourn had this to say:
"With the Internet becoming a standard means of communication, most portfolios are now sent through email. Not only that, more and more designers are presenting their portfolio work on their laptops, iPads and projectors. Don’t discount the paper portfolio though; the honesty and tangibility of the medium could be the winning factor that gets you your next design job.
My point is that it is important to design for the medium. In many cases, a layout for a printed portfolio will not work on a laptop screen or projector. There is a lot more real estate on paper than on a laptop/iPad screen. Paper also tends to be a more forgiving medium as well. A laptop screen’s allows for bright and vibrant images, but a computer screen is limited to so many pixels and zooming breaks the flow of the presentation."
Digital Don'ts (from davidairey.com)
- Poor navigation, using new tricks that impede viewing
- Using thumbnails that don’t show what the project is
- ‘Mystery meat’ squares that offer a ‘peek-a-boo’ game of surprises
- Not including a telephone number
- Hiding your email address
- No contact information of any kind
- Background music playing automatically
Together as a class, I want to spend some time at this fantastic resource page, that really sums up everything that we have studied in the last three days and really details some dos and don'ts for the paper portfolio: http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/how-to-make-an-art-portfolio-for-college-or-university
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