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colindo

I have some questions regarding my portfolio for getting into graduate school. I created a portfolio for employment and it has seemed to work pretty good for that purpose. The link for my current portfolio is below.

http://issuu.com/colindo/docs/portfolio/3

I realize that I should change some aspects of this portfolio for getting into graduate school. I have to make some updates to it anyway (add some professional work and a few other personal projects I have been working on over the past year), but I would also like some input from you guys. What is it missing that graduate schools would expect to see? What can be taken away from it? any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 
Oct 21, 12 3:49 pm
Dima Srouji

Good portfolio. I would just say 50 something pages might be too much. Maybe too much text on some pages. I really like that you show process! Some really nice sketches are always exciting :)

Oct 26, 12 3:22 pm  · 
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snail

Generally seems like a clean portfolio, but a lot of it visually reads as being kind of bland and flat. You should take some more risks and have some more bold moves that stand out. There's also too much repetition - one particularly bad moment is on p. 48 where you have those two photographs competing with each other. If you made one of them big and the other little, and maybe inset within the big photo somehow, it would instantly have more punch. You can ignore technical requirements like cut lines and labeling your drawing views (ex "section A") where taking them out would make your work visually cleaner. I definitely agree about adding in more process and sketches. You can take out some of the more technical drawings (plans, elevations, etc.) that make sense for a professional portfolio but may not be adding new information in the context of your ideas. Leave some of them, though, to show that you have that kind of experience - just don't have as many. A personal quibble is that some of your current diagrams seem kind of derivative of the work of certain popular contemporary architects, but I don't know how much schools will care about that. I would worry more about telling a compelling story than about length - mine was ~40 pages and I don't think it hurt me. The skill bars in the back seem cheesy. Also of course you should change the busy backgrounds behind some of your text. Add in some more personal stuff, like artwork, if you have it. Right now I think you could get in a mid-level school but not a top school. Oh, and cut the text in half - show more and tell less.

Oct 26, 12 8:26 pm  · 
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