What's a Portfolio?
Some people have asked me what exactly a "portfolio" entails. Usually, at PC at least, final portfolios are large black books with clean, crisp shots of your work. These are housed in a custom-built box which also contains a few handhelds like annual reports or small products. It's pretty substantial and impressive to see someone slam one of these bad boys down and open it up, James Bond style. One of my advisors told a story about a job candidate who kept his work in a pressurized case, making this cool woosh sound when it was opened. Sometimes people get crazy with fabrics and laser-etched metal, but the general rule of thumb is that the work should speak for itself; it's best left in a professional but neutral housing. A museum, not a rock concert. So it's a little scary to think that my final portfolio is going to be entirely online, where there is no single accepted format to present yourself with. Lately it feels like I've been spending just as much time on revisiting my projects as I am on the website (which will actually be a new domain, separate from okaysamurai.com). But the packaging has the potential to be very cool - not saturated with Flash and After Effects explosions, but rather engaging...and dare I say entertaining.
Addendum: Last night I talked to a few people who went to the successful New York portfolio review; peeps are rocking interviews like crazy. Rusty said that a substantial amount of companies seemed to be looking for interactive designers, and that one woman even went so far as to tell him "Why do you have all this print stuff? Print is dead." Interesting...
Wednesday, November 2 at 4:02 PM
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