Portfolio of Work
Important Info
Weighting 30%
Due
Week 8 Monday
9th September
Description
A portfolio is a collection of work that showcases skills, accomplishments, and creative capabilities. For a graphic designer, a portfolio is a representation of their body of work that can include samples of designs, illustrations, branding projects, and other relevant pieces. Graphic designers use portfolios as a means to demonstrate their expertise, creativity, and versatility to potential clients, employers, or collaborators. Portfolios can be physical and digital.
We will be working on a digital portfolio that captures class projects as well as personal projects and processes. This will support you to show your skills, and knowledge and understanding, including visual techniques, problem-solving and meeting the requirements of project briefs. To make your portfolio extra strong, consider not only what is included but use your style and layout to demonstrate your own personal brand and artistic perspective.
Things to include
Class projects: These should be included in your portfolio. Each week that you work on these, there will be instructions on what to include but the general rule is to capture everything that you have done.
Personal Sketches & Skills: If you do any personal sketches, plans, or idea development beyond what we do in class, put this in your portfolio.
Research: You might do personal research on Principles of Design, Elements of Art or extra information that helps you understand Graphic Design, styles visual choices, audiences or design briefs. If you do this, make sure to capture it in your portfolio.
Keung, L. (2023) 'How to Make the Best Magazine Cover Design' URL
Annotations: We will do some of these in class, but you can always find images, advertisements and graphic design work that you like and annotate these. This can help you demonstrate learning standards.
APA References: When you source inspirational images or do research, you should make sure to APA reference these to show where they came from.
What will I need to make my Portfolio?
Information on how to create your Google Site is here.
Portfolio Checklist
Use this document to ensure you have included the required elements in your portfolio.
To understand how you will be marked, see the rubric provided on Google classroom.
Additional Information
Referencing Information
For support with APA referencing visit our class site resource.
Need Help? Just drop by the teacher librarian’s desk in our library
Declaration of Original Work
By submitting this work to Google classroom under your name and student number, you are acknowledging the following:
The work that I have attached is my own work and has not been submitted for assessment before.
I have kept a copy of this assignment and all relevant notes and reference material that I used in the production of the assignment.
I have given references for all sources of information that are not my own, including the words, ideas and images of others.
I am aware that this work may be viewed by other teachers for moderation purposes.
I accept that this work may be used in college materials, advertisements or to provide examples for future classes unless I have stated otherwise.
Relationship to Unit Goals
Apply the design process to solve design problems
