Thursday, September 30, 2010

What Makes a Good Portfolio?

There is much debate around what makes a good portfolio and how to best present your products to a viewer. Simply put I think that a good portfolio needs to do one thing only. Highlight your designs. This can be done in many ways and be prevented in many ways as well. When I say highlight I mean it shows off the strong features, process, and idea behind the design. This is essentially showing off your skills without but it shouldn't come off that way it should come off as showing off the product. Highlighting a product is very easily ruined as well, which often can make a good project come across as bad. This is done through distracting layouts, bad organization, clutter, and bad storytelling. So in saying there here a few examples of solid portfolios or portfolio pages in my mind.

http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?individual_id=162066&portfolio_id=866808&

http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?individual_id=72279&portfolio_id=1295709&specialty=4&sort_by=6&c=1&

http://www.uc.edu/propractice/ind_design/Mueller_Oliver_11.pdf

SPEAKING OF I REALLY NEED TO UPDATE MY PORTFOLIO SOON TO COME

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Back to the Grind

Once again I find myself back in Cincinnati. Once again I face the endless nights of work without sleep. Aside from these facts I am excited to be back. I am really happy with all of my classes and excited for the potential work that may come of them.
Currently our main design studio is revolving around designing a workstation. I have chosen to design an ice fishing hut. This is something I feel is very lacking in design features and I'm not really sure if there is many out there for purchase. This should make for an interesting project and hopefully something that I won't get bored of easily.
Also interviews are coming up quicker than I am ready for and I really need to spend a lot of time getting my portfolio ready for hopefully a solid consulting firm. This is not made easy by the fact my computer is broken.
Anyways just a quick update of things starting back up at UC and I will try and post as much as possible.