asor
January 7, 2018, 5:10am
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Mrog:
There is no industry standard really. And everybody will tell you something slightly different.
And another tip: After being sucessfull with your ~30 page portfolio bring a longer one to the interview that has ALL the content. Most people in the interview will appreciate that you will show them something that they haven’t seen before and if you are there in person you can guide much better through a greater depth of work. Are they asking a lot of process questions? Show them all the process stuff they haven’t seen before. Are they mostly interested in pretty pictures? Show them all the pretty renderings of the final thing and skip through the other stuff.
Mrog, thank you for this! Your explanation of the length issues is super helpful - a lot of the background administrative stuff is pretty opaque to students & getting a better idea of who looks at our portfolios and what their process is is super useful. Totally makes sense that more polished pieces would make more sense to non-designers. In your experience, is there any difference between companies that have a larger group of senior industrials designers vs. say, a smaller start up where maybe there’s only one or two designers? Are the smaller companies more likely to show portfolios to more of their business or engineering team?