So, after seeing the staircase thread and a few other things... what are some unusual and or not so common things that are acceptable to put into portfolios? Are they okay?
Right now, I have 4 or 5 planning concepts and principles as examples (with some minor architectural work in them)... but... BUT... I'm learning solidworks, rhino and revit right now. All my planning work is done in sketchup (sketchy edge style) which I think mildly works since planning is not exact.
I wanted to do some (easy-ish) design... maybe a few pieces of furniture or a handrail or an elevator interior to showcase these newly acquired skills. I thought a whole building facade was too advantageous and I don't have the computing power or time to wait 30932948 hours to render.
Any bossmen or principals think this is a good idea? What kind of odd ball things would make you impressed that aren't the standard blobs, balsa wood models or other nuances?
first of all furniture design is not easy. second, a handrail or an elevator interior would have to be seriously fantastic to be worth looking at.
rendering skills are not necessary to get job. evidence of thinking skills is better bet. including homework-type assignments in portfolio would probably get a giggle but not so much respect, and probably you will give impression that you don't have skills employers are looking for...unless of course you actually prototype the furniture. unfortunately there is no substitute for hard work. don't bother looking for one.
Like jump said,, i say try your newly acquired skills at a decent scale, and try to find someone with the "computing power" who is willing to help u, a friend or something,, the question is, how much does a pretty handrail say about you as a designer?
I'm probably better at furniture design that I am at a lot of other things. When I use to be a three-dimensional art major for like 2-2.5 and a half years... I've had a fair amount of interest in designing and making domestic objects.
When I started college, I had gotten accepted to RISD for industrial design but I was unfortunately 15 at the time and moving out of the state was out of the question.
So, furniture and fixture design is something I have more or less always been interested in. I've done a fair amount of wood working, I like to reupholster things for fun, I've even taken classes in kyoto joinery and so on.
This wasn't a critique of my three ideas I put in but more or less a question of other than my planning work and concepts... What is acceptable to put into a portfolio that isn't a facade?
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Put it in my portfolio, baby.
So, after seeing the staircase thread and a few other things... what are some unusual and or not so common things that are acceptable to put into portfolios? Are they okay?
Right now, I have 4 or 5 planning concepts and principles as examples (with some minor architectural work in them)... but... BUT... I'm learning solidworks, rhino and revit right now. All my planning work is done in sketchup (sketchy edge style) which I think mildly works since planning is not exact.
I wanted to do some (easy-ish) design... maybe a few pieces of furniture or a handrail or an elevator interior to showcase these newly acquired skills. I thought a whole building facade was too advantageous and I don't have the computing power or time to wait 30932948 hours to render.
Any bossmen or principals think this is a good idea? What kind of odd ball things would make you impressed that aren't the standard blobs, balsa wood models or other nuances?
first of all furniture design is not easy. second, a handrail or an elevator interior would have to be seriously fantastic to be worth looking at.
rendering skills are not necessary to get job. evidence of thinking skills is better bet. including homework-type assignments in portfolio would probably get a giggle but not so much respect, and probably you will give impression that you don't have skills employers are looking for...unless of course you actually prototype the furniture. unfortunately there is no substitute for hard work. don't bother looking for one.
Like jump said,, i say try your newly acquired skills at a decent scale, and try to find someone with the "computing power" who is willing to help u, a friend or something,, the question is, how much does a pretty handrail say about you as a designer?
I'm probably better at furniture design that I am at a lot of other things. When I use to be a three-dimensional art major for like 2-2.5 and a half years... I've had a fair amount of interest in designing and making domestic objects.
When I started college, I had gotten accepted to RISD for industrial design but I was unfortunately 15 at the time and moving out of the state was out of the question.
So, furniture and fixture design is something I have more or less always been interested in. I've done a fair amount of wood working, I like to reupholster things for fun, I've even taken classes in kyoto joinery and so on.
This wasn't a critique of my three ideas I put in but more or less a question of other than my planning work and concepts... What is acceptable to put into a portfolio that isn't a facade?
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