Putting together your portfolio

Tom Hadavick studied at Glyndwr from 1987-9 and took craft and jewlery, he also studied 3d design sculpting and furniture blacksmtihing. Then Applied for his MA in 1997 for Ceramics and Glass but after 2 years was a painter and decorater in an art gallery, so that he was still close to were he wanted to be. He was allowed at one stage to do a performance piece, by turning the gallery into a sqaush court and dippIing the ball into blue paint, he is currently working on the Olympic torch.

After the introduction he he began on his advice for portfolios. firstly that what interests you may not interest the viewer, but they will still get a chance to learn about you and the use of relevant meaterial for ideas. Next was perhaps the most useful, thinking about the order of the portfolios, having a strong beginning middle and end choice will have major impacts and dont have all best work at the back as they may not get there. Also he emphasised that investing in your career is essential and that you should buy good equipment to make a good impression. The final advice finished up the lecture, design your portfolio to who your showing and that even if you dont get the job now you make them remember you.


My review

Making an impression and being remembered seem an importat aspect of portfolio construction ensuring your portfolio does not get lost in the hundreds of other CV's take you one step closer to getting the job. I have taken from this lecture a better idea of building my professional portfolio, although i think it could have been a more balance lecture. A problem was that an awfully large segment was dedicated to his work, which although good wasnt what i expected from the portfolio lecturer advertised, although it did conatain useful information and structral pointers for portfolios.

how has it changed my views

I know more about how to build my personal portfolio in order to make people think about and remember my work. I know now the structure and placement of pictures are key and that you should achieve an impression rather than bore the reader and this can be through structure alone.

My own research

Sadly after a minimal amount of research i found a website listing everything that was mentioned in the Lecture if not more, as the first result on google. It is quite disapointing to have this information so readily available when i thought i was getting some real insight from a professional. But the research i have found is good and there are a large majority of websites on portfolio construction which i never realised.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2103827_put-together-art-portfolio.html

There are many more hints on the website, but its easy to find peoples structure and advice on all sorts of portfolioswebsites here are some of the link of just a few examples that i found.

http://training.sessions.edu/resources/interviews/interviews/nomi_altabef.asp

http://www.taltopia.com/articles/26003/How-to-Put-Together-a-Modeling-Portfolio

http://www.photoassist.co.uk/fullarticle.asp?ano=1281