Building Design Portfolios: Innovative Concepts for Presenting Your Work
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New in Paperback! Brush up your books and PDF portfolios and improve your understanding of what the current standards are.Presenting one’s portfolio is where every designer begins his or her career. Therefore, crafting a portfolio, whether online or for presentation in person, is an essential skill for survival. Because a portfolio can make or break a career, it is vital that designers go out armed with all the right moves and materials.This book talks both t… More >>
Building Design Portfolios: Innovative Concepts for Presenting Your Work
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This is a pretty good book. It shows a variety of portfolios and explains some of the ideas that went into them. It’s almost more of a showcase though than a learning tool. I don’t feel that the author teaches much. She shows the portfolio then describes a little about what makes it work, and that is all. I would prefer it if she also showed some bad portfolio designs and show why they do not work.
Some of the web portfolio she shows are pretty lackluster. One is built with flash and has pixelated type. The ‘design’ of it doesn’t seem all that fantastic either.
I felt like many of the portfolios shown were more about theory than practice. Cutsie ideas that may work in a school environment but may not work in the real world.
Stan Alachniewicz
Designer for 6 years.
Rating: 4 / 5
While I’m not a design newbie, I am still in the beginning of my career and my portfolio continues to be a challenge. This is the first book on portfolios that I’ve actually found to be helpful and inspiring. I love that she shows and addresses resumes and cover letters, and I love that various types of portfolios are addressed. I only wish there were more comments/quotes/advice from well-known designers in the industry. It feels like the ones that were included were rather old or too specific to one area of design. But overall, definitely worth the read.
Rating: 4 / 5
I think this is a great book for those looking for ideas on making a new portfolio. Especially students about to graduate (like me). I got the idea for my portfolio from this book. It shows a ton of awesome examples in there and it is really inspiring.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book covers all the pertinent topics related to portfolio design. It is loaded with lots of good examples. The quality and craftsmanship exhibited in the book is very high. It is a wonderful reference for anyone who is building a portfolio.
Rating: 4 / 5
this book is amazing, it is so informative and helpfull to the graphic design or art student looking to get into their career, it showcases other peoples portfolios so you get an idea of what the competition is doing, i recomend this book to anyone, BUT to the publisher or auther or book cover designer, BAAAD job, i mean i get that the book is a portfolio ha ha ha, cool, but it drives me crazy to have that flap on it, come on make it a dust cover so i can remove it… but still a book worth having
Rating: 4 / 5