- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: New Riders; 2 edition (17 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321637518
- ISBN-13: 978-0321637512
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 209,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Portfolios have always been artists' most valuable tools for communicating their talents to the outside world, whether to potential employers or galleries or clients. But the days of sketches and slides have given way to arrangements of digital assets that are both simpler and more complex than their traditional analog counterparts.
Instructor and design professional Cynthia Baron covers all the facets that artists need to know, from choosing the best work for a particular audience to using various file formats to organizing, designing, and presenting the portfolio. Beautiful full-color illustrations demonstrate her instructions, and case studies throughout portray examples of attractive and effective portfolio design. This book gives artists at any level a creative edge, ensuring that their portfolios get noticed and help them stand out from the crowd.
Instructor and design professional Cynthia Baron covers all the facets that artists need to know, from choosing the best work for a particular audience to using various file formats to organizing, designing, and presenting the portfolio. Beautiful full-color illustrations demonstrate her instructions, and case studies throughout portray examples of attractive and effective portfolio design. This book gives artists at any level a creative edge, ensuring that their portfolios get noticed and help them stand out from the crowd.
About the Author
Cynthia Baron (Brookline, MA) is the Associate Director, Digital Media
programs and Multimedia Studies at Northeastern University. Previously
Technical Director and Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts, she holds
an MBA from Northeastern University with a Marketing concentration and
was the executive vice president of a Boston-based graphic design studio for
over a decade. She has written for many publications, been a series editor for
Rockport Publishers and a contributing editor to the magazines Critique and
Computer Graphics World. She has edited, authored, or co-authored over a
dozen books, including Designing a Digital Portfolio and The Little Digital
Camera.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Verbose and Mediocre,
This review is from: Designing a Digital Portfolio (Voices) (Paperback)
I bought this book with the hope that I would be able to find quick, easy and at the same time instructive information on how to design and construct a digital portfolio - what are the tools I need and how to use them. If you're looking for a book that will help you with your college research paper on the "how to of a digital portfolio" this is the book for you. You have lots of time to read and read and read. And yes there is some good information and tips not just on the structure but on marketing and protecting your work in a digital format.But, if like me, you need a well thought-out coherent and easy to use guide on setting up a digital portfolio this is not the book for you
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4.7 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 64 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the Best Books on the Topic,
By V. Maciulski - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Designing a Digital Portfolio (Voices) (Paperback)
This is one of the best books on its topic that I have ever seen. From the title, I expected to find advice on preparing images for the screen, how to put them on a CD or DVD, etc. Those things are there, but the book begins in a logical place that I wouldn't have considered. Brown's approach is truly holistic.Check out page 23 for the first page of a three-page self assessment check list. It has you evaluate your professional strengths and weaknesses, goals and personality. Chapter 3 asks you a bunch of questions to help you identify who your audience really is and focus on them. The rest of the book covers various digital formats, how to organize your work, how to get images of 3D and oversized work into your portfolio, including choosing a camera and setting up for shooting. Ms. Brown covers editing your images to remove the most common problems, such as moire, sharpening needs, bad crops, etc. And ... she devotes a section to creating written content to accompany your stunning images, telling you how to write to that audience you defined earlier. She explains the differences between a monitor screen and a printed page. You need to know that to design the correct interface for your portfolio. She also has a full chapter devoted to marketing and copyright issues. The entire book is scattered with quotes (in friendly green type) from experts and those who have gone before you. The quotes tell you what agencies are looking for in a portfolio, how others have found success at this, what things you can do to streamline the process, etc. 54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
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The definitive resource,
By Sharon Glick - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Designing a Digital Portfolio (Voices) (Paperback)
For several months I searched for an appropriate textbook for a course that I was developing. Several days prior to the deadline for the course outline, "Designing a Digital Portfolio " was published. After reading the book, I realized this was the authoritative text for anyone in a creative field. The book asks and answers all the essential questions. It is perfect for the technological savvy multimedia programmer or for any artist with limited technology expertise. I urge anyone who is even considering developing a digital portfolio to buy this book. Without qualification, this is the most valuable book on the marketMultimedia Portfolio Instructor/Art Institute/Art Institute Online 33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb resource for a wide variety of portfolio formats,
By Liz Birkholz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Designing a Digital Portfolio (Voices) (Paperback)
If you set can aside the near 100% focus on digital media (though it is excellent for that kind of format) and not hyperventilate in feeling like you need to come up with Flash or DVDs after reading this, it offers solid points on portfolio content, whatever format you choose.It covers what should go in, what should not go in, how much should go in, how/if to deal with process pieces, storyboarding, thematic ties to pull a disparate portfolio together, and sage advice on basics like the kinds of written copy you want to include, such as design briefs, problem statements, and tag lines. It's my favorite book for this effort right now. My husband's, too. I have to pry it off his desk. It's also savvy when it comes to marketing, so I think it will have a long shelf life in my library for the days when I need to market myself on other things besides landing a job, like marketing my firm. It has some printed web site design examples which offer visual eye inspiration for printed page layout. It even has great image workflow tips, towards preserving the best image quality with the least needed resolution, that are comprehensible to the lay person as well as meaningful to someone with a high degree of digital photographic processing background. |
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