Top 5 portfolio techniques.

After research, I have found my top 5 tips for enhancing a portfolio (in no particular order)...


1. "When ordering your pages, we’d suggest starting with your second best project, and finishing with your best piece. Also, try to make sure you don't have two projects running over one spread. You’ll find that as you’re explaining the first page of the spread, the next project is being looked at before you’re ready to move on to it. To fix this, just space your projects out, even if it means you’ve one or two blank pages in there." - Thoughtful


2. "Be ruthless with your portfolio. You don’t need to show everything you’ve ever done, so choose around 10 of your best projects. The ones you get excited and passionate about. You’ll be able to talk about these with enthusiasm and hopefully, get your potential employer excited too." - Thoughtful


3. "Layout: As I said just up there, when I told you to stop archiving, your work needs to be communicated so design something that will allow it to do so. It will help to be very strict with a grid and how much you put down, but this all comes down to forgetting your work (another one-at the very top). I'd suggest going for a simple and to the point grid that allows you to be flexible." - ohshitwhatnow


4. "Landscape: is one of many ways you can present your work. And it's probably the better way to do it—but of course this depends on your work that you're presenting. If the majority of your work works better in portrait, then the answer is obvious—likewise if it's Landscape. If you have a mixture, you'll end up spinning the book around more than an empty bottle at a teenagers' sleep-over, so I suggest you be harsh with yourself: pick one and stick with it" - ohshitwhatnow


5. "Always rehearse your portfolio. I know, I know, you're thinking "Rehearse? Fuck off. If my mates saw me they'd never let me live it down." And although this may be the case, and you may just develop a fear of public speaking due to the monotonous friend-ridicule, it's still important. I always used to write out every possible thing I wanted to say about each project. Then I'd read it aloud. It allows you to get a feeling for how you sound when presenting your work." - ohshitwhatnow