Designing a Digital Portfolio – Chapter 3
This chapter left me confused early on. Was it talking about me building a portfolio around a demographic, or around a possible client, and if the later, why would an individual designer realistically be doing that kind of search?
The more I looked into this though, the more I realized this was another chapter about finding yourself and building your portfolio to maximize your chances of getting a job in a particular field.
This book, like the “How to be” book, stresses the importance of the elusive mistress that is “word of mouth” and your own personal contracts, although in this case in more of a recon sense than the previous book mentioned.
I am beginning to like the way this book thinks. Being a more impersonal person, I prefer to do a lot of my communicating online. I’ve met several good friends this way, so it can’t be all bad. The book seems to think that the web offers too much information, but I believe that a person skilled at using search engines can skim through much of the chutzpah and get to the good stuff quickly, but then again what do I know? Have I written a book? Nope… and this person managed to get us all to read it too.
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