Portfolio

• Most important tool • Job interviews, seeking an

internship, admission to school, landing a project

• Very 1st opportunity • make an impression

• Your ability to communicate design to others

• A representation of yourself• A statement about you

• Collection of you• work, skills, abilities, and

documentation of accomplishments

• your past designs, current, and successful projects

• Find a balance • your best work and not

overwhelming viewer• Identify your strengths

not your weaknesses

Portfolio format

No standard format Personal preference and

style

Traditional way Carrying case

Folded brochure format

• Portfolio book

• Portfolio case and blue prints

Digital portfolio Portfolio in electronic format

○ E-portfolio Using social media

LinkedIn, FB, Instagram,… Web-based portfolio

• Personalize • Keep it professional• not linking to personal site• Minimizing the size of graphic

Create your link

• WIX• https://www.wix.com/website-

template/view/html/1592

• Weebly• www.weebly.com/

• Google site• https://gsuite.google.com/learning-

center/products/sites/get-started/#!/

• Instagram • http://www.cocoonfurnishingsblog.

ca/blog/2018/2/21/7-ways-to-build-your-interior-design-brand-with-instagram

Portfolio book• Blurb

• http://www.blurb.com/portfolio-book

• Lulu.com

• Great price

• Nice quality

• Dean's Superior Blueprint?• Champaign, IL

A good portfolio

• Show a broad base of your abilities and styles

• Show both hand drawn and Technical drawings

• Images quality• Professional photographs and images • Consistency of images

• Without having to rotate the portfolio

• Show your professionalism and ability for a specific project• Show versatility - Perspective, rendering, elevations, plan,

materials/finishes board, model making…

• Pick only your finest examples

• Good range of work

• How much text is necessary to include in your portfolio?

• Keep it to minimal• Written words are not as important as the visual experience

• Website• Much like magazine• Use approximately 2/3 photographs and images• 1/3 texts

Book available on portfolio• Portfolio Design by Harold Linton

• Design portfolios – moving from traditional to digital by Diane M. Bender

Portfolio workshop

Magazine or Webpage

4 - inspiration pieces • What to expect:• You will give a 5-minute presentation to explain the design

elements and principles of your branded identity base on your inspiration pieces

• What do you like about these inspiration pieces?• What are you trying to achieve?• What style and character of your branded identity (portfolio)

would you like to convey?• Peer review report

• 2 peer review on your branded identity and write down their feedback

• Submit to RN by 4 pm today

Due next week

• Assignment #2 - Design a Portfolio storybook• See samples on my website under assignments

• Portfolio storybook by Alyson DePaul

• Portfolio storybook by Laura

Portfolio storybookAssignment #2: (15 p)

Portfolio storybook

Due next week

Assignment #2:Portfolio storybook1. Title page

2. Table of contents

3. Design philosophy

4. Resume (optional)

5. Project divider page

6. Projects

7. Elective Coursework

8. Professional projects (relevant to you)

9. Awards and achievements

Portfolio storybook

• Item 6 - List all the projects that you want to include in your portfolio (at least 6 projects)• Harbor Point condo

• Malaysian Bungalow

• Lighting

• Human factor

• Restaurant

• Bank

• Convenient store

6. Projects

• Collect all your design projects

• List them out by order with a good one at the beginning and towards to the end

• Design project• Project overview• Concept statement• Site info (sq. ft.), existing plan, and existing pictures• Conceptual – schematic diagrams, plan, drawings, mood

board, concept board, study models, matrix, …• Design development – final furniture plan, elevations,

perspectives, final model, cost sheet, specification, …• Others

• Draft your storybook• Follow the sequence 1 thru 9 (only that

are applicable )

• List all the required for individual page

• Submit to RN by next week

1 2.. 3 4 5 6

Assignment #2 - Portfolio storybook

7 8 9 10 11 12

Title pageName, contact, University, CIDA

Table of Content1. Kitchen Remodeling2. Floating House3. Bank4. Restaurant 5. Bank 6. Convenient store

Design philosophy1. _____________2. _____________3. _____________

Resume (opt.) Divider pageVisual elementResidential design

Project 1Harbor Point CondoProject OverviewConcept Schematic designPlans, Sketch upMaterials and finishesSolution

Divider page Project 2 Divider page Project 3 Divider page Project 4

15 16 17 18..

Related workDivider page AwardsProfessional work

13 14

Divider page Project 5

Due todayAssignment #1: (15 p)

Personal Information

Looking at a good portfolio layout