I printed mine at home on my handy canon i950 which does print full bleed.

I made sure to credit all others involved with any of the work in my portfolio

those linoleum block prints are very nice NoSleep.

Thanks. The prof. considered the work "too cerebral"; everything was based on a 2/3 ratio.

Any crit?

NoSleep -

Isn't A4 etc dimensioned by the golden ratio?

Thank you :) I applied to a bunch of schools because I was afraid I wasn't good enough to get into most of them, so I wanted to increase my chances of getting in somewhere. Here they are, in order of preference:

University of Cincinnati
University of Texas Austin
University of Illinois Chicago
Georgia Tech
University of Houston (Accepted 2/21/07)
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University of Nevada Las Vegas
University of Colorado Denver
Washington University St. Louis
University of Texas San Antonio
University of Washington Seattle



Why can't I preview my post?

May be. I still had margins in A4.

Dream:

What's your #1?

I went to a little copy shop in Austin to get my portfolio done. To get the full-bleed effect, I had them print on regular-sized 8 1/2" x 11" and cut it down to something like 8 1/4" x 10 3/4". I saved a ton of money that way and nobody can tell it's smaller than standard paper size.

full bleed is doable.

most HP printers do it now, although they are very inaccurate about it. they enlarge what you're printing by about 5%, so part of what you wanted to print will be cut off, and it will be a little different every time.

kinko's does full bleed but they just print it on a bigger sheet of paper and cut it down

lulu does full bleed but they have serious issues with their trimming, i.e. there will usually be a white stripe at top and / or bottom, and then you'll complain and they'll refund your money

EPSON R2400 can do incredible full bleed prints...

I've been very happy with the quality of the full-bleed prints on my Epson R260.

Outside Dream:

Since you're in the same boat I am in on non-arch undergrad, have you finished the prereq's for UT admissions (Phys I & II and Calc)?

I have a BS degree, which is a little less liberal-artsy. I've taken engineering physics I & II and calculus I and II and advanced statistics and a variety of other horrible classes where you're doing a page of math calculations with no idea what you're doing, why you're doing it, and what it means in the real world.

On the other hand, I've never taken any sort of drawing/design/studio class...Isn't that a prereq for some schools?

Most of the time "no" because they want you to learn their way of design/drawing.

It looks like you're in the clear on prereq. By the way, great drawings, especially w/o any training.

i printed my portfolio with some bleeds on the epson r1800 (the little brother of the r2400) and was really happy with it.

i did have to do a bunch of finagling to get things to align correctly, but once i got it set up i just saved it as a preset in my print dialogue and was good to go.

the pdf version i posted doesn't show the full bleeds as printed unfortunately.

Hey Nosleep... i am getting a broken link on your portfolio

I was able to print mine with full bleed at a printer, but would have done it my self if i could have. The printer cut my pages all wrong and they had to redo them, but it turned out good in the end. I paid 20$ a book, 36 pages bound.

MCTwist

Repost:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/dca97bea-3ce6-4f47-9396-f33d70abd84c/PortfolioDist

C'mon other M.Arch II'ers, the game is basically over. Spill yer GUTS!!

wow neat,
thats a really impressive set of works...
lots of your projects have similar concepts with some of my projects but I think your presentation is way better.
my favorite project is the viaduct.

where are you going for fall 2007?

thanks sirge, It looks like I'm going to be deciding between Yale and Berkeley....

applied:

University of Houston
University of Texas at Austin
University of Oregon
Glasgow School of Art
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Delft University of Technology

these are all really helpful! i've been coming up with ideas to start with on the portfolio for 2008 admissions, and it is nice to see other people's creative modes...

that said, are there any more non-arch portfolios....some of the ones on here arent loading :(

tumbles

I seem to remember a sandcastle...

Question to anyone who can answer it...

one of my projects for my portfolio (non arch, woot woot) involves adapting a paper i wrote on the PRADA store in NYC and doing it visually, using some of the original paper (hope you are following me here). when i wrote the paper, i loved the idea i had about the store, and hated that i even if it was a great paper, it would have been much more efficient to cut straight to the chase and show it, not describe it.

the question: it ok for me to use pictures obtained online, or from books, though it might be hard to get good copies to work with? i am planning on using photos from the store and then chopping, drawing, and otherwise re-imagining them to demonstrate the ideas from my paper. i would think it would be fine as long as i fully cite the original image.

am i wrong?

very good point....hmmm


is this a common problem?

For an academic project, it should be fine to appropriate some images from online and books as long as credit is given. It would be preferable if they were from someone whom you could contact to give you permission. To this end, check out the Stock Exchange to see if anyone there has posted stuff you could use. Stock Exchange is a free stock photo site, so it has high resolution images, and you automatically have permission to use them, just give credit where credit is due.

i just signed up for that, but alas, no PRADA....im gonna look into contacting people who have photos listed...if not, i'll just cite them appropriately...or take my own.

thank you all for sharing your work....

Like many others, here's my portfolio. I am a recent graduate from a liberal arts college where i majored in Art History. I have little to now real architectural experience, thus I'd be going into the 4+ year M.Arch program. I'm applying to Columbia, Parsons, CCA, CUDenver, and UNM. Compared to the four other portfolios I've discovered linked on this forum, mine appears very different in style and content. Not sure if its a good or bad thing. Please let me know your thoughts, the more critcal the constructive of a process. Thank you all for your time and feedback.

(3.5 meg to keep detail - might take a sec or two to load)
http://abtreeson.googlepages.com/COMPENDIUM.pdf

Ohhh, on a final note, my GREs are low 1200s, anyone know where this falls with regard to my choose schools?

You are fine with your GRE score. I wouldn't worry about retaking it.

Blaise
Thanks for sharing it, and reviving an old thread.

I think you;ll fare well. Much of your work lends it self well to Architecture. You have this going for you, but there is alerg quota for non-arch majors, usually. I guess you know they will not really read it, so you maybe can afford to lose some of that text. Perhaps create a text box or creative way to seperate it from the photos and work. Perhaps you have very full pages as well. Using the 'rule of Thirds' you can open the pages up and allow for a bit more space. When two images come together there is a line of differing photos or scans....maybe that wants to be treated some how, so it doesn't look so "collage" - ish. It could afford to be shorter as well. I always use the sandwich theory....

1Good,
2Fair,
3Better,
4Best

If there are other threads like this one with working links, let me know. Thanks.