Portfolio ideas and creation

For my portfolio I decided that I would use the same colour scheme used in the previous two personal branding exercises. However, I had to come up with ideas of how I could present this. The ideas that I came up with were: a calendar, website (will be made but didn't have time to create for this project), montage, CD, brochure, prospectus and leaflet. I looked at the possible ideas I came up with and felt that the leaflet idea was a good way of showing a paper-based portfolio for a potential employer or client.

Why a leaflet?

I chose a leaflet as when I send off my CV with covering letter to an employer I can also send a leaflet as this would fit inside the envelope. I feel this is a nice added feature which can show and employer samples of some of my work whilst I create my website which can view more work. In showing an employer samples of my work before an interview should help them understand a little more about my style and how I work.

The creation of the leaflet used the same format as my business card and CV. I designed the leaflet in photoshop and added ruled margins to help me break the leaflet into sections...

I decided that the work I would include for my portfolio should be web based so I included: My latest project, my project I made for my local cricket club and my first ever built website. This would act as the main inner section. I then included a couple of photography images that I was really impressed with which can also show that I can use my own photography to help use in my web sites.

This is how my leaflet looked...