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that are killing your graphic design portfolio it should go without saying
that your portfolio as a designer is one of the most important and crucial things
to your success in the industry any potential client or customer is going to
look at your portfolio of work to base their assumptions on you and the
possible work that you're gonna put out for their projects so the first thing
that's killing your portfolio is low resolution on the work that's in your
portfolio now this should go without saying but it's astonishing to see the
amount of graphic design portfolios online that have low or even just
mediocre resolution imagery this does not look professional and I actually
suggest to anybody looking your work that you don't care about such things as
resolution which is one of the most fundamental and one of the most basic
things that you can get right or wrong in graphic design she likes to look at
liberals Ellucian imagery nobody so make sure that you have high resolution
imagery on all of the projects within your portfolio there should be no excuse
if you're a competent designer and you've got the skills you shouldn't be
putting out a low resolution work to begin with and so there should be
nothing that crawls into your portfolio we have the low resolution quality the
second thing that's killing your portfolio of work is poor choice of
selection the main thing that comes into there see is that you should be choosing
your best work now this might not be the favorite project that you have or you
know the most fun project that you had working on this should be the work
that's the most strongest from a critical graphic design point of view so
your best work that has the ultimate layouts
has the ultimate font combinations you know look at these small details and
pick apart your projects and see what works and what doesn't work and what's
strong almost weak also you shouldn't be adding in work that's older than three
or four years old into your portfolio you want to stay relevant and you want
to keep things up to date so when you're actually choosing what work goes into
your portfolio have a critical eye and maybe even ask an outside person so you
can have their opinion in their view on the matter as well
the third thing that's killing your graphic design portfolio is a big one
and it's not having flow throughout the whole portfolio what do I mean by flow
but basically your portfolio should have a link theme throughout and the viewer
should be able to move from one project to the next without any kind of sudden
change in design style and so forth
so you might want to have a minimalistic style portfolio and that's great but
moving from the first to the second project you don't want to suddenly jump
into something that's like mixed media and really busy you want to keep the
style throughout the same keeping the style the same throughout is going to be
visually appealing and it's actually a sign or an indicator or a professional
and seasoned designer if you look at any high-end or professional design
portfolio it's got a single theme running throughout which is a kind of
signature to that portfolio or the designer the fourth thing that's killing
your graphic design portfolio is not having like some information on the
projects or even the clients now you don't need to get overboard of this but
make sure that you've got some notes somewhere in a tactful and visually
appealing manner about the project that you worked on and also the client as
well this could be information such as CMYK values of a logo design you could
give a brief outline of what the client wanted from you so if we go back to the
example of a logo design maybe the client needed to like update the logo of
an existing design and they came to you to revamp their logo for 2018 so yeah
maybe list of project goals that were set at the star of the project and in
your opinion if they were actually met on project completion it's always good
to have some information because it gives the whole portfolio some credence
I just solidify yourself as a designer and your portfolio of work the fifth and
final thing that's killing your graphic design portfolio is saturation you could
look at the other end of the spectrum not having enough work as well but the
main thing that people normally do with regard to how many projects go into
their portfolio of work is they add too many you don't want to get any higher
than 20 projects up I would probably suggest keep it around 10 or 15 again
you just want to add in your best work and you want to show off your skills
with those pieces alone if you start throwing in all projects here and there
it's gonna look too busy and you're not gonna do yourself any favors as a
designer if you put xxx saturated with too much work a possible client wants to
look through your projects and they want to have quality over quantity trust me
so don't leave a saturate your portfolio guys so there is today's video of 5
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