Portfolio Talk

We had a talk with Gellan Watt, MD of Thinking Juice, and one of his designers about portfolios. They came in to give us tips on what we need to do to make a winning portfolio and to have a look at what we already have. Because of them coming in, i decided to start making a new portfolio for myself. I wanted to have something that would allow my portfolio to flow and link each page together so i made a simple template that i could just keep on the master page on my InDesign document. this is one of the pages that i made. It's not 100% finished and i want to go through it all again and make sure it is all in the right order but it will probably be something that always changes.


They gave us some really good pointers on what they would like to see in a portfolio. The most obvios one that we already knew would be to make sure tit has the right stuff in it for the job that we want for example, if we were going for an advertising job then we need to have ads in the portfolio. Another thing they said was they would rather see 4 really good items than 4 really good and 6 really bad pieces. Having said that, Gellan then said he would obviously rather see 10 really good things rather than 4! It was a good talk, and i got some really tips from it, i need to make sure i am confident with what i am showing, and i need to make sure i can talk about each piece and not say "I wasn't very happy with this beacause..", if i cn do this, then i will be set!