Creating the portfolio...

Creating a portfolio is also in the brief. Its always a really good idea of showing a potential business partner or interveiwer what you can do. By showing them your own real life work, they can see what level you are at, what you enjoy doing, and what your strengths are. I am lucky enough to have saved alot of my university and personal work to put in my portfolio and I believe the quality of work included is quite high.

Now I had to think of a way to display it. I quickly sketched up some designs that fit in well with my personal branding and scheme. I like the 2 coloured lines and single white line that were visible in my logo. This could be a theme that could run throughout my portfolio.

Firstly I sketched a few ideas out to see which looked good and which concept worked well with my exsiting theme.

I decided on this design as it is simple and fresh. I have kept the theme running throughout the personal branding work and it is not so busy that it distracts the veiwer from the actual work displayed. I will do some pages in white and some in black, depending on the work that is being displayed.

Here is the template I mocked up on Adobe Photoshop that I can use each time I create a page...



I have decided to use the 2 lines running down the middle then shooting off at an angle. I did this to add a splash of colour to the page to fit in with the theme. the lines act as an underline between the title, brief and analysis of the work. The line then angles off into the middle of the page which the users eyes should follow to see the work.

The work number is the largest writing on the page, this is to indentify the work. Next to this is the work title, client and programmes used. This is all the important information right at the top.