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PORTFOLIO HOW-TO SERIES

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR ONLINE AND OFFLINE PORTFOLIO First article in a series of many that will show you how to properly plan, layout, and market your portfolio.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO BUILD UP YOUR SAMPLES WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (article 2) If you are in a situation where you don't have any professional samples to place into your portfolio, then you obviously have a lot of work to do.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - GATHER ALL OF YOUR PORTFOLIO SAMPLES TOGETHER (article 3) - Now it is time to put it all together. So how are you going to choose which samples to place in your portfolio?

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - SHOP SMART FOR A PORTFOLIO CASE (article 4) Fourth article in the portfolio series. Find out how to shop smart for a portfolio case.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR WORK ... MAKING SLIDES (article 5) Fifth article in the portfolio series. Find out how to photograph your samples for slides and your portfolio.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PREPARE YOUR PORTFOLIO FOR DROP-OFF OR SHIPPING (article 6) Sixth article in series. Many employers will not have time to see you in person, in this case many will ask for you to drop-off or mail your portfolio.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - GET PREPARED TO PLACE YOUR FOLIO ONLINE (article 7) Seventh article in series. It is important to have a portfolio online, findout why.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - DIGITIZE AND OPTIMIZE YOUR PORTFOLIO IMAGES FOR WEB USE (article 8) Eighth article in series. Learn how to get your images ready for the web.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PICK ONE IMAGE TO REPRESENT YOUR PORTFOLIO AND YOUR BIZ (article 9) Ninth article in series. This week we are going to discuss how to choose one image to represent your professional identity, more specifically how to design your logo.

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PORTFOLIO SERIES - ARTICLE 10 - GATHER INFO AND WRITE YOUR RESUME OR PROFILE This is the tenth article in The AFWork Portfolio Series. This article covers how to make the most of an online profile or resume.

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EXTERNAL PORTFOLIO ARTICLES

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Artist Portfolio Guidelines - This article feature ideas on how to create a successful artist portfolio and how to present your portfolio to galleries or to anyone. The information is useful to anyone in working in fine art or commercial art. It will help all photographer's, painter's and other artists that might one day have to create artist portfolio or present there artworks to a gallery.

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Choosing a Graphic Design Portfolio Case - After you've decided what will go in your graphic design portfolio (and created those pieces if you're just starting out) you'll need to decide how best to present those samples. Portfolio cases can be plain or fancy.

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How To Build a Great Portfolio (For Game Designers)- Recruiters, human resource managers, and others who are involved in hiring employees for a game company will tell you that every job opening can elicit hundreds of resumes. This means that an artist aspiring to join a game development team needs to make the best portfolio possible, because as the saying goes, “You only have one chance to make a good first impression.”

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Organizing Graphic Design Portfolios - Once you have your samples and your portfolio case, the next step is deciding how to best present those pieces within your portfolio.

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Building Your Portfolio Part 1: The Print Portfolio - Believe it or not, whether you work in web or not, as a designer or something else, everyone should have a print portfolio.

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Building Your Portfolio Part 2: The Web Version - Your online portfolio will contain some of the same material as your print portfolio, but include content, images and animations specific to the Web.

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Building Your Portfolio Part 3: Putting it All Together - Building your portfolio requires outside input--from books, other sites, professionals, colleagues and even friends. See our list of resources for a guaranteed polished presentation.

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Seven Things Recruiters Look For in Your Website Portfolio - Maureen Nelson explains from her interview with a leading recruiter what major elements should be present in any online portfolio.

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Portfolios - After reading this article, you will be able to:Describe key features of a successful portfolio, Use various techniques of portfolio development to enhance your job search and obtain feedback for ongoing professional development, and Assemble your own personal portfolio

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The Killer Portfolio - Part 1 - Every fresh and sparkling artist faces the same problems when starting out: where to start? what to do?--who to schmooze? The only place to start is in your studio creating art, doing whatever you want to do. But artists need people who will pay money for their stuff.

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The Killer Portfolio - Part 2: Revenge of the Killer Portfolio - In this second edition, I would like to answer some more specific portfolio questions. For example, what is an artist statement/biography? Where do I get slides? How do I put it all together? These are important things to know about a portfolio. Here is a simple guide to assembling the staples of a portfolio.

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Your Job Skills Portfolio: Giving You an Edge in the Marketplace - This article will show you how to develop your job-search portfolio, key elements to consider in developing your job-search portfolio, and the best resources to explore job-search portfolios in more depth.

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Illustration Portfolio Tips - Tips for how to choose illustrations for your portfolio, how to put together your portfolio and how to present your portfolio.

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Online Portfolio Layouts - Here are four different layouts for the same online portfolio. Use these ideas, or come use them to come up for inspirations for your own portfolio.

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Portfolio Creation Tips - The following material summarizes how one might construct a portfolio.

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Graphic Design Portfolio - Times are tough. It's not easy getting — or holding — a job. Interviews are partly about you, and mostly about your graphic design portfolio. Your design portfolio is your place to shine, as long as you know the basics.

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Web design in Portfolios - There are several different options for showcasing your Web design skills online.

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Creating Your Online Portfolio - Part 1: Getting Started - So, you've decided to take the plunge and market your art. Congratulations! You've just entered a highly competitive arena. What can you do to stand out from the crowd? Create a spectacular online portfolio.

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Creating Your Online Portfolio - Part 2: An Artist's Approach - Think like an Artist -- Not a Programmer

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Tips for presenting your brand and graphic design portfolio to its best advantage - Tips for presenting your brand and graphic design portfolio to its best advantage, from Tracy Turner of The Creative Group.

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Presenting Your Ideas - The portfolio, simply put, is a carrying case or presentation case containing your ideas. Employers in the advertising industry want to see that you know how to sell a product-- that you're an advertising thinker . If you mention in your resume a project or campaign you worked on, you should be proud enough to show it and prove it.

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Creating a Portfolio - In some areas of photography - commercial and industrial, advertising, social and editorial - it's important that you have a good quality portfolio of your best work ready to show people.

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How To Create a Portfolio of Your Work (for Photographers) - Creating a portfolio of your work is one of the most important things you can accomplish as a photographer. Unfortunately, relatively few photographers create portfolios because they find the process daunting or think their work is not good enough to be included in a portfolio.

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Preparing Your Portfolio for College Admissions - Making the choice to major in the visual arts for some students and parents can be a tough decision. Not only do you have to go through the academic admissions requirements, but also you have the added pressure of submitting a portfolio of the student's creative work. The portfolio is often the breaking point for many in the application process and for some it may even keep them from completing their application.

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What Goes in Beginner's Graphic Design Portfolios - You need samples to get the job but you need the job in order to have samples. That old Catch-22 doesn't have to stop you from putting together a good graphic design portfolio. It just requires a bit more creativity.

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How to Find a Photographer to Build Your Portfolio - Thousands of photographers will want to take your photograph, but finding the best person to shoot your photos is key to your future success in the modeling industry.

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Build a Portfolio Site - Promote your skills online
Build a portfolio website and show your CV to the world! Whether you're a freelance designer, struggling artist, independent plumber or unicycling juggling clown, hawking for work can be a soulless experience.

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Graphic Design Portfolios for Desktop Publishing - Why Use Portfolios and What Goes In Them. Desktop publishing or graphic design portfolios should be more than just a few samples thrown into a folder. Potential employers or clients use examples of your work to help determine whether they want to hire you. The samples you choose to display and how you present them can affect whether or not you get the job.

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Putting Together a Portfolio - Most of us think about portfolios being used by artists to show their work to potential employers. These days' portfolios can be used for just about any field of work. A portfolio can help you demonstrate or 'prove' your skills to an employer during an interview.

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The Professional Portfolio: It's not just for artists anymore! (DOC) - If you want to begin a career (as opposed to just getting 'a job'), you need to assemble a professional portfolio of your work.

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Build a Career Portfolio to Highlight Your Accomplishments - Gathering evidence of your day-to-day successes on the help desk can help you promote your career. Take the advice of one TechRepublic contributor and build a career portfolio to showcase your recognitions and achievements.

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How To Build a Portfolio - If you have a home-based business, you probably need to know how to build a portfolio to display your work.

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Questions to Ask as You Build Your Career Portfolio - As you assemble your career portfolio, think about these questions. They'll help you focus on what's ahead of you--and remember, only you can provide the answers.

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The Portfolio - Creatively Showcasing Your Skills

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