Portfoli-Ohhhh..!

Week 8:

I bought my first portfolio as a hopeful high school junior in order to attend an portfolio review to be accepted in to art school. I chocked it full of cartoons and whatever else I thought might be classified as "art" and heading down to New York with my dad. Oh, if I had only known then what I know now about portfolios! Until just recently I thought that a portfolio was more than a mishmash of work thrown into a file-like contraption. I had never imagined or known a portfolio to be anything more because I had never spent any time investigating the topic.  Fortunately, IDD 480 has changed all that.  I am not in the midst of learning about and creating my own portfolio...one digital and one in print.

I have been sketching a few design ideas for my print portfolio (well, the case at least) and I think that I am going to go with a cereal box theme.  I will design a cereal box with a graphic design theme.  I am thinking of calling it "Creative Crunch" and putting things like "creativity" and "attention to detail" under the nutrition facts.  

I need to do some optimizing of my work for my online portfolio as well as for a PDF of some of my work to send out to potential employers.  I have my resume all made and in PDF format, but I still have to add on these samples of my work as a way to hopefully entice someone to hire me!  I'm planning on going out to buy a box that I can use as my portfolio and decoupage my cereal box design to in the next week or so.  This is getting exciting!