Designing Creative Portfolios [Paperback]

Gregg Berryman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2, 1993

"Designing Creative Portfolios" is a valuable reference and text for students, instructors, counselors, and employees in the creative visual professions. This book helps you examine the portfolio process in great depth, from every perspective. You learn to audit, analyze, plan, edit, arrange, and package your creative work. Portfolio sizes, materials, cases, sequence, and presentation techniques are explored to help you direct your best work to target positions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Crisp Learning; 1 edition (August 2, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560521139
• ISBN-13: 978-1560521136
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Originally written in 1942, this book is USELESS in 1999!!!!, May 20, 1999

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This review is from: Designing Creative Portfolios (Paperback)

This book should have been retired 57 years ago, when it first came out. Re-released in 1994 with four new pages pertaining to electronic portfolios, this book is useless for someone needing visual aides for creating a portfolio. A few drawings are used to show how to store your portfolio under your seat on a plane. Now that's handy advice! There's even a drawing of a Viewmaster (remember those?) and how to use that as a portfolio tool. This book is a joke.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars read this before you buy, March 20, 2001

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This review is from: Designing Creative Portfolios (Paperback)

This neat little 70+ pages book was a disappointment. Perhaps because I was looking for something else. I am writing this review because I don't want someone to make my mistake. See, I was looking for a book that would be full of colored photos and diagrams; I was looking for pictorial examples and suggestions of "creative" portfolios. I really wanted to SEE the ideas. What I got was black and white, mostly text with a few pages of hand drawn sketches and clip arts. I think it's a pretty good intro to "how to create a portfolio", but it still lacks a lot of information. One thing, it generalizes how a portfolio should be created. It seems to assume to you can get away with having one good portfolio. It never talks about how you should diversify/change your portfolio according to where you are submitting it to--a graphic design firm vs. a publication firm vs. web developing firm vs. newspaper. One of the biggest failure is in its information about submitting a porfolio for grad schools. It talks as if all Grad programs are looking for a certain type of portfolio. It never even told the reader to READ carefully, each school's portfolio requirements. Hmm..I don't recommend this book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Creative this book is not, October 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Designing Creative Portfolios (Paperback)

If you're in a design field such as architecture or graphic design, and looking for some inspiration or direction to help you with your portfolio, look somewhere else. This book is a waste of trees. The pictures are almost non-existant, and those that do appear are nothing more than clip art. The text is matter of fact and never strays from the blatantly obvious.