Building an Online Portfolio

52mBeginner2018-01-29

Authors

Jason Fox

Professor of graphic design at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

Course details

Successful creative professionals know that great gigs start with a great portfolio. An online portfolio site can market your services to clients around the world. It helps explain your vision and your process, and showcase examples of your best work. In this course, SCAD professor Jason Fox shows how to build an expertly curated portfolio that reveals who you are as a designer and the value you can offer clients. He explains how to set your mission, establish your narrative, and tell your story. A strong emphasis is placed on selecting a diverse range of work. Jason also shows how to demonstrate your collaborative skills. By the end of the course, you will understand how to build out a portfolio that best represents your artistic brand.

Learning objectives
Establishing your narrative
Revealing your process
Curating your work
Presenting diverse media
Showcasing collaborative projects

Skills covered

BehanceSmall Business MarketingSmall Business and EntrepreneurshipMarketingAdobeOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - Who this course is for

1. Getting Started

04 - Getting started with your portfolio
05 - Finding your mission statement
06 - Identifying your dream job
07 - Establishing your portfolio narrative

2. Telling Your Story

08 - Revealing process in your portfolio
09 - Show your process - Global process
10 - Show your process - Providing a glimpse
11 - Show your process - Attaching process
12 - Show your process - The case study

3. Selecting Your Work

13 - How to curate your work in a portfolio
14 - Sequence work throughout your porfolio
15 - Presenting diverse media
16 - Revealing your work in context
17 - Diversifying your projects

4. Putting It All Together

18 - Revealing your role in collaborative projects
19 - Review of the process

Conclusion

20 - Next steps