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Post by fcredblue on Jan 22, 2007 12:20:32 GMT -1
any help will be taken on board....
im setting up a portfolio and was wondering if anyone has made one before and has any idea of how to set one up in a very proffesional manner... iv goit a number of things to put in it and was wondering how to set it out...
any links or pointers would be great...thanks
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Post by Arnold on Jan 22, 2007 12:21:58 GMT -1
What sort of portfolio? I dont mean to prospective employers (thats obvious) but what line of work?
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Post by fcredblue on Jan 22, 2007 12:29:20 GMT -1
What sort of portfolio? I dont mean to prospective employers (thats obvious) but what line of work? mostly on design... aswell as advertising im doing it in A4 as i perviously had a school one in A3 and was a bloody annoying to get arround with and show off... basically iv had alot of experiance but i cant seem to get it across in interviews or on my CV because i dont want to seem a idiot and for them not to take me serious as the work that iv done i probberly wouldnt have been expected of me as iv havnt gone through the educational route... |
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Post by Teesside White on Jan 22, 2007 13:02:35 GMT -1
ive just done a photography portfolio, and im half way through doing a crime scene portfolio couldnt tell you how exactly to set them out cos ive never done a proper 1 before the ones im doing now but i think you shud just set ur work out in a tidy way, say what that piece of work is illstrating, write a kind of method and then evaluate it  |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jan 22, 2007 13:06:17 GMT -1
Essentially, you just need to put in any pieces of work that show off just how fantastic you are (maybe add a contents page or something like that) - any references you can include (even if it's just a certificate showing a relevant GCSE grade or something) would be useful too. It's worth considering putting your CV or a note explaining your portfolio briefly or something at the front too, though I don't know if that'd be beneficial or not in truth.
Your best bet, I'd think (could be wrong) would be to focus on work that shows your personal strengths particularly well, and then to include a few extra entries that show you can vary according to what's required. You'd also be best to go for quality over quantity - I guess I'd go for about 20 pieces altogether, though that number is admittedly just plucked out of the air (it just feels like a reasonable amount - they don't want to trawl through a hundred pages, but you want to leave a strong impression).
Don't be afraid to vary it according to who you're showing it to too - different people will be after different things, naturally!
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Post by fcredblue on Jan 22, 2007 13:30:18 GMT -1
Essentially, you just need to put in any pieces of work that show off just how fantastic you are (maybe add a contents page or something like that) - any references you can include (even if it's just a certificate showing a relevant GCSE grade or something) would be useful too. It's worth considering putting your CV or a note explaining your portfolio briefly or something at the front too, though I don't know if that'd be beneficial or not in truth. Your best bet, I'd think (could be wrong) would be to focus on work that shows your personal strengths particularly well, and then to include a few extra entries that show you can vary according to what's required. You'd also be best to go for quality over quantity - I guess I'd go for about 20 pieces altogether, though that number is admittedly just plucked out of the air (it just feels like a reasonable amount - they don't want to trawl through a hundred pages, but you want to leave a strong impression). Don't be afraid to vary it according to who you're showing it to too - different people will be after different things, naturally! well i want to show example of the work iv been doing even if its not related as i have done a varied about of work, btw i bought a hardback black portfolio with 20 slides and i can always say that there is plently more of my work, i was thinking of anotating everything aswell as parts and projects have been set for me to intergrate work into the company which explains how some of my work looks very much consistant and not as creative as i would like due to the type of company |
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Post by fcredblue on Jan 22, 2007 13:32:53 GMT -1
im not sure how to get over the examples of html that i have done...  |
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Post by Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox on Jan 22, 2007 14:09:01 GMT -1
This is pretty much right up my alley as i did a degree in Product Design and Marketing and currently work for an advertising company, i also have a portfolio although i've not updated it since i left Uni. You want to show how diverse you can be but also you need to underline what your strengths are too. I had a mixture in mine from technical drawings and sketch work concepts, rendered designs with markers, CAD, Rhino and Flamingo computer work as well as presentation boards from my 2 main final year projects.
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Post by fcredblue on Jan 22, 2007 17:12:41 GMT -1
This is pretty much right up my alley as i did a degree in Product Design and Marketing and currently work for an advertising company, i also have a portfolio although i've not updated it since i left Uni. You want to show how diverse you can be but also you need to underline what your strengths are too. I had a mixture in mine from technical drawings and sketch work concepts, rendered designs with markers, CAD, Rhino and Flamingo computer work as well as presentation boards from my 2 main final year projects. well i have a personal project which is using CAD and CAM in product design (I'm studying Auto CAD for a written qualification), two if you count a previous project without CAD or CAM tho i can update and create drawings for it, i have quite alot of work from my current employment which is very varied as well as other design work which hasn't been assigned and no particular purpose... theres another project which i could do, but this is in my own time, this would be a whole project that i could manage and say i did solely by myself... but this would be voluntary would it be benif me to do this off my own back and present as it could be another thing which i could say which was employment tho i wouldnt get paid for it? |
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Post by fcredblue on Jan 22, 2007 17:14:57 GMT -1
This is pretty much right up my alley as i did a degree in Product Design and Marketing and currently work for an advertising company, i also have a portfolio although i've not updated it since i left Uni. You want to show how diverse you can be but also you need to underline what your strengths are too. I had a mixture in mine from technical drawings and sketch work concepts, rendered designs with markers, CAD, Rhino and Flamingo computer work as well as presentation boards from my 2 main final year projects. PS any pointers which you could give me about your work would be really helpful as i work in marketing and design and would like to benift myself...thanks (im in london so i wont still your trade lol) |
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Post by Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox on Jan 27, 2007 16:16:51 GMT -1
This is pretty much right up my alley as i did a degree in Product Design and Marketing and currently work for an advertising company, i also have a portfolio although i've not updated it since i left Uni. You want to show how diverse you can be but also you need to underline what your strengths are too. I had a mixture in mine from technical drawings and sketch work concepts, rendered designs with markers, CAD, Rhino and Flamingo computer work as well as presentation boards from my 2 main final year projects. PS any pointers which you could give me about your work would be really helpful as i work in marketing and design and would like to benift myself...thanks (im in london so i wont still your trade lol) I'm much more a designer in truth but seeing as i'm currently in the advertising trade my skills have developed in this area. From a designers point of view, you need to think 'out of the box' mate. When your brainstorming, you got to think of things that are not out there on the market. Think about the problems people have and why and what you can do to solve it. One of my designs for example was a fruit and veg smoothie maker vending machine for kids at school to encourage healthy eating. Basicly it was for a competition and the brief was about obesity levels in britain and what could be done to combat it. I went for an Alien type figure and kids pressed the relevant buttons to make their smoothie and they saw the liquid flavours shoot around various clear pipes...it was cool. Then it deposited the drink in a special cup. Kids had fun using the machine whilst also becoming encoraged to consume a healthy product and they had the choice of flavours. It got to the final stages of the competition but did not end up in the top 3 unfortunatly. Still....its just an example of something i did. Try and identify your target markets where there is scope for something big potentially. I could probably write shit loads on things lol but thats enough for now. |
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