Portfolio's/Presentaion Folders?
M Brandt Designs (19 points) | Mon, 2009-09-28 22:21Hello all, I am new to this site and so far it is great. For the last 4 years I have been in-house with a company, and slacked on my portfolio. Well with our lovely economy I am now looking for a new place to call home. Time to buy a new portfolio case, so my question is what is everybody using? I have been looking online and they all start to look the same after awhile, so just thought I would see what everybody is using these days.
Thanks, Matt
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Read these:
http://creativebits.org/toolbox/7_tips_good_portfolio
http://creativebits.org/portfolio_0
http://creativebits.org/best_option_for_printing_a3_photography_portfolio
http://creativebits.org/sizing_portfoliobook
You may find some pointers.
I think your best bet is to create a porti online.
Thanks I will check these out, I am building a site now but some employers still like to see a book.
It's handy to have a small (physical) portfolio of your printed work.
Seeing it online, or on a screen is great and economical, but allowing a potential client to flip through, view and actually touch your work (business cards, brochures, etc.) takes presentation to another level.
I have a 14x14 inch portfolio that I made from a scrapbook. It's the kind that you can disassemble at the spine and add pages, rearrange them, etc. It has a bit of everything in it and clients love flipping through, taking out the pieces and handling them. It also gives them a sense of what I can do and provides them with a bit of confidence in working with me.
Anyway, I think the cover had flowers and crap printed on it originally, so I recovered it with some handmade, textured gray paper using spray adhesive and an x-acto knife. I use those plastic self-sticking photo corners to hold the pieces in-place on the pages, so they can be easily removed.
Works for me and I've been using it for years.
Another thing I have in my book, that clients really dig, is a few 4-page spreads that show a project from original, pencil sketch (that folds out to the left) all the way to finished product (that folds out to the right). This also gives the potential client a sense of the design process. That it involves a bit more than a few clicks of the mouse.
Hope this helps.
Terrell Thornhill
e-zign Design Group
My portfolio is a train wreck. It's one of those leather notebook type things with plastic covered pages where you slip stuff in from the side. It only holds letter-sized objects. Gave up my super nice big zip thing with mounted pieces on boards years ago - too unwieldy. This notebook thing is easy to carry and pass around a conference table - that's why I switched. Problem is I hardly ever have to show it, so it's never up to date.