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On Emotional Blackmailing/Design as Revision/On the Anxiety of Success/
And the Religious Idea of Complacent Contingent Favouritism

[PORTFOLIO]

If anything having a portfolio, for a designer is a must. Throughout my degree I thought of work as the utmost important part of my creative process.
I have most recently learn and established a practice of labeling and archiving, which helps me in furthering my learning and being able to keep a reference of it. A dead Diary.

[WEB]

I have also created a website, which also holds a database of the books and resources I have looked into and consider of relevance to my work. This website allows me to showcase my work across different platforms and audiences. Its hard work since it need constant updating, but allows me to show my digital work effectively. There are a lot of thing I need to learn about this medium.

[IN CASE]

Casing your work is a big one, and it is true that a portfolio case, in my opinion, should have the corporate-like attitude. Minimal, unnoticed. So generic it goes unnoticed, which in the eyes of a designer is a difficult task. There should be no room for portfolio fetishizing.
Since you case has become the IBM of design, you need to make sure your layout/pages/work is arranged in a similar fashion. Ruthlessly clear and accessible.

[TEXTING]

Adding text to work is something that I have been long against in any kind of work, which is a big mistake. Your portfolio reviewer, aka potential employer, is not going to become a museum goer, standing in front of your pieces to decode them. Hi yes wake up. There needs to be a quick access point. Put your narrative in paper. Label the page, the project name, the medium and the story behind the image. This will suffice.

[SIZE]

Yes Matters. A lot. Print tests are undervalued, as well as it is exhibition time. You need to work hard to get your content right in combination with the form. In an age of mechanical reproduction{dated}Benjamin would suggest, make it big. If you need to move your head to read an image, stop it. Don't do it. Resize.

[SEQUENCE]

Think of the sequence in which your work is going to be presented. You open it, you flip the pages, you close it. You hand in the business card.

[CARD;BUSINESS]

These need to convey the vital info about you. Name. Phone number, email and position.

[GENERIC IS BOOD]

Different people look for different things. I think the winning portfolio is the one that remains generic enough to divert the attention to your work, while generating some sense of personality, aka difference, for you want to consider pieces of framework as pieces of design (They Are, with their Overt Implications). This balance is the Holy Grail or Grails. And it is also the reason or tension where the idea of Complacent Contingent Favouritism lays. It is religious because it leaves its fate to contingency, and the idea that it will line up to your favour. I.e. don't worry it's going to be fine, just keep on working... In my mind this would show an error message, I would strive for perfection, now, unless the show aims as practice as work in process, aka there is no final piece.

The reason I can't validate a form of practice that encourages work in progress is because inevitably progress leads to imperfection and experimentation, going against the tenets of finished or polished work. It is mainly a shift in sensibility-not in working/presentation practices-that validates this kind of attitude (like the magazine).

[GAD AND EMOTIONAL BLACKMAILING]

This is an easy one. Not really. Sorry, Not Sorry(Miranda Sings), is a kind of difficult attitude that is also difficult to detect, when people use their and your emotions to their advantage. Most complicated bit of this is that sometimes these attitudes are unconscious, we engage in them without necessarily knowing. If you are working towards your portfolio and a friend of yours uses their emotions to get you out of the house against your will-aka you were working towards a deadline-, this constitutes a form of you-yourself going against your will. This is a bad example, but it has to do with the idea that someone might get upset if you don't do something they wanted you to do, or they use your guilt to your advantage. In other words, they use your sensibility, and mindworkings to their advantage, as if a kind of Google Friends Product (to be patented to be sure).

*At the end of the day work needs to be there progressing. The finished is a delusion, and if you fail     to find compatible sensibility, it might be the time to start your own form of practice.