Portfolio Design

The “bible” of portfolio design and production is now in its third edition, revised and expanded to include essential information on the digital and multimedia direction of portfolios today.

Whether you work in architecture, urban planning, landscape or interior design, a finely tailored portfolio is the most important element to include in your application for graduate school, a design grant or competition, or to bring to a job interview. In addition to showing you how to assemble a portfolio that will display your talents and qualifications to the best advantage, the third edition of Portfolio Design adds a chapter on digital strategies, discussing all the elements necessary to bring your work together in a digital format. Also new to this edition is commentary and analysis of selected student portfolios by three experienced professionals who offer unique insights to help you develop your own portfolio.

From formats, bindings, and cases to reproduction techniques, content, style, sequencing, multimedia, and the latest in promoting yourself on the Internet, Portfolio Design addresses every aspect of portfolio planning and production. Three-hundred samples nearly half of them new to this edition drawn from a wide array of current student and professional portfolios, both print and electronic, illustrate many and varied graphic design alternatives to demonstrate what will capture the reviewer’s attention―and secure you an offer. Portfolio pointers from industry professionals and educators complement the practical advice given by Harold Linton, who has taught portfolio design to generations of students. 23 color, 250 b&w illus.

Harold Linton is the director of the School of Art at George Mason University and former assistant dean of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. As acting professor of design in 1997 at the University of Art and Design (UIAH) in Helsinki, Finland, he was cofounder of the first Masters of Arts program in color design in Europe, and he created new courses in portfolio design at UIAH and lectured at the School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

A graduate of Syracuse and Yale University, Linton has written extensively on color, visual communications, architecture, and design. His own artwork is in the collection of numerous galleries and museums and in public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. He has lectured at more than one hundred colleges, universities, and professional design organizations in the United States and abroad.