Building your portfolio - Student Spotlight

We are in the 2nd week of a new module and I've said it before, I'll say it again. Getting a job in the field of graphic design is very competitive and many students will only have their student projects to put in their portfolio. I challenge all of you to bring your A game for every school project. There is a big difference between getting the assignment done so you can get an OK grade on it and approaching the assignment as if it's a portfolio piece. The students that do great work in school are the ones that will get jobs upon graduation.

I just finished teaching print production and color theory last module which is a class that focuses on understanding color and how to use it in printing and design. The midterm project was to design color palettes for various interior spaces. Students had to write about the business, list the color by pantone number and represent graphically how the colors would work together.

Jordan Butler is a student on the Orem campus and he approached each of the pages as a piece for his portfolio. Here are some examples of his midterm project.



The final project was a presentation on a color which included marketing, packaging, global meanings of a color etc. I suggested powerpoint or InDesign as a multiple page document. Again, Jordan took the assignment to a new level and created an actual book on the color yellow. Below are some of the pages.





Great work Jordan!!