Blog 9 - March 29

Designing a Digial Portfolio-Chapter 9
Creating Written Content:

create a portfolio with no written content, that way you can elaborate about a piece and just speak from your mind

What to write and why
-identify your work
-introduce yourself
-explain your ideas and process
-speak directly to your audience

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this website shows how you can incorporate the details of a project, in various ways
-dont use abbreviations
-know all names, titles, spelling

Introducing yourself:
resume:
keep it clean, visually and verbally, no errors, the more readers the better

CUSTOMIZING:
customizing your resume slightly to each company can make it look like you took specific interest in them and that you know about them

The Bio:
short note that explains yourself and your experiences

The examples of resumes that has misspellings and much needed corrections was really funny, a good way to ease my mind mid-reading!
tips:
-check spelling as you type (option to click on while working)
- verbal diarrhea-keep it short and sweet
-too many "ands"- dont use this word unless its in a series of things
-know when to capitalize

Cover Letters:
should included a standard salutation, short reference to who you are and why you are sending your material, and a thank you in advance for their interest in your work

Design Brief:
a capsule overview of the client and their project, or they can be more complete explanations of the project and its criteria

Case Study:
a full analysis of the design problem and its solution, should be in its own window

Process Comments:
show examples of your process, and annotate your sketches with comments

rob.id.au : an amazing website showing industrial designer Rob Shearing's work

Philosophy:
your work should address how you think and what you believe about our profession

Writing to your Audience:
it can be an enormous plus to be able to project a little of yourself into your writing

Humor in Work: Jeff the Designer
playing games can break the ice, this makes me happy considering some of my flash animation projects are kind of silly

Getting your words worth: sandstromdesign.com

The president of this site, Rick Braithwaite, is crazy and very good at what he does.The site has a very clear navigation, simple and clean. I think its a great site, and has a great way of showing off their work.

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After browsing through the pages of personal portfolios my head was spinning.

All these designs look great, but how am I going to make a portfolio, or promotional piece that looks half as good as these?
I originally wanted to make another portfolio, aside from my website, to emulate a magazine but that idea was not greatly accepted. So now I am thinking about making a little flip book style project that will include some pieces of my work on each page, with a little description of the project on it. In this book there is an example of a promotional piece by Janet Odgis, who takes little cards and prints examples of her work on it, and binds them together with a little nub. She packages them together with bubble wrap. I think that this idea is cute, and really just shows all the work, in an uncomplicated, unique way.