Portfolio Prep and Production

– Introduction
– Five Word Exercise
– Share Portfolio Examples
– Typography Lecture
– INDD Fundamentals
– In-class Work Time

Due Today: Five Word Exercise & 3 Portfolio Examples

Homework:
(1) Typeface Pairing Exercise
(2) Read 'The Crystal Goblet' pg 11-17 / Typesetting Exercise
(3) Begin gathering your projects/images

Daily Designers (Visual Systems): Studio Airport, Pentagram

– Review Exercises 1 and 2
– Layout Lecture
– Poster Deconstruction
– INDD Tutorial: Basic Layout, Grids, Master Pages, Columns
– Hierarchy & Composition Exercise
– Introduce HW: Contact Sheet

Due Today: Type Pairing, Typesetting Exercise, Poster Deconstruction

Homework:
(1) Contact Sheet
(2) Hierarchy & Composition Exercise
(3) Start gathering your resume text!

Daily Designers (Book Designers): Joost Grootens, Neil Donnelly, Julia Born

– Share Heirarchy and Composition Exercises
– Books Lecture
– 1:1 Contact Sheet Walkthrough

Due Today: Contact Sheet & Hierarchy & Composition Exercise

Homework:
(1) Mood Board
(2) Book Map
(3) 3 Design Directions

Daily Designers: Julia Hasting at Phaidon, Ben Denzer, Peter Mendelsund, Verso Books

– Intro to Grids
– Book Binding
– Resume and Cover Letter Introduction
– Susan Andersen Presentation
– Review Mood Boards & Concepts

Due Today: Mood Board, Book Map, & Three Portfolio Directions

Homework:
- Draft Resume & Cover Letter
- Finalize Book Map
- Refine Three Design Directions

Daily Designers (RISD GD Thesis):
–Kaela Kennedy
–Glikeriya Shotanova
–Lake Buckley
–Cem Eskinazi

– Demo image Sizes, batch editing, etc.
– Individual Meetings
– Take Website Portfolio Survey

Due Today: Three Concept Directions

Homework:
- Resumes/Cover Letters (Print for Tuesday)
- Work on full layout (placeholder text and captions is OK)
- Print your progress, bring into class!
– Read "Thinking with Type" by Ellen Lupton
– (Suggested) "Detail in Typography" by Jost Hochuli

Daily Designers (Editorial): Chloe Scheffe, Matt Willey

– Covers!
– Individual Meetings
– Work on refining portfolio system

Homework:
- Continue to work on full layout
(placeholder text and captions is OK)

Daily Designers (Dutch Modernism): Karel Martens, Irma Boom

– Web Portfolio Best Practices
– Guest Lecturer (Vishakha Ruhela)
– Individual Meetings

Due Today: Make Refinements to your Layouts and Graphic System

Homework:
- FULL PORTFOLIO DRAFT
- Flush out your projects and layouts before Monday in preparation for the guest crit!
- Prepare to talk about your work for Monday

Daily Designers (UK Type): Fraser Muggeridge, John Morgan, OK-RM

– Guest Critics from NBBJ (CLASS ON ZOOM)

Due Today: Full Portfolio First Draft

Homework:
- Start making edits based on crit feedback
- Work on Resume & Cover Letters

Daily Designers (Exhibition and Experience Design):
Dome Collective, 2 x 4, Isometric Studio

– Discuss Guest Crit Feedback
– 1:1's, Review Two Cover Design Options
– Photobooth Setup & Sessions (bring your models/works to photograph!)

Due Today: Refinements based on crit feedback

Homework:
- Finalize Resume and Cover Letters
- Refinements to Portfolio Layout
- Edit and include any new photos from session
- Make sure all projects are in!

Daily Designers (Graphic Design and Film): Mike Mills (made Beginners, 20th Century Women, and C'mon C'mon), Charles and Ray Eames, Abbas Kiarostami

– 1:1 reviews

Due Today: Cover Letter, Resume

Homework:
- Cover Letter Content Finalized
- Continue Portfolio Refinements!

– Printing demo
– File Compression and eBooks
– Last Review Before Final!

Homework: Bring all final documents to class ready to present your work
- Print and trim final portfolio (binding optional)
- Print final resume and cover letter
- Export your final Portfolio PDF