Portfolio Design

I decided that I wanted to create a portfolio that would be creative, different from the usual portfolio that is often taken to an office interview.

At the very first stages of development I decided to create my portfolio as a folder filled with imagery of work that I had produced. This idea turned out to be very presentable but not for the line of work that I was wishing to enter into.

After receiving some vital feedback on the design of the portfolio I have drafted up a more creative portfolio design.

I have designed this so that it is suitable for an A4 design and is compact, holding up to 8 of my images in a single A4 flat design. It will also provide flexibility so that it can be used in graphic design interviews and also interviews that would may be for web design or animation creation.

This design allows my logo to be presented with the abilities that I’m skilled in, held around the edges of the portfolio. If an employee wishes to view a particular piece of work they can do so by pulling out the piece (what will be card) to view an image of my work and also some details regarding that piece, such as how and what it was designed on.

 Images can be placed on both sides of 1 piece of card, allowing up to 8 images to be used in this portfolio.

I like this design as I feel that it is flexible and displays a level of creativeness, easy to carry and compact.

After having begun to cut the card that I had purchased to build the Portfolio I soon found that it was becoming increasingly difficult to shape the card in order to create the design that I wanted. It would have also been difficult to print onto the card so it was time to return to the drawing board and begin to create another design.

I wanted to create a design that would meet the requirements of the specified A4 size so I decided to create a Portfolio format that would still look compact but display my imagery and information without the need to remove sectors of it.

I soon came up with the design of creating something similar to a picture frame, so I used the card that I still had and decided to begin to cut it up. I wanted a full A4 size on the front displaying most of my important images and work. On the back I would then have another couple of images that I could use to expand on my work if the front became too full or overcrowded.

Once I had created the boards or the main frame of the portfolio I then sprayed them black as the card I had purchased was white. I felt that the frame being black would make the colours used in the display stand out more.

After printing out the designs that I had created on the computer I then pieced the entire Portfolio together.

Within the portfolio I have stuck to keeping the same font in the title and in the main text as my CV and Business card. It was important that I stuck to the same colours and I used a colour line technique that linked all of the images and information together. The lines also linked together the images and logo. It was important that I kept to the same theme throughout the portfolio to ensure that my personal branding remained connected and linked all together.

I feel that the layout of this Portfolio has kept to the theme of my personal branding extremely well and is a vast improvement from the original. The colours that I have used sell my work well and present the portfolio by expelling the colours and images more sharply. This design meets all of the rerquirements I wanted from the design before it.

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