YOUR PORTFOLIO

Notes and guides to help you create and prepare your portfolio. It is best to keep your portfolio A3 in size and landscape rather than portrait as it is generally easier to layout work and will look better on screen.

Try to keep a consistent layout throughout along with fonts and colours, make your portfolio as visual as possible, leave plenty of white space around your content, don’t try to cram lots of content onto one page - spread it over a couple if need be.

Include enough text to describe your project and processes and the choices you have made. Keep the text to a minimum, this should be a visual portfolio not an essay.

We want to see how versatile and creative you are as an individual. Include a wide range of projects and skills, don’t just include your final design project, include creative work outside your studies; painting, photography, life drawing, ceramics etc. we are interested in your creativity, in whatever form it takes.

Layout style; using a grid immediately creates a sense of order to your work. All of the layouts to the left are based on the same grid.