Junior Design Seminar F19

Reading #8

Professional Print Portfolios

Most portfolios are digital, but sometimes they are made to print by professionals to submit when applying for a grant or award. There may also be print of the Studio's Portfolio on hand to show clients. It can be helpful to make a printed portfolio that is easy to update and change.

Here are some examples from the book:

Skolos-Wedell - case designed to be durable and not show wear from being handled. They include process work and paper samples. They use a barn door style design to but images into different relationships to each other as the pages are turned.
Stoltze - they maintain several different portfolios that are usually customized to the client
Deborah Norcross - CD designer for Warner Bros. Her book is professional and complete
Melle Hammer - From the Netherlands. Keeps his content up to date with his current projects and explains the setting whenever possible. He uses inexpensive black and white photocopies with a simple binding and he likes to present them unpolished
Rebeca Mendez - professor at UCLA Design Media. Her portfolio has her most recent work and catalogs for the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. It is a manufactured linen-covered box that is simple but well made

Project 3 - Roller Derby Merch

The style of the target audience

Visual research

Here are some examples of Merch Table Setups:

These are old class projects that I am basing this current project on:

I sketched this in 2011 for my Character Development Class

I made this in 2010 on Adobe Illustrator for my Advanced Typography class

Summer sketchbook

Reading #7

Promotions

Mailers

mini portfolio mailers, made the size of a padded envelope. a screw holds them together to make a fan of samples
many promotional items can be very inexpensive

Books and Monographs

monograph = self-published book of your own work
expensive, time consuming, and difficult to sell

CDs

Can be easy for art directors to store, and less intrusive than a PDF

PDFs

easy to make and update - can be cheaper than a website
a good choice if you are working with large format work
some designers think that print portfolios are a thing of the past and that work can be presented just as well digitally