Objective: Create a unified and well-curated selection of at least five of your best design works, for use in a job or internship application. Your work may be from a college class or freelance, personal, or professional work.
This Long-Term Project (LTP) is scoped in our Google Calendar, with assets in Dropbox, and has multiple parts. Part I requires you to audit your design work, define a portfolio layout, and design that layout. Parts II & III are forthcoming.
Learning Outcomes:
- qualifying your "best" works
- preparing them for presentation
- designing a unified portfolio
- oral presentation of work
Process:
- look through your work:
- place five "best works" into Dropbox LTP folder
- if a website or app or other interactive design, place a screen capture there
- students will review a peer's work in class
- identify what best represents you and your understanding of design
- your chosen design work should be varied in your use of fonts, colors, and overall look & feel
- create a plan for organizing those works into a multi-page PDF portfolio, due see class calendar
- layout your portfolio as a PDF (first review see class calendar) revise and resubmit for grade see class calendar
- PDF layout required for all students
Packaging & Presenting Yourself, Required Reading
- http://adcglobal.org/i-wish-i-knew-that-before-i-created-my-portfolio/
- https://www.aiga.org/portfolio-presenting
Worth 100 Points
- 40 points selection of work: curating best works; adequate number of pieces shown, at least 5 works; readiness of work: legible and readable designs, sized appropriately; demonstrates knowledge of design
- 20 points quality and professionalism: broad range of competencies, varied work; overall quality, preparedness for professional presentation
- 40 points craft of your portfolio: your portfolio layout, alignment, precision, use of grid; high-resolution images with adequate lighting and color adjustment; proper spelling, grammar
- A–B+ for covering all of the required
content in this brief, in a clear and professional manner with high quality imagery, photography, layout
- B–C+ for sharing some of the required content, clearly designing the work, but lacking some quality of visuals
- C- to D- covering very little of the required content, not clearly presenting the work, no visuals shown
- D- to F failing to show all required content, lack of clear explanation, no visuals shown
