posted 12-30-2003 12:19 AM              

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graduated from uni in June and have been pissing about for six month and just realized that its about time for me to get a job. i got bits and pieces floating around and i am wondering if it is better to do the whole thing again or just copy and paste on photoshop?

help will be appreciated greatly

Cheers

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posted 12-30-2003 12:59 AM              

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i say what in damn hell are you talking about boy, you make no gosh darn sense. What in the hell are you going to copy and paste?!? eh wah??

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posted 12-30-2003 10:16 AM              

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You spent 4+ years in school and never worked on putting a formal portfolio together. I think it is a bit late...don't you. Perhapse the Pub down the street is looking for a bartender, sounds like that is more up your alley.

Any serious designer would have been designing his/her portfolio since the begining of the third year.

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posted 12-30-2003 10:27 AM              

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Agreed. Are you really interested in even being a designer, or did you just go to school becauset that's what everyone else did?
Even upon graduation and landing a nice job, really successful ID'ers keep chugging away at their portfolio, constantly making improvements and adding side-projects. As everyone can tell, the job market is tough. Even if it wasn't tough, it's the dedicated and talented that land the jobs. In hindsight, you should have been working on your portfolio for the last 2 years, but since you can't change that...
For your portfolio, develop a standard theme to your projects. Maybe change the color swatches from project to project, but keep the main theme intact. I generally put things together in Photoshop and then use illustrator for text. The final image is a TIF that never loses resolution. It's not really that much work. Of course, one you have your portfolio done you will need to develop a mailer, resume, and maybe a website. See, that's why you start early on this stuff!!

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posted 12-30-2003 10:43 AM              

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Depends on the quality of the pieces that you got floating around. If your work is visually good enough with logical design progression, sure, copy and paste them into portfolio style sheets of your own design in photoshop.I would co-ordinate some of these pieces into relative projects (i.e. relative to what areas you want to work in and pieces relevant inherently to the product/project designed.) Get the opinions of true professionals in the industry to give you an idea of the quality and best focus of your work.

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posted 12-30-2003 04:10 PM              

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while i agree that you should have had your portfolio well on its way in the third year, i can see where you are coming from. If you are anything like me, you would have put 100% into the final year not really leaving yourself much time for sorting your portfolio out. However if you are a decent enough designer then even some of your most shoddy work should still be above the average standard of Joe Schmoe. I left university with a range of projects that were not totally complete or presented in the same format or theme, this never affected me, however i can see why a themed portfoilio does benifit. dont be too hard on yourself about being behind too, in my experience you are more likely to get the job when you are confident about your work, which means having your portfolio that meets your standards, so take as long as you need, but remember there are others like you searching so timing is crucial.

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posted 12-30-2003 09:49 PM              

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I belive that its all about how it looks!
Get a good Printer and Use The Best Paper
Like Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Duo! If it looks good Than people look! If it looks like s__T
than guess what bye bye!

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posted 12-31-2003 02:49 PM              

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paper boy is right fancy it up, but be carefull not to make it look like your work sucks so you have to jazz it up with all this fancy paper ect. let it show that you cared enough to enhance on the presentation, not that you are hiding how crappy of a designer you are or it will backfire.

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posted 12-31-2003 03:09 PM              

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Paper isn't always the answer. Remember...You can't polish a turd.

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posted 12-31-2003 04:36 PM              

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yes you can if you dry it and then slap some varnish on it...^^
i think???
oh alright i tried it!

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