Commercial Interior Designer Portfolio
Suggestions for a design work presentation besides a standard portfolio?
My wife is an interior designer/space planner. She has worked the past two decades with firms that did commercial, government and residential firms so she’s a very experienced designer. But during those 20 years, she’s been with only two firms. She’s now looking at a job search. When she first got out of school and started interviewing 20 years ago, you’d show up for the interview with the leather portfolio showing samples of your design work. She quickly got hired and, like I said, hasn’t switched jobs or even interviewed around very much. But now that she’s in job search mode, she’s looking for alternatives to the standard paper-blueprint-picture in the portfolio routine.
What other options can any of you suggest for displaying her work when she goes on interviews?
Good point, so you realize the times have changed and you need to keep that in mind when she is trying to be creative in showing her work. One of the big things out there is people do a cover letter, little something about them and the job they are applying for, then they create a computer disk with all there stuff on it. Some go as far as having all there items in different categories such as resume, creative work, independent work, and so on, don’t go over five categories if possible. Before interviewing call and as if they except resumes and portfolio on computer disk, some still like to do it the old fashioned way and some prefer you to send it all via email. Technology, huh? If you do it the old fashioned way, the are looking for glossy pictures of the work and usually not the original, but plan basing is nice to see. Pick one thing she did and show her thought proses in the art on how she got to the final result. People now and days have no heart and they want crisp, clean, and original. They also want to flip through your stuff quick and have generally made up their mind with in the first three to four pages of portfolio, so make those your absolute best. GL!!!
Commercial Interior Designer Portfolio
Suggestions for a design work presentation besides a standard portfolio?
My wife is an interior designer/space planner. She has worked the past two decades with firms that did commercial, government and residential firms so she’s a very experienced designer. But during those 20 years, she’s been with only two firms. She’s now looking at a job search. When she first got out of school and started interviewing 20 years ago, you’d show up for the interview with the leather portfolio showing samples of your design work. She quickly got hired and, like I said, hasn’t switched jobs or even interviewed around very much. But now that she’s in job search mode, she’s looking for alternatives to the standard paper-blueprint-picture in the portfolio routine.
What other options can any of you suggest for displaying her work when she goes on interviews?
Good point, so you realize the times have changed and you need to keep that in mind when she is trying to be creative in showing her work. One of the big things out there is people do a cover letter, little something about them and the job they are applying for, then they create a computer disk with all there stuff on it. Some go as far as having all there items in different categories such as resume, creative work, independent work, and so on, don’t go over five categories if possible. Before interviewing call and as if they except resumes and portfolio on computer disk, some still like to do it the old fashioned way and some prefer you to send it all via email. Technology, huh? If you do it the old fashioned way, the are looking for glossy pictures of the work and usually not the original, but plan basing is nice to see. Pick one thing she did and show her thought proses in the art on how she got to the final result. People now and days have no heart and they want crisp, clean, and original. They also want to flip through your stuff quick and have generally made up their mind with in the first three to four pages of portfolio, so make those your absolute best. GL!!!
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