design, university School, March 8, 2007 6:37 PM 4 comments
Internship Portfolio
I've taken my exchange application portfolio that I put together three weeks ago and tweaked it for an institute-related summer internship I was interviewed for today. Some sample shots taken just before my time slot this morning:
Download Jeff Werner Internship Portfolio March 2007 (screen-res PDF, 979 KB).
I've added a couple more entries to do with my video work and combined a couple of the process pages. There is now basically one project per page. I've also reduced the written descriptions (as I was showing the portfolio during the interview), clarified my responsibilities and printed it single-sided ($20 colour laser at InPrint) and bound with a small, silver bulldog clip. Also, portrait orientation, extra margins on the left for flipping, less obtrusive type.
Interesting how, despite catering this portfolio to a particular situation and audience, I actually prefer it as my main portfolio. I've learned so much revising and revising. Even after three weeks I'm still discovering things I dislike about the exchange application and pieces I want to swap out, works I've forgotten about.
I'm learning what really interests me, and the currents that run through my work I was not even aware of.
For the next iteration:
- Top quality printing with Carlos
- Some sort of system that allows me to swap pieces in and out?
- Right align that little blue arrow
- Easy to convert landscape PDF version with hyperlinks and video embedded?
- Clean up images
- Opinions about written descriptions
4 comments on Internship Portfolio
2. pinky | March 9, 2007 1:48 PM
excellent
3. robotoverlord | March 11, 2007 10:57 AM
I just finished my first fully functional multimedia .pdf portfolio and now I hate having to show people the hard copy. So papery and flat and non-hyperlinked. Where did you get that printing done, btw? Looks awesome. No matter how much I pay my blacks always see to come out dingy.
4. Jeff Werner | March 11, 2007 1:41 PM
robotoverlord: it's a great challenge to present multimedia works on paper. So maybe there's something about paper that can lend itself to your content that the web cannot?
My printing was done at InPrint, a cheap, 24-hour colour laser copy place on Broadway at Cypress. Definitely not top quality, but not too bad for $1 a page (full colour, 32 pound stock). If I were producing a full fledged portfolio for major applications (which I will be) I'd get it printed professionally, i.e. at a quality shop using ink jet. I believe Hillside Printing in Victoria recently came recommended.
There are also a number of steps in Photoshop that can be taken to calibrate your colours (and blacks) to the printer and paper you will use. It's all hella complicated, though. See if you can find a shop that will give you an idea how to best prepare your images for their printer.
All that said, the cheap InPrint copy is still pretty good.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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