PORTFOLIO DESIGN
- Course
- GRDE404 - PORTFOLIO DESIGN
- Department
- Graphic Design - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 4
- T+P+L
- 2 + 2 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
This course gives practical information pertaining to the area of design. It focuses on relations with clients, legal, financial, administrative problems, office organization and so on. This course serves as a forum to discuss and prepares for the concerns of the professional world by guest lecturers. The emphasis is placed on budgeting skills, portfolio preparation, presentation refinement and professional practices, including ethical issues related to the profession. In this course, the students begin to structure their design projects into a cohesive and formal portfolio of work, preparing them for internship and employment opportunities. In addition it emphases is placed on interviewing skills, portfolio preparation, and presentation refinement. At the end of this course, students expected to be ready to go their first job interview.
PORTFOLIO DESIGN
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Course outcomes
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction and course rules, necessary tools |
| Week 2 | Successful Portfolio Examples |
| Week 3 | Social Media Visibility |
| Week 4 | Social Media Visibility and account creations |
| Week 5 | Writing a CV and starting a Portfolio |
| Week 6 | Personal Logo Design, Brand Identity |
| Week 7 | Building Your Personal Brand |
| Week 8 | MIDTERM |
| Week 9 | MIDTERM |
| Week 10 | How To Create A Portfolio? |
| Week 11 | Printed portfolios and portfolio set examples |
| Week 12 | Portfolio presentation examples |
| Week 13 | Creating Mock-ups for designs |
| Week 14 | Creating a personal blog / website |
| Week 15 | FINAL |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Building Design Portfolios, by Sara Eisenman, Rockport Publishers
- 02 Flaunt, by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin VIt, UnderConsideration
- 03 Masters of Design-Logo & Identity, Sean Adams, Rockport, 2008
- 04 Lecturer's own notes
Learning Outcomes
- L01 Implementation of a portfolio comprised of completed graphic design projects SOLO 4
- L02 Create an effective professional portfolio book & web page SOLO 5
- L03 Design a self-identity packet that includes: business card, stationery, and resume SOLO 4
- L04 Process of job seeking, self-promotion and interviewing skills SOLO 3
- L05 Planning and scheduling your own work flow and time SOLO 4
- L06 Define critiquing skills for yourself and your colleagues SOLO 2
Program Outcomes
- P01 The student chooses the design principles and can match the application
- P02 Students will be able to define national and international values in art and design
- P03 Students will be able to define abstract and concrete design concepts and express them in composition
- P04 The student can adjust the time correctly to complete his / her graphic application
- P05 The student matches the relationship between image and meaning
- P06 Students can express what they see by drawing
- P07 Identifies the traces, aligns, and calculates the hierarchy of typographic elements
- P08 Defines and lists art and design materials
- P09 Expresses an idea, concept or phenomenon visually in a creative way
- P10 Solves the design problems encountered in the process
- P11 Symbolizes concepts, situations, and objects in the visual context
- P12 Develops design projects by recalling basic graphic design principles
- P13 Applies technology effectively in the design process
- P14 Can think critically and question theoretical gains in the context
- P15 Relate the past, present, and future of design
- P16 Can perform original works related to the field and evaluate the results
- P17 Designs and produces different visual areas such as multimedia, advertising graphics, animation, new media, printmaking, and photography
- P18 Improves communication skills for teamwork
- P19 Can effectively discuss, criticize and form theory about the field
- P20 Student can organize paragraphs, single-column, multi-column and modular grids in book and magazine designs
- P21 Can plan collaborations with colleagues in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary environments
- P22 Can associate written texts with visual images
- P23 Can observe and compare in the context of art criticism methods
- P24 Can apply legal regulations and procedures in the field
- P25 Be able to associate written texts with visual images
Po-Lo Matrix
| LO | P01 | P02 | P03 | P04 | P05 | P06 | P07 | P08 | P09 | P10 | P11 | P12 | P13 | P14 | P15 | P16 | P17 | P18 | P19 | P20 | P21 | P22 | P23 | P24 | P25 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| L06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |