Folio advice
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So I'm trying to make a new folio that will finally make me happy, something I can feel good to show an employer at a firm. I'm going on my second year out of skool, and I haven't had to much freelance work, and most of my skool work is well shit. So I'm thinking of just designing like mock ups for companies real or fake. what's your take on this?
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Companies admire real or fake work because it shows initiative. It shows your ambitious and love what you do. A portfolio is is a document showing what your capable of, and thats all you'd be doing.
Also, dont mount your work, its a waste of time, I've never understood why colleges tell their students to do this. Just print everything on A3...looks more professional and weighs less..
good luck.....
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at first I was like mount? wha? oh no no f that I'm poor. Mount things, yeah I agree it looks bad and it's mad bulky.
What I want to do is make a book, or a breif I guess, make it like 25 to 50 pages of works, sketchs stuff I did, and I'll lay it out and make it drip with steez. But that's going to be some money....but as Mr. Trump would say "Got spend money to make money.... fool"
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I wouldnt present too many sketches beacuse if its a graphic design job, then your not going to be spending all day sketching. Id also scan them in and print them out rather than showing the sketch books. Just try to think more professional, clean / neat /and minimal.
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yeah and the thing is to I want to do is keep the online and the print kind similar but kinda get a little more crazy with the print, and more conservative with the online. I don't know, I don't have much design training, it's mainly self tought. I went to one of those 1 year skool jobbies, you know wam bam thank you mam, but I like it so I just keep at it.
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...personally, I think its good if elements of a portfolio website are translated through onto a printed portfolio. Its almost a creation of your own corporate styling, but be careful not to over style it, keep it all minamal as you dont want to distract the viewer away from your work.
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I guess that's true but since my stuff will mainly be mock ups wouldn't it make sense tp also kinda jazz it up a bit
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what is it your mocking up?
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probably be some corprate sites, just because I don't have a lot of them in my bag of tricks. Since it the bread winner for agencies I would just like to show that I have the ability to do that design, as well as do some other things that show I can think out of the box. if that makes sense
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If your designing for fake companies, you want them to look as professional as possible. Design a logo / guidlines / site / stationery / adverts / transport. Treat it as though they where a real client requiring many apllications. On the presentation side of things, simply have a brief description underneath the work.... why not just tell me what you designing, and I'll do it all for you ;P
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now were would the fun in that be :P
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good work is good work.. mockups are definetly a good idea if you don't a have a lot of real work experience..
good luck!
ps: sleep is for the weak (6:20am and im still goin... ajeeaah!)