good ? on portofolio
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- SoulFly
A friend of mine asked me this question,
Does anyone modify (slightly or substantially) the pieces on your portfolio?Lets say you work on a product, but it gets changed about by marketing directors, ownwers, or whoever to the point you don't like it, but it gets finalized anyway. (and most of the time the changes do make sense for the company or product)
Would you change it to the way you wanted, to make it more interesting, contemporary or whatever, if you think you need to, when it comes to building your folio?
Is that something common amongst designers?? Give me your honest opinions.
- monospaced0
Show your best work, always. Sometimes I show the final "modified" product itself and explain how it got to that point through working with the client. It's fun to show both and talk about the process, which is almost always an interview question.
- that's a good point! show you can make the client happy.SoulFly
- tasty0
I have comps in my portfolio that never went live.
And i've shown versions that were pre-client edits as well.Sometimes when you bog it down with legal copy and excessive text as clients love to do, it get's ugly.
- SoulFly0
What about changing a brochure that clearly says 2001 on the cover to say 2007, is that unethical practices?
(I'm not talking about myself, a friend was asking the other day)
- epete220
i wouldnt go back more than 4 years.
- Spookytim0
I have a half and half answer to this... I vow, always, to make my own, better version of almost everything I ever do, to show what it WOULD have looked like if the client hadn't grabbed the wheel and forced it off the road... but then I update so infrequently and pump out so much stuff that I rarely get round to it so end up just sticking the production version up and hating it.
- ukit0
Absolutely. You should always put your best foot forward. Your portfolio should be an accurate display of the best of your abilities, not the ability of some marketing director to f*ck it up.
Then, if you're ever asked, just be honest and say you wanted to show the work the way you designed it.
I remember some NT user, I think it was Concrete, launched a folio that was 90% self-initiated work and it was brilliant.
I wouldn't change the date though, why would you do that?