Portfolios for Interior Designers E-Book

Maureen Mitton

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 211

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Beschreibung

The complete guide to portfolio development for interior designers It's a widely known fact that interior designers need a strong visual presence in the form of a well-crafted, professional-looking portfolio. Surprisingly, however, many interior designers aren't equipped with the expertise required to organize and unify their work in a fashion that optimally conveys their talents and skills. Portfolios for Interior Designers helps demystify the process by guiding the reader toward mastery in assembling a winning portfolio. It delivers essential step-by-step instruction presented in a manner that shows interior designers how to properly and effectively display their designs. This book also includes: * Color and black-and-white illustrations showing portfolio elements and options * Graphic design concepts necessary for portfolio development * Specific information for the design of digital portfolios * Supplemental teaching resources that direct readers to a companion Web site * Useful tips on the ways that popular graphics software applications can be best implemented for certain portfolio elements * Samples of cover letters and resumes, along with discussion of job search procedures With the aid of real-world examples, Portfolios for Interior Designers examines how a portfolio can be used as an effective tool for communicating with clients and other professionals. A much-needed guide, this book eliminates the uncertainty surrounding portfolio development so that interior designers can showcase their abilities success-fully--and land the next job.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

PART I - BUILDING BLOCKS

ONE - INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW OF THE JOB SEARCH

PHASE 1: PREPARATION

PHASE 2: RESEARCH AND DISTRIBUTION

PHASE 3: THE INTERVIEW AND OFFER

REFERENCES

TWO - PORTOLIO DEVELOPMENT

TELLING YOUR STORY, CREATING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE

THE PORTFOLIO INVENTORY

DESIGN AND PORTFOLIO ORGANIZATION

THE CONTAINER

UNIFYING MANY ELEMENTS

MORE ABOUT DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS

PREPARING WORK FOR THE PORTFOLIO

REFERENCES

THREE - GRAPHIC DESIGN: AN OVERVIEW

AN INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY

HIERARCHY

THE GRID

REFERENCES

FOUR - ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE SOFTWARE AND PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE INDESIGN

ADOBE DREAMWEAVER

ADOBE ACROBAT

REFERENCES

FIVE - RESUMES AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE

THE RESUME

COVER LETTERS AND THANK-YOU NOTES

REFERENCES

PART II - EXAMPLES

SIX - RESUMES AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE

SEVEN - IN THE MAIL AND 0N THE WEB

EIGHT - COMPONENTS FROM COMPLETE PORTFOLIOS

APPENDIX ONE - PROFESSIONAL VOICES

APPENDIX TWO - PERSONAL NARRATIVE EXERCISE

APPENDIX THREE - PORTFOLIO PROJECT REVIEW AND INVENTORY WORKSHEET

APPENDIX FOUR - THE PAMPHLET STITCH INSTRUCTIONS

INDEX

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Mitton, Maureen.

Portfolios for interior designers: a guide to portfolios, creative resumes, and the job search / Maureen Mitton. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-40816-2 (pbk.) ; ISBN 978-0-470-91340-6 (ebk); ISBN 978-0-470-91341-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-0-470-91342-0 (ebk)

1. Interior decoration rendering. 2. Design services—Marketing. 3. Interior decoration—Vocational guidance. I. Title. II. Title: Guide to portfolios, creative resumes, and the job search.

NK2113.5.M59 2010 747.068’8—dc22 2009049256

To my mother, who bought me a portfolio (and a blue wool suit) so that I would finally stop waiting tables and hanging out at the beach. And to my father, who thought nothing of driving across the country—any country—to see what was on the other side.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not be even remotely possible without the many generous people who contributed the wonderful work that graces its pages. I have thoroughly enjoyed the process of looking at work by so many talented and helpful people. If time and space allowed, I would write a paragraph about each contributor; instead, a simple list will have to suffice.

A special thank-you to Ambica Prakash and Bob Atwell, who both contributed major chapter content. Bill Wikrent at the University of Wisconsin-Stout provided excellent technical information on a number of topics. As usual, the staff at Wiley has been wonderful, thank you to Paul Drougas, Sadie Abuhoff, and David Sassian. Andrew Miller seems to have taken my confusing sentences and made them into real paragraphs, for that I am very thankful.

I do thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.

Contributors list, in order of appearance:

(Schools and educators have been listed at the request of the contributor.)

Jim Taft Melissa Brewer Nicole Banaszewski Laura Purcell Shelley Pecha Mollie Drabik Sharon M. Stickney Hannah M. Sparks Jennifer Irey, Iowa State University. Instructor: Cigdem Akkurt. Camilla Stine Alvin & Company Inc Catherine Popp, The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg. Instructor: Suzann Nordstrom. Pina Zangaro Elizabeth Kruse Jordan Breedlove Jaime Schreiner, Iowa State University. Instructor: Cigdem Akkurt. Denis Belenko Katie Carlson Ivan Trushin Jennifer Leafblad Hannah Roesler Elizabeth Calka Nathan Piper Amy Stemper Holly Sivula Katie Goznian Lindsay Lindner Dustin Sparks Julia Stephan Lisa Schwennsen Timothy Dolan Carlin Traugott Cambell, Appalachian State University. Instructors: Timothy Dolan, Jeanne Mercer-Ballard. Laura Van Der Sanden Jennifer Pike, University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (DAAP). Amelia Treptow Jennifer Williams, Florida State University. Instructor: Lisa Waxman. Helen Woods Katie Cantwell Holly McWhorter Julian Hensch Clive Walters, Liverpool John Moores University Katarzyna Borowy Kyle Snyder Molly Naparsteck Dayna Beck, Westwood College Emily Nettler

Thank you all again.

PART I

BUILDING BLOCKS

ONE

INTRODUCTION

The following quotes sum up key points in this book:

Design—whether graphic, industrial, interior or architecture—is the process of taking unrelated parts and putting them together in an organized unit.

—ALEXANDER WHITE, THE ELEMENTS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN: SPACE, UNITY, PAGE ARCHITECTURE, AND TYPE (2002)

And:

Work your plan and plan your work.

This book is intended as an aid in taking what are often seemingly unrelated elements and putting them together in an organized unit—and not being overwhelmed by the process (that’s where having a plan worth working comes in).

Many students, graduates, and job seekers feel overwhelmed by the thought of putting together a portfolio: in representing your entire body of work, the portfolio can symbolize your fears about graduation, employment—even about a successful future. (No small issue there!) However, by breaking down the elements of portfolio development, you can, in fact, develop a plan that yields excellent results.