Week 7

Designing a Digital Portfolio, Ch. 7

This was an interesting section of the book, and I suppose there were many elements here that I haven’t yet considered. As with the last chapter, Baron has provided the reader with a very systematic way of “cleaning up.” An interesting fact that I didn’t know: “JPEGS continue to lose more information every time you open one, make an edit (no matter how small), and resave it. (p. 121)” The section on histograms is nothing new to me, though the “cheat sheet” on p. 124 was a useful tool. I liked the fact that Baron used some examples in explaining the concepts of this chapter. In particular, I enjoyed Eleven’s portfolio. I may integrate the clarity of the Eleven website into my own portfolio. This chapter was a good tour guide.


Building Design Portfolios, up to p. 74

I’m beginning to enjoy this book for a simple reason; the artwork. I can open up to just about any page and know what the section is about without reading any text. All I need to look at is the artwork on the page, and it seems that there isn’t a page in this book that doesn’t contain artwork in some form. The cover letter and resume section seems quite helpful. There isn’t many sources for good information regarding these topics on the internet, so this seemed to be an important section of the book. Also, I’ve tended to avoid working with PDFs, but p. 66-7 have got me thinking about using one for my self-promo – just an idea for now.