Re: Portfolio.
First of all, I emailed the guy who wrote the ‘Forget Style’ post to tell him how much you guys loved it. He wrote back and said he’s glad to hear it. 🙂 This is also the guy who is going to be critiquing my portfolio. I’m stoked.
Second, I researched a ton of paper last night, and then emailed my boss for his opinion. Dude knows his paper. I got into work today and he gave me his feedback and said that he put some leftover 12×18 100lb coverstock on my desk to look at. My boss is the best. I took home a sheet to play with and he was just like “okay!”
Then tonight, I ordered two different reams of paper… a ream of 60lb and 80lb cover stock gloss paper (since cover tends to be thicker than text, and while I want this to be NICE, I have to be a little budget-conscious). I’m having them shipped to work, and they should be there in a week or two. Boss has already okayed my printing after hours on our industrial laserjet, since I don’t need that many prints for this project.
The binder that I have is a 24 page 11×14 Itoya Art Profolio, which isn’t as nice as some of the other books, but with my 40% off coupon at Michael’s, it was a quarter of the price of the nicer books. And while I could try to make my own book, I’m a little terrified of completely screwing up and ruining paper. Making a cover? Binding stuff? AAHH. Plus it needs to lay flat! How! At work we do these awesome booklets on 11×17 paper, but folded, they’re only 11×8.5, which seems like a waste… .. …. but a heck of a lot easier…
ANYWAY…
This leaves the problem of “I’m only allowed to have 15 pages” of art in a 24 page book that does not permit the addition or removal of pages. I can include a cover page, TOC (so overkill omg), contact page, thanks page, and a bio page, but that still leaves four pages, and it always looks so tacky to have blank pages at the end of a book…
It has been suggested that division pages could work, but part of me is not wanting to lump my art into specific sections… mostly because I would be worried that I was miscategorizing things, and that would make me look like an idiot.
I could use one of them to hold postcards, which I guess is a thing that illustrators give out as promotional material for their work along with business cards…
This is hard.
But at least I know how to use InDesign thanks to my job, so it will be fun to lay this sucker out.