Portfolio Design, 3rd Edition

Harold Linton

Praise for Portfolio Design, 3rd Edition

"Those who don't have college tutors to help them prepare or update their traditional portfolio should look at Portfolio Design by Harold Linton."
—idfx Magazine

Overview —Table of Contents — Preface

The “bible” of portfolio design and production is now in its third edition, revised and expanded to include essential information on the digital and multimedia direction of portfolios today.

Whether you work in architecture, urban planning, landscape or interior design, a finely tailored portfolio is the most important element to include in your application for graduate school, a design grant or competition, or to bring to a job interview. In addition to showing you how to assemble a portfolio that will display your talents and qualifications to the best advantage, the third edition of Portfolio Design adds a chapter on digital strategies, discussing all the elements necessary to bring your work together in a digital format. Also new to this edition is commentary and analysis of selected student portfolios by three experienced professionals who offer unique insights to help you develop your own portfolio.

From formats, bindings, and cases to reproduction techniques, content, style, sequencing, multimedia, and the latest in promoting yourself on the Internet, Portfolio Design addresses every aspect of portfolio planning and production. Three-hundred samples nearly half of them new to this edition drawn from a wide array of current student and professional portfolios, both print and electronic, illustrate many and varied graphic design alternatives to demonstrate what will capture the reviewer’s attention—and secure you an offer. Portfolio pointers from industry professionals and educators complement the practical advice given by Harold Linton, who has taught portfolio design to generations of students.

About the Author

Harold Linton is chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and former assistant dean of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan. For over two decades he has designed and taught courses on portfolio design for all levels of students of architecture, art, and design in the United States and abroad. As acting professor of design in 1997 at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, he was cofounder of the first graduate program in color design in Europe, and he created new courses in portfolio design at the School of Architecture, Technological University, Stockholm, Sweden.

A graduate of Syracuse and Yale University, Professor Linton has written eight books on color, visual communications, and design. His own artwork is in the collection of numerous galleries and museums, and in public and private collections throughout the United States. He has lectured at colleges, universities, and professional design organizations in the United States and abroad, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology; College of Design, Iowa State University; College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University; and the AIAS Forum.

ISBN 10: 0-393-73095-6
2004 / 176 pages
23 color / 250 b/w illus. / paperback