good work vs. produced work
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- nicole_marie
When it comes to client or work portfolio pieces do you always present what was produced or chosen in the end?
Or do you show what you thought was the best options.
Or even show a process, show what was chosen and what was shown up to that?
- monospaced0
d) all of the above
- version30
the goal is to show them what you can do, show whatever you want. i design/build furniture as a hobby, that has nothing to do with web, but i show some of my stuff to people i think will be interested. the goal is to allow them a view into you as a creative
- baseline_shift0
one of the beautiful things about your folio is that you can present the work as you intended it, not what it became after your meddling, know it all clients (or art directors) get involved.
- neue75_bold0
Depends, but one thing that's always stuck with me from an interview was "I'd rather see good design that wasn't produced, then bad design that was"
But it's all about balance, make sure your good concept work is balanced with actual produced work and some personal work...
- process work is almost a separate book, maybe take 1 - 3 examples and show the project process..neue75_bold
- ukit0
I like to remember things my own way. Not necessarily the way they happened.
- http://www.youpimobi…dyspl
- all of this.
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- dyspl0
I used to think produced work was better, as it showed your ability to bring client's brief and choice to a personal and meaningfull piece. A good way to show you are effective on real projects.
Then I realized I had interview and get full time job proposition because of personnal work I added.
After all it also show what you can do without any excuse ("the client poor choice")I would say, put produced projects your are happy with, and mix them with personnal pieces as well as real projects reworked you own options if ever you think the final result was bad because of client 's choice.
- SlashPeckham0
i try to include the jobs i've had a good experience doing - there are some small pieces on my site but i've kept them there because i either want to remember the people i worked with or the piece represents some good thinking we had at the time... (i've left out some much bigger jobs that made me miserable and unsatisfied)...
its the first time i've taken this approach to curating my work and its actually been really enjoyable to combine commercial with self initiated projects in this way - just a thought