Honest critiques For College Jr. Portfolio review

[<b>]

Just a general comment, but it looks like student work.

Yeah, I know that it is student work, and there's nothing wrong with student work. Most of us have been students and did our share of them. In school, instructors are trying to teach basic design principles while engaging the students, so they're not too concerned about whether or not the projects are realistic.

After graduation, however, landing a job means portfolio pieces that don't have student project written all over it. Psycho posters and guitar magazine layouts are fine, but they scream out young, new designer who's still stuck halfway between being a kid and growing up.

Again, there's nothing wrong with being there, except when looking for a job for an employer who isn't thinking about bloody posters and grungy guitar layouts. Professional-level design usually means setting aside personal interests, aesthetic preferences and personal style in favor of designing a practical, realistic solution aimed squarely at a target audience with whom you might not have much in common.

None of this has much of anything to do with successfully including these pieces in a Junior portfolio review. I wouldn't, however, include either if I was applying for a job at most places. They're just too full of adolescent angst, and if that's where all your current school work heads, you might want to think about balancing it out with a few pieces that show that you're not as one-dimensional as these two pieces might suggest.

[Koreyh]

Originally Posted by spacecadetglows

make sure to edit it for content, too. on the cover page, you have ozzy as the "price" of darkness.

That is what the original content page says "the original price of darkness."

Do you think it was intended to be price? or should I change it?

[Koreyh]

Thanks <b> I can only use my student work, and only work from Intro to Graphic Design, Intro to Typography, and Advanced Graphic Design. So I am limited to the projects which were/are created for younger crowds. My other pieces are more structured but still read as student work.

[<b>]

Originally Posted by Koreyh

Thanks <b> I can only use my student work...

Yeah, I was sort of going off on a philosophical tangent of the kind that happens when I get too bored with what I'm doing at work. Sometimes I wish that I was still back in design school, but they'd likely throw me out for arguing with the instructors over their choice of assignments.

[spacecadetglows]

Originally Posted by Koreyh

That is what the original content page says "the original price of darkness."

Do you think it was intended to be price? or should I change it?

definitely correct it. if anything, it would show that you care enough to proofread content.

i can't tell you how many clients i have who can't spell or can't type. proofreading is an important part of the job.

[Koreyh]

Originally Posted by kemingMatters

maybe bold what GW says as they are the leading the interview.

Also how does it look in spreads?

So should I unbold White? or leave it bold as well?

[kemingMatters]

Originally Posted by Koreyh

So should I unbold White? or leave it bold as well?

Took me a second to figure out what you were asking. It turns out that I may have not explained what I meant clearly enough. So now to what I meant by that:

Bold the whole GW: + question/statement (or give it a different treatment that will make it stand higher in the hierarchical pyramid than what White says. This makes it easy to skim/locate information for the reader as they are the ones leading the interview and the questions are kind of like sub-headings.

[Koreyh]

here is the article in spreads. I've worked on it some. the ad I recreated the logo, aligned stuff better and made the title bigger. The article itself should be error free. I could be mistaken. I also worked on some of its issues.