Basics
Portfolio is a face of designer. The more impressive your portfolio is, the higher your chances to obtain new clients.
Portfolio includes:
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Information about your experience
Introduce yourself and describe your design skills, your education (an example this course), your interests and approach to the work. -
Interiors
Better if you have a page for every project with a detailed description of an interior, roadmap, photos, client’s preferences, and successful result before/after. Describe what was the goal of a project and what have you done to create the design. -
Add information about your skills and software you use
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Add information about your education and achievements
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Contact info
Put you email, social media, phone number here
Tip: Add only projects you are interested in. If you want to work with a particular style or only with apartments don't add cafe designs to your portfolio.
Visual part
1. Explore portfolios of your favorite designers and create a moodboard. Use interesting elements, but don't copy everything. Create something personal. Or find ready-made template.
2. Try AI-services to find more ideas. Try MidJourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion.
3. Choose uniform template and nice design to present your projects.
4. Create portfolio-book and print it in addition to web resources. 15-20 A4 pages with your best projects will be fine.
5. Create short version in one PDF list for e-mailing.
Where to publish portfolio?
There is some easy portfolio builders. You can create your personal website, landing page or pdf-portfolio and share it with your clients. Combine different resources as personal website and social media.
Design services:
Adobe portfolio
Squarespace
Wix
Issuu
Canva
Interior design resources:
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Room planner
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Social media
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Houzz
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Behance
Publish your best design to My portfolio in Room Planner and attract new clients.
Your published designs will be available on Find Ideas page.
Learn how to use portfolio function:
Where to get more projects to design?
You have a ready project from a previous lesson, but where to get more design tasks?
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Explore Real Estate websites and find houses/apartments where you can see the real floorplans with measurements and create design in Room planner.
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Explore interior design forums and maybe there you'll find project ideas.
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Join Room Planner challenges.
Learn more in the next lesson.