Portfolio too bad for getting a job?

Hi Melanie

Welcome to the core77 boards.

I’m just giving your portfolio a quick glance through on my phone while on an airplane. I say this because you never know where a hiring manager will be when they look at your work so it helps if your slides are geared for easy viewing and absorption. You have some good graphic design skills and color sense and that is a great asset when making a portfolio.

For me your portfolio was missing 3 things:

  1. expanded process. Show me in a visually impact illy way how you developed an idea. The insights that lead you to a solution. Who the solution is intended and what is the problem it is solving.
  2. sketching. You need to show much more of it and in the projects not isolated out.
  3. complex surfacing. It could be because I was on my phone but I didn’t see anything in the way of complex surfacing and form work. Not overly detailed mind you, but I look for things like curvature continuous surfaces.

All these things are easy to fix and asking for input is a great way to get insight on what to work on.