Week 10: Portfolio Binding Idea and Final Version of Poster

A few weeks ago, I posted a couple of Binding possibilities for my portfolio. a reminder of those ideas are detailed below.

Binding Portfolio:

I have yet to decide on how I want to display my portfolio as of yet but I have researched online and few images of pre-existing porfolio binding techniques which I have found interesting which are shown below.

Accordian Style Portfolio:



The tutorial for making this style of portfolio can be found here.

Custom, Leather Portfolio:



The above portfolio grabbed my attention simply due to the look of the how it is presented which the different colour leather, giving the text a raised feel to the binding and more texture as well. The only down side is that to produce something like this would cost a considerable ammount. The portfolio image can be found here.

Main Idea:

The main Idea I have for binding my portfolio actually came to me on the way to there University today. The idea I had was re-using the fox image I used for the Business Card and CV in the design of the portfolio Pages and Portfloio Holder.

Fox Picture



Just a personal note, I actually drew this fox myself from a preference picture during 2005 when I attended College.

Portfolio:

Embossed Fox



I most likely I will be using the above Fox image on the portfolio pages as well but at 40% opacity like I did with my CV.

Portfolio Holder:

From the Ebossed image above I isolated the head, adjusted it to A4 size and added a grey rectangle to the back of the head.



I then flipped the whole image for the other side, these will make up two sides of the Portfolio Holder.

Portfolio Binding:

For binding the portfolio, I got my inspiration from our tutor and decided to use Treasury Tags.



This image was found here.

Final Poster Design:

Here is the final Poster Design which was chosen to advertise the Exhibition.



I'm particually proud of this fact from being the person who made it.

As an addition I have edited the finished version of my Business card as per our tutor's suggestion and I agree with her that the design does look better with the slight changes of the Fox graphic being lengthend and the text re-sized and then moved.