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Building Design Portfolios: Innovative Concepts for Presenting Your Work (Design Field Guide)

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This is a pretty good book. It shows a variety of portfolios and explains some of the ideas that went into them. It's almost more of a showcase though than a learning tool. I don't feel that the author teaches much. She shows the portfolio then describes a little about what makes it work, and that is all. I would prefer it if she also showed some bad portfolio designs and show why they do not work.

Some of the web portfolio she shows are pretty lackluster. One is built with flash and has pixelated type. The 'design' of it doesn't seem all that fantastic either.

I felt like many of the portfolios shown were more about theory than practice. Cutsie ideas that may work in a school environment but may not work in the real world.

Stan Alachniewicz
Designer for 6 years.

While I'm not a design newbie, I am still in the beginning of my career and my portfolio continues to be a challenge. This is the first book on portfolios that I've actually found to be helpful and inspiring. I love that she shows and addresses resumes and cover letters, and I love that various types of portfolios are addressed. I only wish there were more comments/quotes/advice from well-known designers in the industry. It feels like the ones that were included were rather old or too specific to one area of design. But overall, definitely worth the read.

This is the information I've been needing to assemble a portfolio that will shine. I think it should be require reading for anyone in Graphic Design who is trying to sell themselves through their portfolio.

I think this is a great book for those looking for ideas on making a new portfolio. Especially students about to graduate (like me). I got the idea for my portfolio from this book. It shows a ton of awesome examples in there and it is really inspiring.

This book is great at getting ideas going for portfolio's and resumes. Unlike other books I have where they just show you very basic layouts, this book shows you very innovative ideas and various ways to go about designing and creating your portfolio.

I am an architect with 15 years experience, and am thinking of making a book type portfolio. This book has some nice images but it is primarily geared toward graphic designers. I would not recommend it for an architecture design portfolio. The title is a little misleading..... Building Design Portfolios..... its not about "building" in the sense of constructed habitats....
Beautifully designed book.

The book covers all the pertinent topics related to portfolio design. It is loaded with lots of good examples. The quality and craftsmanship exhibited in the book is very high. It is a wonderful reference for anyone who is building a portfolio.

This is a great book - I have found it to be very informative and the author is quite thorough. Gorgeous images and I am really happy with the purchase.

I just wish someone would write a book such as this relative to the Asia Pacific market!

Definitely worth a look as it is really well presented.

this book is amazing, it is so informative and helpfull to the graphic design or art student looking to get into their career, it showcases other peoples portfolios so you get an idea of what the competition is doing, i recomend this book to anyone, BUT to the publisher or auther or book cover designer, BAAAD job, i mean i get that the book is a portfolio ha ha ha, cool, but it drives me crazy to have that flap on it, come on make it a dust cover so i can remove it... but still a book worth having

Porque me gustaría que esté en español.
Los datos que deberian incluir los diseñadores sobre su vida me parecio muy interesante. Algunos de nosotros nos cuesta escribir que es lo que quieren saber y deben saber de nosotros.
Porque no todo es diseño sino que se tiene que seguir un protocolo, que es importantísimo.