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Portfolio Critique - graduate school

442wrl

Hi all,

I'm looking for constructive feedback - I am unsure of how else to go about it. Here is the link to my portfolio:

http://issuu.com/442lrw/docs/portfolio

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you!

 
Dec 21, 11 10:29 pm
derekmc825

Hey, so I'm not a huge fan of your graphics/layout. It seems way to busy and thus you should have less stuff on each page and more white space.

Dec 21, 11 10:48 pm  · 
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442wrl

Would you recommend moving some of the items to a new page, or to just delete them? I had a feeling it was too busy, but I feel like I do not have enough graphics to place them on a new page. Thank you for your comment, by the way!

Dec 21, 11 10:55 pm  · 
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byen01

Your headings are way too close to the edge of the page. I'd also suggest white space. That perpetual machine page especially looks extremely cramped; scale down your images. If you're finding that you're not willing to scale down some images a great deal, you can at least gain some white space by bumping your text font down 1 pt size. Don't use course numbers (ED11A, etc.); use course names instead. I'd also put the school's name, rather than the location. If, in your ToC, you're going to do bold then regular, carry that through throughout your portfolio (bold each project name). Are your description texts at different font sizes? I don't care for the Collage GSAPP page, and I think it's possible to integrate that into the site/stitch page. To a lesser extent, I also don't really care for the Pedagogical Paradigm project.

Collaborative Research Studio: those hand drawn perspective drawings look really off in terms of perspective.

Heidi Weber Gallery: the bottom right most photo: can you crop it in a way that it'd be from the same angle as the top right photo? It's disorienting.

Stormwater: how are pedestrians partaking in the stormwater treatment process. It's not like their foot traffic is somehow activating filters. Change partake to, like, view.

Single Residency: Is that site plan actually 1"=200' in your portfolio? If not, take it off.

Dec 21, 11 11:31 pm  · 
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byen01

Also, who's that foxy stock photo lady walking past Itzhak Perlman?

Dec 21, 11 11:33 pm  · 
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byen01

One more thing (hah) Collab Reserach Studio: it's a bit weird to have section cut lines on a spread following the sections themselves.

Spatial Mechanical: first sentence, get rid of "such as Bullitt". It's redundant if you're going to say that your class decided to choose Bullitt in the next sentence.

Dec 21, 11 11:36 pm  · 
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442wrl

byen01 - Thanks for critiquing! Regarding the stock photo...is she someone famous? :P

Dec 21, 11 11:57 pm  · 
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morgan2sims

is it just me or the link's not working?

Dec 25, 11 5:47 am  · 
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442wrl

morgan2sims - I took off the portfolio a few days ago, I'm sorry ><

Dec 26, 11 4:52 am  · 
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