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Last minute M.ARCH I portfolio review!

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Hi everyone!

Hope you're having a great holiday. I am about to send out my portfolio next week for several M.arch 1 programs and I would love some last minute advice! I still have to tweak small details like the page numbering. 

Portfolio Draft

Thanks and happy new year!

 
Dec 29, 13 12:02 pm
observant

Nice job.  I thought this was M.Arch. as in NO previous arch experience.  Clearly, you have a BA or BS in Architecture.

Name on cover, more so than back cover.  I suppose you could do both.

I like the breadth of the work.

One thing I noticed is that your convention of RH pagination skips a time or two, to no pagination.  Keep it consistent.  Use RH consistently, or just paginate both, but I prefer RH at all times.

Very austere inside cover page and table of contents; very different from the sometimes saturated remainder of the portfolio.  Why not use the inside to describe the front and rear covers?  Many publications do that.  Also, some color or a box for the contents.  Just brainstorming.

Cube - overhead view is well done!

Pages 4 and 5 - a little too much for my taste, especially page 4, and could use more white space

Pages 6 and 7 - is a little tightening up possible without losing content?

Page 9 - I see the division as columnar, yet what you put above concept sketches belongs more with B ... can you fix that?

Pages 13 and 14 - same comment as 4 and 5 (or are portfolios these days tending toward the fuller look?)

Pages 15 and 16 - captivating use of color

Trendwatching Office - pace and spacing is comfortable

Page 22 - too stark, almost matching the inside cover and TOC - can an exhibit with a different color background be moved here as a lead-in?

Toward end of portfolio - a possible 2 page spread of photography or drawings you have done?

There's a lot there showing you know what you're doing.  I would just reorganize and change the pacing or patterning a little.

Dec 29, 13 12:51 pm  · 
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back_forth

Thanks a lot for the detailed advise observant. My background is in interior design so I have some exposure to architecture but not a degree in the discipline itself. It's nice to hear that the work comes off more architectural than interiors/decorative.

BTW what do you mean by RH pagination? 

Also, I would love  to add some more drawings but the page limit is 30 pages without accounting for covers and table of contents. 

I agree with the table of contents, I will  take another stab at it. 

Thanks again!

Dec 29, 13 1:11 pm  · 
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observant

RH = right hand.

And not just the TOC, but the inside cover immediately upon opening, too.

Good luck!  Let us know.

Dec 29, 13 1:36 pm  · 
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