Portfolio Tips
• Take charge: offer to show your work at an appropriate time and be the one to turn pages and direct the interviewer’s attention throughout.
• When presenting, talk through your portfolio, explaining the inspiration behind each project, as well as your choice of colour & shape. Also, draw your interviewer’s attention to particularly commercial / successful styles.
• Start with your most recent project, think of your portfolio as a CV: your work should be presented in reverse chronological order.
• Most recent work in your portfolio should not be older that 6 months, if it is, work on a new project to bring it up-to date. Compile moodboards to reflect current trends and sketch style ideas.
• Fit all moodboards & sketches into the plastic pages, do not have any loose pages / notebooks / fabrics tucked in at the back or between pages.
• Make sure your work is facing one direction, so you do not have to rotate the portfolio with every new page.
• Work on the presentation: the best style presentation would consist of a hand sketch of the style, more detailed CAD-drawing and a fabric sample all laid out against appropriate background.
• Current tendency is towards A4 size portfolios, but A3 size is still widely accepted.
