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

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