Architecture and Interior Design: E-Portfolios

Unique perspective of a seasoned designer and veteran A/E industry recruiter regarding what design industry recruiters actually look for in a Design Portfolio.

Students of architecture, interior design, and landscape design need to master the art of marketing themselves via multiple print and digital formats. Design Portfolios enables students to create portfolios that serve as both evolving collections of creative solutions to design problems and evidence of their abilities to visually relay messages. Readers will learn how to create not just a collection of design work but a unique marketing tool for a successful design career.

This book talks both to the professionals who have both designed their own portfolios and those on the other side of the table who have looked at scores of portfolios, to uncover the tips and tricks that have won jobs, as well as the must-avoid moves that have lost opportunities. This book is not only a handbook for dos and don'ts; it also provides plenty of inspiration from a wide collection of portfolios, both virtual and real-life. This book asks leaders in the field about the real-world realities of presenting one's work for consideration and answers the question, "What sells and what doesn't"?

Surveys the evolution of architecture and illuminates how architects have developed their work in conversation with historical theories and projects. Accompanied by portfolios of works from each studio, deftly elucidates how these practitioners talk back to the past while conceiving and communicating their unique designs.

This book gives practical advice for the creation of the portfolio covering issues of size, storage, layout and order.

This book offers a step-by-step approach to achieving a reflective, attractive and successful representation of one's work.

This book shows you how to assemble a portfolio that will display your talents and qualifications to the best advantage; advice on formats, content, sequencing, and page layout design.

This book details the successful practices for portfolio creation by addressing portfolio creation academically and professionally. Supporting insights and examples from leading academics and architects from around the world reinforce the themes presented in this guidebook.

The complete guide to portfolio development for interior designers

Categorizes the architectural portfolio design process into a step-by-step method that you can manage and understand. Includes 400 portfolio examples from 55 designers, along with more than 50 diagrams, and a set of 48 design actions that are marked throughout. You will learn how to: identify your readership; collect, document, and catalog your work; organize your portfolio, visually structure your portfolio, design your layout, and manage both printed and digital portfolio formats .

This concise and highly visual guide explains the fundamental principles of portfolio creation, provides dos and don'ts, common mistakes, and analysis of a diverse range of both successful and unsuccessful samples. Aspirational, innovative design work is also presented alongside detailed commentary breaking down the reasons why it works. Chapters walk through the complete process in an intuitive way, covering purpose, curation, form, layout, content, and review, while providing both digital and print techniques.

A guide for mastering the complexities of effective writing in professional practice.

Graphic Design for Architects is a handbook of techniques, explanations and examples of graphic design most relevant to architects. As architectural communication increases to include more territory and components of a project, it is important for designers to be knowledgeable about the various ways in which to communicate visually.

A comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia with 200 laws, guidelines, and considerations that are important to successful design. Pairs clear explanations of design concepts with visual examples of the ideas applied in practice.

The introductory text provides a perceptive analysis of letter forms. Tschichold discusses lettering as a work of art, good and bad letters, older and recent letter forms, the use of capital and lower-case letters, word spacing, line spacing, the selection of appropriate letter styles, and the layout of groups of letters and signs.

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. At once a key theoretical document of Central European modernism between the world wars and an invaluable source of working principles for the practicing designer, this classic work enjoys the reputation among book artists that Le Corbusier's Toward a New Architecture has long held among architects.