Response: Portfolios

Here's some work from my London internship at 

World of Accessories.

These were little pages that went up on their website Lookbook.

I think I've improved!

I also did a lot of photographing and retouching of products 

that were put on the website to be sold. 

Yes, that's my wrist with the arm candy, as well as my funky fingernails.

I found the portfolio critiques rushed.  I hope we get a one-on-one later because after seeing so much work in such little time, I don't know if we were all giving the best possible critiques.

I have to say that I was very impressed with my peers' work.  My weakness in my portfolio is that I don't have enough typographic designs, and I got some great inspiration for future assignments from Katie and Krista's portfolios.  In particular, I really loved the True/False camera with a the reel made out of words, and same with a fork and strawberry in the same style.  I need to find a tutorial on that ASAP!

It was also cool to see a lot of advertising and newspaper designs.  I don't have any news design experience, and I think those pieces made those designers' profiles much stronger.

When I was reading the assignment breakdown, I thought we were supposed to bring in 12 examples of work.  I didn't want to waste my quota printing the entire True/False feature app, so I failed to include that in my profile, as well as my alternatives for VOX cover designs, webwork from my internship and all of my department pages.

Whoops!

Anyways, I really appreciated the feedback I received and feel that I have a good sense of what to include to make my portfolio stronger before the semester is up.  Thanks, all!