Building Your Design Portfolio

Understanding how to build your portfolio and present your work as a creative freelancer or designer is important in gaining those larger clients and obtaining work that YOU want to do. I have had the opportunity to hire graphic designers, copywriters, web designers, and social media mangers for my clients.   

In this short class, we will go over the basics of portfolio building, things to consider when presenting your work. When I sort through hundreds of amazing portfolios, many way better than my own, I have learned what works and what does not. We will then put one together using Canva, a simple portfolio that includes a cover page and three projects. We will then explore an online option that will help you get in front of potential clients.

So let's start building!

• Class Preview
• Portfolio Basics
• Tips for Displaying Your Projects
• Cover Page
• Refining Our Cover Page
• Finishing Our Cover Page
• Presenting Our First Project Peice
• Layout of Our Project
• Adding Additional Pages to Our First Project
• Let's Wrap Up Presenting Our First Project
• Working with Other Project Presentation Styles
• Working With Mock-ups
• Finishing Our Portfolio
• An Online Portfolio Option
• Creating Our Online Portfolio from Our PDF Version